Pronunciation i

Pronunciation

Silvia Beatriz Tato Zaldivar

• Pronunciation is the way in which we make the sound of words.

• To change the sound that we are making, we mainly use the muscles of our mouth, tongue and lips to control the shape of our mouth and the flow of air.

sow /sɔ: saw /soʊ/ sew /oʊ/

What is pronunciation?

What do we call the different words with the same pronunciation?

/mi:t/ /mi:t/

Homophones

/tu:/

Bear /beəʳ/ Bare / beəʳ/

HeterographsBuy /baɪ/Bye /baɪ/

Heterograph: A word having the same pronunciation of another word but different spelling

Homograph: a word with the same

pronunciation and the same spelling

but different meaning.

Homograph and homonyms

Heteronyms with the same spelling and

different pronunciation words

Heteronyms

Riddle:

Why was the ant confused?

????

Because all her uncles were ants

Aunt /ɑ:nt/

Ant /ænt/

Riddle:If four couples went to a restaurant how many people dined

Eight people ate

Riddle: If they are not here, where are they?

They’re there

Riddle:

What time period sounds like it doesn’t

have strenght?A week

Riddle:How does a moose starts a letter to his

cousin?

Dear deer: