Vowels: WAEC 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.)

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