Poem of English Pronunciation

Part 1) Dearest creature in creation, Study English pronunciation. I will teach you in my verse Sounds like corpse, corps, horse, and worse. I will keep you, Suzy, busy, Make your head with heat grow dizzy. Tear in eye, your dress will tear. So shall I! Oh hear my prayer. Part 2) Just compare heart, beard, and heard, Dies and diet, lord and word, Sword and sward, retain and Britain. Now I surely will not plague you With such words as plaque and ague. But be careful how you speak: Say break and steak, but bleak and streak; Cloven, oven, how and low, Script, receipt, show, poem, and toe.

Part 3) Billet does not rhyme with ballet, Bouquet, wallet, mallet, chalet. Blood and flood are not like food, Nor is mould like should and would. Viscous, viscount, load and broad, Toward, to forward, to reward. And your pronunciation's OK When you correctly say croquet, Rounded, wounded, grieve and sieve, Friend and fiend, alive and live. Part 4) Ivy, privy, famous; clamour And enamour rhymes with hammer. River, rival, tomb, bomb, comb, Doll and roll and some and home. Stranger does not rhyme with anger, Neither does devour with clangour. Souls but foul, haunt but aunt, Font, front, wont, want, grand, and grant, Shoes, goes, does. Now first say finger, And then singer, ginger, linger, Real, zeal, mauve, gauze, gouge and gauge, Marriage, foliage, mirage, and age.

Part 5) Query does not rhyme with very, Nor does fury sound like bury. Dost, lost, post and doth, cloth, loth. Job, nob, bosom, transom, oath. Though the differences seem little, We say actual but victual. Refer does not rhyme with deafer. Foeffer does, and zephyr, heifer. Mint, pint, senate and sedate; Dull, bull, and George ate late. Scenic, Arabic, Pacific, Science, conscience, scientific. Part 6) Liberty, library, heave and heaven, Rachel, ache, moustache, eleven. We say hallowed, but allowed, People, leopard, towed, but vowed. Mark the differences, moreover, Between mover, cover, clover; Leeches, breeches, wise, precise, Chalice, but police and lice; Camel, constable, unstable, Principle, disciple, label.

Part 7) Petal, panel, and canal, Wait, surprise, plait, promise, pal. Worm and storm, chaise, chaos, chair, Senator, spectator, mayor. Tour, but our and succour, four. Gas, alas, and Arkansas. Sea, idea, Korea, area, Psalm, Maria, but malaria. Youth, south, southern, cleanse and clean. Doctrine, turpentine, marine. Part 8) Compare alien with Italian, Dandelion and battalion. Sally with ally, yea, ye, Eye, I, ay, aye, whey, and key. Say aver, but ever, fever, Neither, leisure, skein, deceiver. Heron, granary, canary. Crevice and device and aerie.

Part 9) Face, but preface, not efface. Phlegm, phlegmatic, ass, glass, bass. Large, but target, gin, give, verging, Ought, out, joust and scour, scourging. Ear, but earn and wear and tear Do not rhyme with here but ere. Seven is right, but so is even, Hyphen, roughen, nephew Stephen, Monkey, donkey, Turk and jerk, Ask, grasp, wasp, and cork and work.

Part 10) Pronunciation -- think of Psyche! Is a paling stout and spikey? Won't it make you lose your wits, Writing groats and saying grits? It's a dark abyss or tunnel: Strewn with stones, stowed, solace, gunwale, Islington and Isle of Wight, Housewife, verdict and indict. Finally, which rhymes with enough? Though, through, plough, or dough, or cough? Hiccough has the sound of cup. My advice is give it up!

📌Dialogue HERE IS A CONVERSATION BETWEEN JOAN AND HER HUSBAND STEVE: Scenario: It's Monday morning and something is happening next door. Joan: Steve, what's all that noise outside? Steve: Just a minute, I'll have a look. ....... Oh! It looks as if the new next door neighbours are moving in. Joan: It's a bit early, isn't it? Ah well I guess we'd better get ready for work. Steve: It's amazing how quickly the houses are selling round here, the Browns only put theirs on the market about a month ago. Joan: Where did they move to in the end? Steve: I think he told me they were buying a detached house in Surbiton. Joan: Sounds lovely. I hope the new neighbours are nice. Steve: Well, I was speaking with Mr Brown last week. He told me they were a young couple with two daughters. They liked the house because the school here has a good reputation. Joan: Two daughters! That will please John. Steve: Maybe we'd better pop next door and say hello. Joan: Yes, and maybe we'd better start thinking of selling as well. I fancy a detached house in Surbiton too. Steve: Hmm?

📌 Dialogue ✅Scenario; It's Saturday and Mrs Smith has gone shopping with her daughter Lucy for a new dress in the sales~ Lucy: Well mum, what do you think? Mrs Smith: Mmm, it's nice, but I think you need a slightly bigger size. The top is gaping. Lucy: I think this is the only one. Mrs Smith: I'd better ask an assistant. Excuse me. Do you have this in a size 12? Shop assistant: I'm afraid everything in the sale is out on display. Mrs Smith: Oh dear. It's just a bit too tight. Shop assistant: I think we have a size 12, in red. Lucy: Oh no. Red's just not my colour. Shop assistant: It's not bright red, it's a nice dark red. Here it is. Why don't you try it on? There's a changing room free over there. Later... Lucy: It fits like a glove. What do you think Mum? Mrs Smith: It looks really nice. I guess red suits you after all.

📌Dialogue ✅HERE IS A CONVERSATION BETWEEN MRS SMITH (JOAN) AND THE CASHIER AT HER NEW BANK. It's Saturday morning and Joan's gone to the bank.~ Joan : I'd like to open a bank account, please. Cashier :Certainly. Do you have some form of identification? Joan : Yes, I bought my passport. Is that OK? Cashier : Yes. We also need proof of your current address. Do you have a utility bill or your driver's licence with you? Joan : I've got my driver's licence. Cashier : That's fine. What kind of account did you want? Joan : Well I want two, a deposit account and a savings account. Cashier : That's fine, we do both. Do you have any proof of income? Joan : Yes, I bought my pay slips for the last three months. Cashier : Good. You could also apply for a credit card at the same time, if you like. Joan : Yes, that would be great. Cashier : OK. If you would just like to fill out these forms...

📌Dialogue ✅HERE WE HAVE TWO CONVERSATIONS BETWEEN MRS SMITH AND HER YOUNGER SON JOHN: It's 7am and John is still in bed. John's mother must leave for work.~ Mrs S: Get up John or you'll be late for school! John: I'm getting up mum. Mrs S: Well come down stairs and have your breakfast. John: Can I have cereal and toast? Mrs S: Yes if you hurry, I have to leave for work. John: Morning mum. Mrs S: Fetch a chair and sit at the table, there's a bowl of cereal, a plate of toast and a cup of tea. You'll have to get your own cutlery. I've got to go now, I'll see you tonight, bye. John: Bye mum. It's 5pm and John's mother has just come home from work. John: What's for dinner tonight mum? Mrs S: What do you fancy? John: Fish and chips would be nice. Mrs S: What did you have for lunch at school? John: Pizza and chips. Mrs S: Well how about a nice healthy salad then? John: Oh. Well ok, can I help? Mrs S: Yes you can set the table. Set it for 3, your father should be home any minute. John: Should I put spoons and bowls out? Mrs S: No we won't have a starter, just put out plates and knives and forks, we'll have fruit for pudding. We'll need cups and saucers too, your father will want a cup of tea when he comes in. John: I want to invite Mark for tea on Saturday. Can he come. Mrs S: Yes of course, as long as it's ok with his mother.

📌Dialogue ✅HERE IS A CONVERSATION BETWEEN MR SMITH (A MATHS TEACHER) AND SAM (HIS STUDENT). WHERE'S YOUR HOMEWORK? Mr Smith: Hello Sam. Have you got your Maths homework? Sam: No, I'm sorry Mr Smith. I forgot it. Mr Smith: That's not good enough Sam. It was due last week. Sam: I know. I've been very busy at home. Mr Smith: Well, maybe I should come and speak to your parents. Sam: Oh, please don't Mr Smith. I'm really sorry. I promise I'll bring it tomorrow. Mr Smith: Ok. But make sure you do. Or I will have to speak to the head.