Uk English Phonemic Chart
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Review of the ‘British Council – Phonemic Chart – TeachingEnglish’ noting inconsistency of rationale and specific errors (by Debbie Hepplewhite 29
July 2012)
Comment [D1]: I have previously
emailed the contact address for this
The chart below is a copy of the symbols and word examples of the British Council chart and is not the original chart.
resource about the errors on the chart –
but there was no take‐up of this
Phonemic chart
information.
Submitted by TE Editor on 15 December, 2012 – 11:17
This is the new British Council phonemic chart. Help your students hear the sounds of English by clicking on the symbols below. Click on the top
right hand corner of each symbol to hear the sample words including the sounds.
BRITISH
PHONEMIC CHART TeachingEnglish
Comment [D2]: In the words ‘year’ and
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‘beer’, the letter ‘r’ needs to be included in
ɪ
ʊ
ɪə
vowels
i:
u:
diphthongs
eə
the grapheme – to be the same as in the
seat
sit
good
food
year
chair
word ‘ear’.
green
grin
foot
rule
beer
where
Comment [D3]: The ‘o’ in ‘observer’ is
tree
fish
pull
shoe
ear
there
likely to be pronounced as /o/ rather than
ə
ɜ:
ɔ:
əʊ
a schwa – this is probably not a good
e
aʊ
example.
head
teacher
girl
walk
joke
vow
Comment [D4]: In the words ‘door’ and
bet
observer
nurse
door
vote
lounge
‘four’, the letter ‘r’ needs to be included in
said
about
earth
four
throw
out
the grapheme – thus ‘oor’ and ‘our’ as
ʌ
ɑ:
ɒ
ɔɪ
code for the /or/ sound.
æ
eɪ
aɪ
had
cup
heart
hot
they
thigh
joy
Comment [D5]: Many people would
pronounce the letter ‘a’ as /a/ in the word
lamb
love
dark
stop
bathe
dice
noise
‘fast’. A better example would be ‘father’
apple
money
fast
want
way
my
choice
where many people would pronounce the
letter ‘a’ as /ar/.
θ
ʃ
consonants
p
f
t
tʃ
s
k
Comment [D8]: In the word ‘noise’, the
earth
teacher
shoe
grapheme ‘se’ is code for the /z/ sound –
pull
four
tree
stop
walk
not just the letter ‘s’. It is also surprising
thigh
chair
fish
stop
food
stop
sit
dark
that there is no word example with the
throw
choice
sure
apple
fish
want
fast
cup
letter ‘z’ as code for the /z/ sound!
ʒ
b
v
d
ð
dʒ
z
g
Comment [D6]: In the word ‘bathe’, the
they
joke
casual
grapheme ‘the’ is code for the voiced /th/.
bet
observer
door
observer
grin
there
joy
measure
Comment [D7]: In the word ‘lounge’,
about
vow
food
noise
green
the grapheme ‘ge’ is code for the /j/ sound
beer
vote
said
bathe
lounge
president
pleasure
girl
– not just the letter ‘g’.
ŋ
h
m
n
r
l
w
j
Comment [D9]: In the word ‘english’,
sing
hot
money
grin
rule
pull
want
year
the first letter should be a capital E, and
head
lamb
green
english
grin
love
way
yes
the letter ‘n’ is code for the /ng/ sound –
drank
not the letters ‘ng’.
heart
my
nurse
tree
rule
where
yellow
Comment [D10]: With the rationale
About the chart
shown earlier in the chart where there is
Pure vowels are arranged the same way as in the IPA chart: according to mouth shape (left to right, lips wide/round – top to bottom, jaw closed/open).
no use of ‘split digraphs’ such as o‐e in
Diphthongs are grouped in rows according to their second sound.
‘joke’ and ‘vote’, then the grapheme ‘le’
should be code for the /l/ sound – not just
The original chart can be found at:
the letter ‘l’ ‐ to be consistent.
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