一、《高考3500词汇：分级分类学习册》第3、4课
点击声音图标可跟读单词：
二、前元音的拼读规则
中元音、前元音和后元音都是单元音，其发音特点如本文附图一所示：
这是一张单元音发音舌位和双唇开合程度示意图，舌前部发音的单元音叫前元音，舌中部发音的单元音叫中元音，舌后部发音的单元音叫后元音。发前元音时双唇开口从小到大依次张开，发后元音时双唇开口从大到小依次合拢，发中元音时双唇开口程度适中。请点击视频跟读前元音和后元音的拼读规则。
1. 前元音/ i /, 发音要领: 舌尖抵下齿，先作发/ i / 的姿势，舌前部稍稍下降，发短音。元音字母i 重读闭音节中读 / i/；元音字母 e, i在非重读音节中有时读 / i /。
1) Tim and Jim
Tim's as thin as a pin,
Jim's as fat as a tin.
The same house they live in,
To each other they are kin.
2) Get Ready
Are you ready? No, I'm sorry.
Is she ready? No, she's busy.
Let's hurry, get everything ready.
3) Bill had a billboard, and Bill also has a board bill. The board bill bored Bill, so Bill sold the billboard to pay his board bill. After Bill sold his billboard to pay his board bill, the board bill no longer bored Bill.
2. 前元音/ i: /, 发音要领: 舌端抵下齿，舌前部抬高，双唇扁平，发长音。元音字母 e 在重读开音节中读 / i: /; 有时ee, ea, ie 组合读 / i: /。
1) A Little Bee
You know me, I'm a little bee,
From the west to east you can see.
When you eat sweets with tea,
Don't forget me, don't forget me.
2) Meet the Queen
“Meet the queen on your knee,”
She again asked me.
“Invite her to tea,
Or go to see the sea by sea.”
3) Some teachers' teaching pleases some people, but other people feel the same teaching isn't pleasing.
4) It isn't easy to please all people but teasing the teacher won't please the teacher and each teacher needs to be free to teach as he pleases.
3. 前元音/ e /, 发音要领: 舌端抵下齿，舌前部稍抬起，唇形扁平。元音字母 e 在重读闭音节中读 / e /; 个别含 e 有字母组合读 / e /。
1) There Goes the Bell
There goes the bell,
Class begins it tells.
Each other we help,
Work hard and study well.
2) Good, Better, Best
Good, better, best,
Never let it rest.
Until good is better,
And better is best.
3) Where Is Best
Where is best,
I'll go there for a rest.
But dear me, don't forget,
“East or west, home is best.”
4) The eggs he sells every day are better than every body else sells.
5) Ten wealthy men met twelve beggars and fed them with fresh eggs and bread.
在讲后元音之前，先讲完第4个前元音/ 倒e e /。
4. 第4个前元音/ 倒e e /, 俗称梅花音，请原谅只有图片格式才能正确显示。
发音要领：舌端抵下齿，舌前部稍高，双唇扁平，开口在前元音中最大，发音时喉头部肌肉紧张。
元音字母 a 在重读闭音节中读 / 倒e e /。
1) Look at the Hat
Look at the hat,
Look at the cap.
Oh, a cat is in the hat,
A rat is in the cap.
How can the cat catch the rat?
It's too bad, too bad.
2) Cat and Rat
A bad rat ragged a fat rat,
While the cat had a nap under a black hat.
Dad asked the lad to pat the cat on the head,
The sad cat was glad to catch the mad rat.
3) How many cans can a canner can if a canner can can cans?
4) A canner can can as many cans as a canner can if a canner can can cans.
三、后元音的拼读规则 后元音总的发音特点是舌后部隆起，开口程度依次从大到小。
1. 后元音/ a: /(原谅标记不规范)
字母ar组合通常读/ a: /， 如：arm, army, art, article, artist, car, card, dark, farm, parking, farmer, garden
有的au组合也读/ a: /，如：aunt, laugh, laughter
2. 后元音/反c长音/, 很多a, o, u字母组合读/反c长音/。
au: astronaut, author, autumn, cause, daughter, fault, launch, pause;
al: ballroom, all, ball, call, chalk, fall, hall, small, talk, tall, walk, wall;
augh: daughter, caught, taught, granddaughter ;
aw: awful, draw, law, award, claw, lawyer, straw, yawn, dawn, awesome;
ar: quarter, award, toward(s), war, warm, reward, warmth, ward, warn;
or: formal, enforce, afford, airport, informal, born, corn, corner 。
3. 后元音/反c短音/, 发音要领：双唇稍收圆，但不要突出，舌后部稍抬高。元音字母 o 在重读闭音节中读 /反c短音/; 字 母 a组合有时读/反c短音/。
1）Tom Lost His Job
Tom lost his job,
He had to sell his watch.
At the pawnshop he stopped,
He didn’t know
How much it would cost.
2）It's a cock
It's a cock,
Standing on a rock,
Wearing a sock,
And looking at a clock.
3) The doctor's daughter knocked at the locked door.
4) I put the watch in my pocket to take it to the watch shop because it stopped.
4. 后元音/ u: /,
oo: school, hoof, tattoo, cartoon, choose, moon, noodle, noon, pool;
ew: drew, grew, jewel(le)ry, chew, crew, brewery, blew, flew, threw;
5. 后元音/ u /
oo: good, book, cook, foot, look, wood, goods, wool, hook;
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