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Minimal Pairs: Listening Exercises

42 interactive listening discrimination exercises for practising differences between English vowel and consonant sounds. Choose an exercise below and then use the Next exercise link to work through the collection systematically.

  1. 1. Bit or Bet – Listening discrimination exercise
  2. 2. Ship or Sheep – Listening discrimination exercise
  3. 3. Bet or Bat – Listening discrimination exercise
  4. 4. Bet or But – Listening discrimination exercise
  5. 5. Bet or Bert – Listening discrimination exercise
  6. 6. Sell or Sale? – Listening discrimination exercise
  7. 7. Cat or Cut – Listening discrimination exercise
  8. 8. Listening Discrimination – /æ/ and /ɑː/ ("cat" and "cart")
  9. 9. Listening discrimination – /ɒ/ and /ɔː/ ("cot" and "caught")
  10. 10. Listening discrimination – /ʌ/ and /ɜː/ ("bud" and "bird")
  11. 11. Listening Discrimination – /ʊ/ and /uː/ ("pull" and "pool")
  12. 12. Cart or Cot – Listening discrimination exercise
  13. 13. Listening discrimination – /ɑ:/ and /ɔ:/ – "cart" and "caught"
  14. 14. Four or Fur – Listening discrimination exercise
  15. 15. Listening discrimination – /ɔ:/ and /əʊ/ – "court" and "coat"
  16. 16. Minimal pairs – listening discrimination: "day" and "die"
  17. 17. Listening discrimination – "here" and "hair"
  18. 18. Minimal pairs listening discrimination – "peer" and "poor"
  19. 19. Minimal pairs listening discrimination – "pair" and "poor"
  20. 20. Minimal pairs – vowel sounds in British English: "coat" and "cot"
  21. 21. Listening discrimination – /əʊ/ and /aʊ/ – load and loud
  22. 22. Listening discrimination – /p/ and /b/
  23. 23. Minimal Pairs – "ten" and "den" – Listening Discrimination
  24. 24. Minimal Pairs – "coal" and "goal" – Listening Discrimination
  25. 25. Listening Discrimination – /f/ and /v/
  26. 26. Minimal Pairs – "thigh" and "tie" – Listening Discrimination
  27. 27. Listening Discrimination – /θ/ and /d/
  28. 28. Listening Discrimination – /θ/ and /ð/
  29. 29. Minimal Pairs Listening Discrimination – "thin" and "sin"
  30. 30. Listening Discrimination – /ð/ and /d/
  31. 31. Listening Discrimination – "then" and "Zen"
  32. 32. Minimal pairs – /s/ and /z/ listening exercise
  33. 33. Minimal Pairs – /n/ and /ŋ/ Listening Exercise
  34. 34. Minimal Pairs – /ŋ/ and /ŋk/ Listening Exercise
  35. 35. Minimal Pairs – /l/ and /r/
  36. 36. Minimal Pairs – /w/ and /v/ – Listening Exercise
  37. 37. Minimal Pairs – /ʃ/ and /tʃ/ – Listening Exercise
  38. 38. Minimal pairs – /ʃ/ and /ʒ/ listening exercise
  39. 39. Minimal pairs – /tʃ/ and /t/ listening exercise
  40. 40. Minimal pairs – /tʃ/ and /dʒ/ listening exercise
  41. 41. Minimal pairs – /dʒ/ and /j/ listening exercise
  42. 42. Minimal pairs – /aʊ/ and /aʊə/ listening exercise