Short A
Sound
æ (cat, fat)
English Pronunciation, Lesson 11
The short A sound (IPA symbol: æ) can be found in English words such as:
fat, cat, dad, back, fast, animal.
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Say these words out loud (short A sound is bold):
1) fat
2) cat
3) rat
4) dad
5) add
6) mad
7) glad
8) exam
9) back
10) marriage
11) have
12) class
13) fast
14) after
15) am
16) animal
17) fast
18) last
Now say these sentences out loud (short A sound is bold):
1) The fat cat is chasing after the rat.
2) Dad is coming back after the party.
3) I am glad to finish this exam.
4) His first marriage made him mad. His second marriage were not so bad.
5) They have ten farm animals.
7) This class is progressing really fast.
8) The last hat I have left is black.
9) The cat and the rat are attacking a hat.
10) She has an orange bag.
Have you finished them all? Cool!
Well done! You have completed the short A sound lesson.
Let's move on...
Your next lesson: Lesson 12, UH Sound (but, cup)
List of Lessons
Lesson 01: International
Phonetic Alphabet (IPA)
Lesson 02: Word
Stress and Syllables
Lesson 03: Long E
sound (meet,
see)
Lesson 04: Short I
Sound (sit,
hit)
Lesson 05: UH Sound
(put, foot)
Lesson 06:
OO Sound (moon,
blue)
Lesson 07: Short E
sound (pen, bed)
Lesson 08: Schwa
Sound (the, about)
Lesson 09: UR Sound (turn, learn)
Lesson 10: OH Sound (four, store)
Lesson 11: Short A
Sound (cat, fat)
Lesson 12: UH Sound (but, luck)
Lesson 13: Soft A
Sound (arm, father)
Lesson 14: Long O
Sound (boat,
know)
Lesson 15: Long A
Sound (say, pain, make)
Lesson 16: Short O
Sound (not, off, socks)
Lesson 17: Diphthong
(a combination of two vowel sounds)
Lesson 18: P Sound
(cup, punch, pull) and B sound (cub, bunch, bull)
Lesson 19: The Nasal
Sounds (M, N, NG)
Lesson 20: F Sound (four, lift, graph, tough) and V Sound (love, knives, grave, vine)
Lesson 21: W Sound (wow, quit, where)
Lesson 22: R Sound (red, sorry, write)
Lesson 23: H Sound (he, behind, who)
Lesson 24: T Sound (top, it, later) and D Sound (do, had, made)
Lesson 25: S Sound (sit, box, cats) and Z Sound (zip, buzz, boys)
Lesson 26: K Sound (kid, talk, black) and G Sound (go, big, dog)
Lesson 27: L Sound:
Light L & Dark L (tall,
like, English)
Lesson 28: Y
Consonant Sound (yes,
you, beyond)
Lesson 29: CH Sound (China, century, watch) and J Sound (Germany, educate , judge)
Lesson 30: TH
Consonant Sounds – voiced TH sound (the,
father, them) and voiceless
(unvoiced) TH sound (think,
birthday, south)
Lesson 31: SH
(shop, chef, special) and ZH (usual, massage, Asia)
Lesson 32: T and TT Sounds (true T sound, D sound, stop sound, silent T)
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