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:
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