Unit 2. Plane, Plan.

The vowel sounds /ei/ and /æ/

Unit 2; Part A

When you say the letters of the alphabet, A has the long vowel sound/ei/. You hear this sound in the word plane.
But the letter A is alsopronounced as the short vowel sound /æ/, as in the word plan.

Listen to the sound /ei/ on its own.
Look at the mouth diagram to see how to make this long vowel sound.

Listen to the target sound /ei/ in the words below and compare it with the words on each side.

meat     mate     met
come    came    calm
white    wait      wet
buy       bay       boy

Listen and repeat these examples of the target sound.

         play    played    plate
          grey    grey       great
          аim     age        eight

The rain in Spain falls mainly on the plain

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Unit 2; Part B

Listen to the sound /æ/.
Look at the mouth diagram to see how to make this short vowel sound.

Listen to the target sound /æ/ in the words and compare it with the words on each side.

mud    mad     made
sing    sang    sung
pen     pan      pain
hot      hat      heart

The fat cat sat on the man's black hat

Listen and repeat these examples of the target sound.

         bank    beg       back
         can      cash    catch
         ham     has       hat

Important for listening!
In most accents, the following words have the vowel /æ/: ask dancecastle bath fast. But in South East England, speakers change the A soundin words such as these to /a:/. (For more about /a:/ see Unit 14.)

Unit 2; Part C

Spelling

	frequently
/ei/	*A-E (mate), AY (say), EY(grey), El (eight), Al (wait). EA (great)*
/æ/	A but note that if there is an R after the A (and the R does not have avowel sound after it), A has a different pronunciation, for examplearm: see Unit 14.

Exercises

1 Write words for the things in the picture in the correct part of the table.

Write words for the things in the picture in the correct part of the table. Key
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/ei/

/æ/

cake

apple

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2 Make another word with the same consonant sounds

These words all contain the vowel sound /æ/. Make another word with the same consonant sounds, but changing the vowel sound to /ei/.
Example:

pan
1    at
2    mad
3    man

pain

plan
4    tap
5    ran
6    hat

plane

3 Listen and circle the word with a different vowel sound.

Listen and circle the word with a different vowel sound.
Example: black ~~want~~ mad   hand
1    sad    bag    salt    tap
2    far   fat   map   add
3    watch   catch   match    land
4    rain    said    fail    train
5    case   lake   name   care
6    space   change   plate   square
7    break    great    heat    weight

Then listen again and check.

4 Listen and circle the word you hear

Listen and circle the word you hear.
1    Man or men?    Did you see the man / men?
2    Cap or cup?    Have you seen my cap / cup?
3    Hat or heart?    She put her hand on her hat / heart.
4    Pain or pen?    I've got a pain / pen in my hand.
5    Hay or hair?   There are bugs in this hay / hair.

Follow up: Record yourself saying the sentencesin 4, choosing one of the two words. Make a note of which words yousay. Then listen to your recording in about two weeks. Is it clearwhich words you said?

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