Session eight

1. American English Vowels

2. Vowel EE

3. Vowel I

本期学习：

1.简介美音中的元音

2.元音 EE 和 I

首先定义下什么是元音：

元音(vowel)：是音素的一种，与辅音相对。元音是在发音过程中由气流通过口腔而不受阻碍发出的音。

The best way to learn American vowels is by Ear Training. Listen carefully and repeat.

练习元音先要听，反复的听，再模仿训练。

Front Vowels: (From high to low)

前元音：下面五个前元音依次由高到低（嘴型呈扁平，下颚逐渐打开，舌头距上腭距离逐渐拉开）。如高元音Tree，嘴型扁平，以舌的一部分抵住上硬腭发出， 低元音 Hat 舌头降到最低，放平，口腔敞开发出。

EE as in Heat

I as in Hit

AE as in Hate

EH as in Het (nonsense word)

A as in Hat

Back Vowels: (From high to low)

后元音：发音时，舌根部隆起贴进软腭进行发音

下面五个后元音由高到底，下颚逐渐张开。而且这五个音是圆唇元音，发音时嘴型是圆的。

OO as in Boot

U as in Book

OW as in Boat

AW as in Bought

AH as in Bot (nonsense word 无意义的单词)

Comparing Heat (EE) and Hit (I) 这节主要练习 EE 和I

Remember: Heat is high. Hit is lower.

记住： EE 音是高元音，Ｉ相对要低。

Heat – Hit

Keen – Kin

Deal – Dill

Seek – Sick

Seen – Sin

Reap – Rip

Teal - Till

Bean –Been (Bean is high. I ate a bean. Been is low. I have been here.)

EE Vowel Sound

Remember, smile and think high.

记住，发音是嘴型是扁平的，就好像你微笑一样，而且EE是高元音。

See

Me

Each

Even

Key

Green

Tree

Very

Happy

Softly

Mary

Busy

Finally

Country

EE Practice

Speeding on the Freeway

Happily eating cheese

He and She

Skiing very Rapidly

She sees a monkey eating honey.

We see a pony stealing money.

Who can he see?

It must be me!

I Vowel Sound

Bit

Bill

Lift

Fizz

Kitchen

Build

Bigger

Chimp

Fifth

Listen

Business

Fist

Display

Filming

Live

Fish

Discuss

Fig

Fifty

Been

EE and I Practice (All EE sounds are underlined.)

The beans have been cooking since six o’clock.

Sit in that seat by the window.

We ate our meal, by the mill.

The seal will live in the ocean.

Tim’s team grinned after seeing the green field.

Pip and Pete shipped the sheep cheaply.

Those bins are for Bill’s beans.

Does Jim still steal Jill’s jeans?

The girls put concrete on Jill’s sneakers.

Pick cherries at their peak or you will eat the pits.