Universidad Latina de Costa Rica

Professor: José Manuel Campos

Period: 2014-1

Course: Pronunciation III

Midterm Pronunciation Exam

Time: 90 Minutes

Percentage: 15%

Points: 60 Points

Student’s Name: _________________________________________________________________

ID: _____________________________________ Signature: ______________________________

Obtained Points: _________________________ Score: __________________________________

Obtained percentage: ______________________

General Instructions

• Students are not allowed to leave the room once the examination has commenced.

• Students aren’t allowed to communicate with each other in any way once the

examination is in progress.

• All students may take pens, pencils and rubber into the examination room.

• Avoid using correction fluid in your examination.

• Do not write in red pen or pencil unless specified on the examination paper.

• If you wish to query an examination question, ask your professor.

• You are strongly advised not to use your mobile phone during the examination.

• You must remove all other belongings from the vicinity.

• Don’t use unauthorized material because it may be considered as evidence of cheating

or attempting to do so.

• Make sure you submit all the answers in the examination.

I Part : Multiple choice ( 20 points)

Mark with an X the best answer and follow the indication

1. What word has a different consonant “th”Sound?

( ) North

( ) Mouth

( ) South

( ) They

2. What word has a different “th” consonant sound?

( ) Thanks

( ) those

( ) other

( ) they

3. What word has an “l” sound ?

( ) Could

( ) Talk

( ) half

( ) Simple

4. What word doesn’t have the “K” sound?

( ) Knife

( ) Desk

( ) Color

( ) Stick

5. What word doesn’t have the “b” sound?

( ) climb

( ) robber

( ) bed

( ) bound

6. What word doesn’t have the “b” sound?

( ) building

( ) beat

( ) Doubt

( ) Blouse

7. What word has a different vowel sound?

( ) Die

( ) Line

( ) Fierce

( ) Buy

8. What word has a different vowel sound?

( ) were

( ) ear

( ) chair

( ) hair

9. What word has a different vowel sound?

( ) bird

( ) heard

( ) hear

( ) early

10. What word has a different vowel sound?

( ) bread

( ) said

( ) friend

( ) paid

11. What word has a different vowel sound?

( ) dog

( ) saw

( ) talk

( ) bought

12. What word has a different vowel sound?

( ) lock

( ) short

( ) stop

( ) not

13. What word has a different vowel sound?

( ) bus

( ) up

( ) fruit

( ) study

14. What word has a different vowel sound?

( ) book

( ) foot

( ) took

( ) spoon

15. How many sounds does the word caught have?

( ) three

( ) four

( ) five

( ) two

16. How many sounds does the word six have?

( ) three

( ) four

( ) five

( ) two

17. How many sounds does the word doubt have?

( ) three

( ) four

( ) five

( ) two

18. What word doesn’t have the “b” sound?

( ) brown

( ) broke

( ) comb

( ) beast

19. What word has a different vowel sound?

( ) brown

( ) broke

( ) lounge

( ) crowd

20. What word doesn’t have a “j “ in its transcription

( ) drew

( ) few

( ) music

( ) view

II Part: Short Answer ( 15 Points)

Transcribe the following words

a) ache:________________

b) cold:________________

c) great:_______________

d) copy:________________

e) Coffee:______________

f) Guest:______________

g) Carry:_______________

h) Come:______________

Transcribe the following words using the weak forms

a) Us:______________

b) Him:_____________

c) We:_____________

d) Some:___________

e) From:___________

f) To:_____________

g) She:____________

III Part : Identification ( 15 Points)

Identify which words have the sounds requested, remember ten words won’t be used

Words with the vowel sound like learn /lɜːn/

1. __________________

2. __________________

3. __________________

4. _________________

5. _________________

6. _________________

7. _________________

8. _________________

9. _________________

Words with vowel sound like snore /snɔːr/

1. _________________

2. _________________

3. _________________

4. _________________

5. _________________

6. _________________

IV Part : Production (10 Points)

Transcribe the following sentences , each sentence transcribed correctly is worth 2 points

a) Don’t pick up the phone._____________________________________________

b) I always bring up a new topic._________________________________________

c) My old car broke down.______________________________________________

d) I invited him over for dinner.__________________________________________

e) I ran into my teacher.________________________________________________