The sound [i] and [I]

Production of the sound

Spread the lips in a smiling position, arching the tongue almost reaching the roof of the mouth. The upper and the lower
teeth are almost touching. Both the lips and the tongue are tense. A long sound is breathed out of the mouth. Holding the
vowel sound for a longer duration is an essential part of the sound.
1. The following words differ in spelling but the underlined letters are pronounced the same way. Take note
of your lip formation upon production of this sound.

me amoeba believe league

suite ceiling convenient unique
clique debris police ravine
Caesar clich people speech
precinct exterior obsolete real
credence sequence season even
magazine encyclopedia diesel leave
quay week meter teen
clean machine priest frequent
2. Phrases
Leave the suite a unique meter clique or league
Clean the debris the police precinct a teen magazine

3. Word Contrast
lead lid steal still seek sick
reach rich seal sill leap lip
deed did bean been ream rim
heel hill least list seen sin
read rid speech spits eat it
cheap chip seat sit weak wick
feel fill bead bid team Tim
ease is each itch feat fit
feet fit beach bitch leave live
neat knit greet grit

4. Sentences
Blend your words. Take note of the stressed and the unstressed words. Use the speed of the ordinary normal conversation.

a. A unique stud bhj

b. y of the amoeba is found in the encyclopedia.
c. A clean suite awaits the members of the police baseball team.
d. The priest together with the people cleaned the debris.
e. ?The exterior of the machine had a real diesel.
f. The teen magazine will come out this week.

5. Tongue Twister

THE TRAGEDY OF PETES NIECE

One day, Petes niece went to the mountain peak, picked a deep pit, dipped herself under thick mud then jumped
unto the pitch of darkness where hill and hell meet. Her death sounded wicked for the weak-hearted people like
Pete. Investigation revealed that Petes niece went mad because she mills all day and skips meals. People will
surely miss her specially her feet fit for running.

Petes niece love to eat seed coated with thick cheese while she sits on a heated bench and sings with her little
string. This kid who once bit the cheek of a hot chick because she thought she was seeing a roasted chicken
also licked the leaking faucet because she thought she had a beak and was drinking from a river. Pete has even
seen his niece peel sleeping pills because she wanted to use the powder.

6. Enunciation Drill

We feel like heaving deep sighs or weeping or screaming and immediately pleading, Please repeat
when we hear open es so meanly treated the reader who reads, He bit the drum, defeats the meaning
of speech fiercely. It would nearly seem meet, that he who reads bit, for beat, it for eat, live
for leave be seized as thief or at least a miscreant, for breach of the peace and for maltreating speech.
We could keep him behind steel bars feed him no meat merely clean water and cheap eatables and
deprive him of freedom of speech.
-Haustmann