Answer — Exercise 1
11 - Pronunciation·New Headway Upper-Intermediate - Workbook
Question
There are several different ways of pronouncing the spelling ea. Look at the examples in the chart below and put the words into the correct column.
Answer
- /e/ = bread, jealous, leapt, breath, thread, breadth, deaf, health, meant, death, lead (n), weapon, breakfast
- /iː/ = meat, beast, heal, lead (v), breathe, reason, scream, cheat, leap, tea, beans
- /ɪə/ = fear, dear, hear, clear, tear (n), beard, theatre, weary, gear
- /eə/ = wear, swear, tear (v), bear, pear
- /eɪ/ = break, steak, great
- /ɜː/ = learn, pearl, earth, search
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