NECO English Language · Oral English
Vowels: NECO English Language Past Questions and Answers
What the WAEC syllabus covers in Vowels
Our summary: Telling apart and pronouncing English vowel sounds: pure vowels, diphthongs and triphthongs.
- Pure vowels
- Diphthongs
- Triphthongs
- Candidates should be able to recognize and produce all the significant sound contrasts in the vowel system of English. For the guidance of candidates, a few examples of such contrasts are given below.
- Examples of vowel contrasts (seat – sit; sit – set; peck – pack; pack – park; cart – cat; load – lord; pair – purr; park – port; hard – heard; word – ward; let – late; cheer – chair; pet – pat – part – pate; hat – heart – height – hate – hut; caught – cot – cut – curt; pool – pull – pole; bird – bed – bared; but – bat.)
Syllabus content © The West African Examinations Council (WASSCE (harmonised West African syllabus)). NECO questions are matched to the WAEC syllabus topic.
NECO English Language questions on Vowels
- NECO 2009Choose from the options lettered A - E the one that has the same vowel sound as the one represented by the underlined letter(s) seat
- NECO 2009Choose from the options lettered A - E the one that contains the sound segment represented by the given phonetic symbol /a:/
- NECO 2009Choose from the options lettered A - E the one that contains the sound segment represented by the given phonetic symbol /i:/
- NECO 2009Choose from the options lettered A - E the one that has the same vowel sound as the one represented by the underlined letter(s) car
- NECO 2009Choose from the options lettered A - E the one that has the same vowel sound as the one represented by the underlined letter(s) bed
- NECO 2009Choose from the options lettered A - E the one that has the same vowel sound as the one represented by the underlined letter(s) dread
- NECO 2009Choose from the options lettered A - E the one that has the same vowel sound as the one represented by the underlined letter(s) kid
- NECO 2008Choose from the options lettered A - E the one that has the same vowel sound as the one represented by the underlined letter(s) may
- NECO 2008Choose from the options lettered A - E the one that contains the sound segment represented by the given phonetic symbol /əʊ/
- NECO 2008Choose from the options lettered A - E the one that contains the sound segment represented by the given phonetic symbol /u:/
- NECO 2008gear — Choose from the options lettered A - E the one that has the same vowel sound as the one represented by the underlined Letter(s)
Years with Vowels questions in DeeepSolve's question bank
From the past questions DeeepSolve holds, not a count of everything the exam body has set.
- 2009
- 2008