Unit_v09_[i]_fib

How to pronounce The Lower High Front Vowel _[i]_

From the link below, Please choose

Vowel -> Monophthongs -> Front

Links to Phonetics: the sound of American English (発音の仕方をこちらから確認)

Let's practice

Words

Indian

fist

fish

shrimps

ink

Other word examples

Directions: Read the following words, phrases, sentences and tongue twisters correctly saying the low

front vowel _[i]_ accurately and distinctly.

Initial

it,is,ill,itch,ink,image,impact,idiot,income,if,inn,English,event

Medial

tin,kin,pitch,bill,list,lick,miss,sin,pick,dip,mist,wish,spin,grill

Final

city,galley,guilty,daisy,safari,daily,honey,clarity,country,choppy,eerie,

Phrases

deeply miss him bussiness woman

lid in the circuit pick the dish

country dairy farm English biscuits

Sentences

1. The children deeply miss him.

2. Dick brought bottles of dill pickles.

3. The circuit breaker is an automatic switch for overloaded current.

4. Pick that loaded disk.

5. The milk fats form into an emulsion.

Tongue Twisters

1.The sixth sick sheik's sixth sheep's sick.

2.The owner of the inside inn was inside his inside inn with his inside outside his inside inn.

EXERCISE 1: PICTURES

Instructions: Identify the following pictures with the [i] sound.

EXERCISE 2: VOCABULARY TEST

Test I

Instructions: Underline the correct word that corresponds to the sentence.

1. With a _______ (flock, flack, flick) of the wand, the stone turned into a diamond.

2. Below the _______ (abyss, abas, abies) was a magical jungle inhabited by _______ (imps, amps, umps).

3. Finally he figured out the _______ (track, trick, truck) played on him.

4. Only the king's _______ (kins, kens, koans) were allowed to join the party.

5. Hot water will _______ (shrunk, shrank, shrink) the sweater.

Test II

Instructions: Match the words in column A with its meanings in column B.

A B

1. quicksand a. a severe shortage of food resulting in violent hunger and starvation and death

2. vicinity b. a pit filled with loose wet sand into which objects are sucked down

3. toxin c. a public institution for the care of orphans

4. orphanage d. ready to fall asleep

5. famine e. an act punishable by law

f. a surrounding or nearby region

g. a poisonous substance

Test III

Listening Test

Instructions: Listen carefully as the teacher reads series of sentences.

Fill in the blanks the appropriate word to complete the sentence.

1. Below the _______ (abyss, abas, abies) was a magical jungle inhabited by _______ (imps, amps, umps).

2. Kicking a _______ (tan, tin, ton) can is not a good idea, Gary's _______ (sheen, shin) got wounded.

3. When _______ (deed, did) your puppy _______ (licked, leaked) your hand?

4. Assassins wanted to _______ (kill, keel) the _______ (reach, rich) young man.

5. As long as the clock is still _______ (taking, ticking) one should _______ (live, leave) life to the fullest.

Exercise 3: Article reading

Instructions: Read the article correctly saying the _[i]_ sound accurately. Then answer the following questions.

I Wanted To Change The World

By Unknown Monk, 1100 A.D.

When I was a young man, I wanted to change the world.

I found it was difficult to change the world, so I tried to change my nation.

When I found I couldn't change the nation, I began to focus on my town. I couldn't change the town and as an older man, I tried to change my family.

Now, as an old man, I realize the only thing I can change is myself, and suddenly I realize that if long ago I had changed myself, I could have made an impact on my family. My family and I could have made an impact on our town. Their impact could have changed the nation and I could indeed have changed the world."

Food For Thought:

"After you've done a thing the same way for two years, look it over carefully. After five years, look at it with suspicion. And after ten years, throw it away and start all over. " Alfred Edward Perlman

"All changes, even the most longed for, have their melancholy; for what we leave behind us is a part of ourselves; we must die to one life before we can enter another." Anatole France

"Growth is the only evidence of life." John Henry Newman

"If nothing ever changed, there'd be no butterflies." Author Unknown

"When we are no longer able to change a situation, we are challenged to change ourselves." Victor Frankl

Exercise 4: Make a story about Paris.