'short' or 'long' vowel sounds-/ ɪ / ----/ i: /-HELP with these vowel sounds-------Common Mistakes | Home
The teacher or student (A) reads a word aloud without telling whether the vowel sound is 'short' (first column) or 'long' (second column). Student (B) says whether it is 'short' or 'long'. A variation is for the teacher or Student (B) to read the same word aloud twice or else the two contrasting words. Student (A) says whether the words are 'the same' or 'different'.
sit----------seat
bid---------bead
bin---------bean
bin---------been
bit---------beat
bit---------beet
bitch-------beech
brim-------bream
chick-------cheek
chip--------cheap
dim--------deem
dip--------deep
fill---------feel
filled-------field
fit----------feat
fit----------feet
flit---------fleet
gin---------jean
grid--------greed
grin--------green
grit--------greet
hid---------heed
hill--------heal
hill--------heel
hip---------heap
ill---------eel
is----------ease
it----------eat
itch--------each
kill--------keel
kin---------keen
knit--------neat
lick--------leak
lid---------lead
lip---------leap
live--------leave
mill--------meal
mitt--------meat
mitt--------meet
nil---------kneel
pick--------peak
pill---------peal
pill---------peel
pip---------peep
pit---------peat
pitch-------peach
rich--------reach
rick--------reek
rid---------read
rim---------ream
rip---------reap
risen-------reason
shin--------sheen
ship--------sheep
sick--------seek
sin---------scene
sip---------seep
sit---------seat
six--------seeks
slick-------sleek
slip--------sleep
slipper-----sleeper
slips-------sleeps
still--------steal
still--------steel
tick--------teak
till---------teal
trickle------treacle
whiz--------wheeze
wick--------weak
wick--------week
will---------we’ll
will---------wheel
wit---------wheat