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A. Listen and Speak

Vowels /i:/ and /I/

Task 1. Your teacher will say these pairs of words. Listen and repeat.
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feel fill

heat hit
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sleep slip

green grin

What difference in sound were you able to listen to between the two
words in each pair? Yes, the sounds are different. The first word in each
pair has a long vowel sound. The second has a short vowel sound. These
vowel sounds are phonetically represented as /i:/ and /ɪ/ respectively.

Task 2. Your teacher will say these words. Listen and write them in two
different columns. A few examples are given :

lead, seek, clean, fit, mist,
kit, priest, read, grin, speed,
mix, meet, breed, sheet,
win, mean, spit, chit, dream,
fees, heed, lean, trim, hid.

words with /i:/ words with /ɪ/
eg: mean eg: spit
priest win

B. spoken English

Greeting :
Steps: (To be followed for each piece of conversation)

1. Listen to your teacher reading the conversation.
2. Read it and practise speech .
3. Practise it with your partner/partners, taking notes.

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