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English

DID YOU ?
KNOW

The two words in bold in the first stanza of the poem form a minimal pair. The
concept of minimal pairs is an important aspect of phonetics and phonology. It
refers to pairs of words that differ in meaning by only one sound or phoneme in
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the same position. In other words, minimal pairs are pairs of words that share the
same sounds except for one phoneme, which, when changed, leads to a different
meaning.

(f) Listen to the teacher or fellow student saying the words in Colum 1 and Column 2.
Say if you think the word is in Column 1 or Column 2.

Column 1 Column 2

fit feet
rice lice
bins beans
lick leek
grass glass
ship sheep
chip cheap
steering stealing
hit heat
it eat
sin seen
wick week

(g) Listen to your teacher or fellow student reading the sentences below. Circle the
word you hear out of the two underlined words in each sentence.
1. They need more bins/beans.
2. It is not right/light yet.
3. Do you want a lick/leek?
4. He wants to buy the ship/sheep.
5. He was steering/stealing the car.
6. I can’t give you this chip/cheap.
7. You mustn’t hit/heat it.
8. He does it/eat sometimes.
9. It was a long wick/week.
10. The child had rice/lice in his hair.

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