Learning & Teaching Foreign Languages

Contrast

Illustrations

Print out these exercises to test your understanding of the contrasts involved in minimal pairs.  Then check the answer sheet.

1. Ship or sheep?

http://www.shiporsheep.com/page1.html

 

2. Cliff Hanger and the Sheep on a ship

 

3. Fourteen or forty?

http://www.manythings.org/mp/m08.html

 

4. Vowel contrast flashcards

http://www.speech-language-therapy.com/txvowelcontrasts.html

 

5. Minimal pairs

http://myweb.tiscali.co.uk/wordscape/wordlist/

 

6. French EFL learners

http://www.btinternet.com/~ted.power/l1french.html
 

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