A quiz to see how much my students have learnt from my pronunciation lessons. They should work in two teams and discuss their answers as a team.

1. Pronunciation
quiz

2. RULES
- teams take it in turn to answer
points
- 2 points for a correct answer
- 1 point for a partially correct answer
challenging
- if you think the other team has given a bad
answer, you can challenge
- a correct challenge gets 4 points
- an incorrect challenge gets -2 points
- a challenge doesn’t change the order of turns

3. PART 1
ə and ɪ
find all the examples of schwa
and short ‘i’ in these words

4. corruption

5. avoidance

6. cupboard

7. blizzard

8. hypercorrection

9. imperturbable

10. PART 2
stress
where is the stress
in these words

11. trident

12. towards

13. record (n.)

14. expert

15. express

16. produce (v.)

17. infiltration

18. financier

19. foreseeable

20. incorrect

21. lemonade

22. occasionally

23. PART 3
weak forms
find the word with a weak form
1st point for the word
2nd point for the vowel sound

24. here
their
hair
there

25. were
wear
war
where

26. barn
been
born
bean

27. seat
sit
it
eat

28. mad
sad
had
bad

29. far
fir
for
fur

30. PART 4
bitches and bastards
can you pronounce
these irregular words

31. rhythm

32. women

33. swordsman

34. recipe

35. promise

36. heartfelt

37. PART 6
depistaggi
can you pronounce these
1st point for the correct stress
2nd point for unstressed syllables

38. management

39. performance

40. report

41. remainder

42. fruit

43. size

44. PART 5
everything
can you pronounce these
1st point for the correct stress
2nd point for unstressed syllables

45. emblematic

46. thermometer

47. specialisation

48. secretary

49. questionnaire

50. forensic

51. disappearing

52. discriminatory

53. stationary

54. relationship

55. compulsory

56. mandatory

57. paradoxically

58. haemorrhage

59. engineering

60. treachery

61. scatological

62. enormously

63. illuminating

64. literature

65. 10 bonus points for the first
team to solve this puzzle:

66. how do you pronounce
ghoti
use these words to help you:
“Enough women in the nation.”