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How to pronounce The Voiceless Bilabial Stop [p]
Links to Phonetics: the sound of American English (発音の仕方をこちらのリンクから確認)
Pink: relatively lower priorities
Red: High priorities
Let's practice
Words
paint
pool
pepper
cup
cop
Other word examples
Directions: Read the following words, phrases, sentences and tongue twisters correctly
saying the voiceless bilabial stop [p] accurately and distinctly.
Initial
pea, peace, pin, pit, pie, pay, page, person, part, peck, picture, post, pull, push
Medial
appear, apart, repay, puppy, report, repair, supper, pepper, copy, chapel, support
Final
ape, stamp, stoop, pipe, map, tap, type, hip, lip, ship, cop, cap, cup, soap, soup, rope
Phrases
puppy in the shop refund slip
top of the page political prisoner
paddle-shaped soup for supper
paint a picture mop up
pocket flap captain's ship
Sentences
1. Pull the poor puppy from that deep pool.
2. Pass those pieces of paper and open your books.
3. His impeachment before the proper tribunal was repealed.
4. In hopeless despair, Peter appealed to his captors for his release.
5. Apart from the report, Penny gave an inspiring pep talk.
Tongue Twisters
1. Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers.
Did Peter Piper pick a peck of pickled peppers?
If Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers,
where's the peck of pickled peppers Peter Piper picked?
2. If Pickford's packers packed a packet of crisps would the packet of crisps that Pickford's packers packed survive for two and a half years?
Exercise 1: Pictures
Instructions: Identify the following pictures with the [p] sound.
Exercise 2: Vocabulary Test
Test I
Instructions: Underline the correct word that corresponds to the sentence.
1. Her face became_______(tail, pale, pile) when her name was called.
2. Please be________(pasted, posted) for any reminders in the bulletin board.
3. I want to be________(prased, praised, pray) for the way I dressed up tonight.
4. Our teacher reads the story in a slow________(face, pace).
5. I have to work hard or else I will become______(poor, four,pore)
Test II
Match the words in column A with the meanings in column B.
A B
1.pressure a.shed tears because of sadness, rage, or pain
2.popular b.proper respect
3.peer c.the act of pressing
4.sip d.a small drink
5.weep e.regarded with great favour, approval, or affection especially by the general public
f. a person who is of equal standing with another in a group
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. I can't remember what happened in my_______(fast, past).
2. The emcee should_____(stop, stuff) the________(fragile, pageant)
3. I don't want to see him in______(pain, paint).
4. My husband gave me this cat as my_______(pet, fat, faith).
5. She does not like to______(for, pore, pour) hot water on his______(cup, cuff).
Exercise 3: Article reading
Instructions: Read the article correctly saying the [p] sound accurately and underline
the words with the [p]sound. Then answer the following questions.
STORY OF A PRETTY WOMAN
A pretty woman was serving a life sentence in prison. Angry and resentful about her situation, she had decided that she would rather die than to live another year in prison. Over the years she had become good friends with one of the prison caretakers.
His job, among others, was to bury those prisoners who died in a graveyard just outside the prison walls. When a prisoner died, the caretaker rang a bell, which was heard by everyone. The caretaker then got the body and put it in a casket.
Next, he entered his office to fill out the death certificate before returning to the casket to nail the lid shut. Finally, he put the casket on a wagon to take it to the graveyard and bury it.
Knowing this routine, the woman devised an escape plan and shared it with the caretaker. The next time the bell rang, the woman would leave her cell and sneak into the dark room where the coffins were kept.
She would slip into the coffin with the dead body while the caretaker was filling out the death certificate. When the care- taker returned, he would nail the lid shut and take the coffin outside the prison with the woman in the coffin along with the dead body. He would then bury the coffin.
The woman knew there would be enough air for her to breathe until later in the evening when the caretaker would return to the graveyard under the cover of darkness, dig up the coffin, open it, and set her free.
The caretaker was reluctant to go along with this plan, but since he and the woman had become good friends over the years, he agreed to do it. The woman waited several weeks before some- one in the prison died.
She was asleep in her cell when she heard the death bell ring. She got up, picked the lock of her cell, and slowly walked down the hallway. She was nearly caught a couple of times. Her heart was beating fast.
She opened the door to the darkened room where the coffins were kept. Quietly in the dark, she found the coffin that contained the dead body, carefully climbed into the coffin and pulled the lid shut to wait for the caretaker to come and nail the lid shut.
Soon she heard footsteps and the pounding of the hammer and nails. Even though she was very uncomfortable in the coffin with the dead body, she knew that with each nail she was one step closer to freedom.
The coffin was lifted onto the wagon and taken outside to the graveyard. She could feel the coffin being lowered into the ground. She didn't make a sound as the coffin hit the bottom of the grave with a thud.
Finally she heard the dirt dropping onto the top of the wooden coffin, and she knew that it was only a matter of time until she would be free at last. After several minutes of absolute silence, she began to laugh. She was free! She was free !!!!!!!!!!
Feeling curious, she decided to light a match to find out the identity of the dead prisoner beside her. To her horror, she discovered that she was lying next to the dead caretaker.
Questions:
1. Is it hard for the woman to serve a life sentence in the prison? Why?
2. What was the woman's plan to escape from imprisonment?
3. What is the lesson or moral in the story?
Exercise 4: Role Play (Picture Descriptions)
