Phonemic Chart
Review of the ‘British Council – Phonemic Chart – TeachingEnglish’ noting inconsistency of rationale and specific errors (by Debbie Hepplewhite 29
th
July 2012)
The chart below is a copy of the symbols and word examples of the British Council chart and is not the original chart.
Phonemic chart
Submitted by TE Editor on 15 December, 2012 – 11:17
This is the new British Council phonemic chart. Help your students hear the sounds of English by clicking on the symbols below. Click on the top
right hand corner of each symbol to hear the sample words including the sounds.
BRITISH
COUNCIL
PHONEMIC CHART TeachingEnglish
vowels
i:
seat
green
tree
ɪ
sit
grin
fish
ʊ
good
foot
pull
u:
food
rule
shoe
diphthongs ɪə
year
beer
ear
eə
chair
where
there
e
head
bet
said
ə
teacher
observer
about
ɜ:
girl
nurse
earth
ɔ:
walk
door
four
əʊ
joke
vote
throw
aʊ
vow
lounge
out
æ
had
lamb
apple
ʌ
cup
love
money
ɑ:
heart
dark
fast
ɒ
hot
stop
want
eɪ
they
bathe
way
aɪ
thigh
dice
my
ɔɪ
joy
noise
choice
consonants p
pull
stop
apple
f
four
food
fish
t
tree
stop
want
θ
earth
thigh
throw
tʃ
teacher
chair
choice
s
stop
sit
fast
ʃ
shoe
fish
sure
k
walk
dark
cup
b
bet
about
beer
v
observer
vow
vote
d
door
food
said
ð
they
there
bathe
dʒ
joke
joy
lounge
z
observer
noise
president
ʒ
casual
measure
pleasure
g
grin
green
girl
h
hot
head
heart
m
money
lamb
my
n
grin
green
nurse
ŋ
sing
english
drank
r
rule
grin
tree
l
pull
love
rule
w
want
way
where
j
year
yes
yellow
About the chart
Pure vowels are arranged the same way as in the IPA chart: according to mouth shape (left to right, lips wide/round – top to bottom, jaw closed/open).
Diphthongs are grouped in rows according to their second sound.
Comment [D1]: I have previously
emailed the contact address for this
resource about the errors on the chart –
but there was no take‐up of this
information.
Comment [D2]: In the words ‘year’ and
‘beer’, the letter ‘r’ needs to be included in
the grapheme – to be the same as in the
word ‘ear’.
Comment [D3]: The ‘o’ in ‘observer’ is
likely to be pronounced as /o/ rather than
a schwa – this is probably not a good
example.
Comment [D4]:
In the words ‘door’ and
‘four’, the letter ‘r’ needs to be included in
the grapheme – thus ‘oor’ and ‘our’ as
code for the /or/ sound.
Comment [D5]:
Many people would
pronounce the letter ‘a’ as /a/ in the word
‘fast’. A better example would be ‘father’
where many people would pronounce the
letter ‘a’ as /ar/.
Comment [D6]:
In the word ‘bathe’, the
grapheme ‘the’ is code for the voiced /th/.
Comment [D7]:
In the word ‘lounge’,
the grapheme ‘ge’ is code for the /j/ sound
– not just the letter ‘g’.
Comment [D8]: In the word ‘noise’, the
grapheme ‘se’ is code for the /z/ sound –
not just the letter ‘s’. It is also surprising
that there is no word example with the
letter ‘z’ as code for the /z/ sound!
Comment [D9]: In the word ‘english’,
the first letter should be a capital E, and
the letter ‘n’ is code for the /ng/ sound –
not the letters ‘ng’.
Comment [D10]:
With the rationale
shown earlier in the chart where there is
no use of ‘split digraphs’ such as o‐e in
‘joke’ and ‘vote’, then the grapheme ‘le’
should be code for the /l/ sound – not just
the letter ‘l’ ‐ to be consistent.
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