英語(yǔ)五個(gè)元音字母在單詞的讀音中起著重要的作用，掌握元音字母及元音字母組
合的讀音，對(duì)于英語(yǔ)初學(xué)者來(lái)說(shuō)至關(guān)重要。五個(gè)元音字母構(gòu)成的十個(gè)元音字母組
合與讀音如下圖：
1.AI組合
在重讀音節(jié)中讀[ei],
例如：e-mail [i:\’meil] straight [streit] train [trein] afraid [?\’freid] wait [weit] rain [rein] painting [\’peinti?] main [mein]complain [k?m\’plein] pain [pein] fail [feil] mainland [\’meinl?nd] rail [reil] tail [teil] painful [\’peinf?l];
AI組合在非重讀音節(jié)中讀[?/i]
例如：certainly [\’s?:t?nli] mountain [\’mauntin] Britain [\’brit?n] captain [\’k?ptin];
AI組合讀[e]
例如：again [?\’gen] against[?\’genst]
2.OA 組合
讀[?u]
例如：boat [b?ut] coat [k?ut] road [r?ud] download [\’daunl?ud] goal [g?ul]
3. EE組合
讀[i:]
例如：three [θri:] thirteen [\’θ?:ti:n] meet [mi:t] see [si:] sheep [?i:p] between [bi\’twi:n] sleep [sli:p] week [wi:k] wheel [hwi:l] agree [?\’gri:] free [fri:] sweet [swi:t] feed [fi:d] feel [fi:l] need [ni:d] street [stri:t] beef [bi:f] cheese [t?i:z] seem [si:m] knee [ni:] screen [skri:n] reef [ri:f] greet [gri:t] freeze [fri:z]
4.字母EA組合
讀[i:]
例如：please [pli:z] teacher [\’ti:t??] seat [si:t] clean [kli:n] speak [spi:k] eat [i:t] meat [mi:t] tea [ti:] cream [kri:m] easy [\’i:zi] team [ti:m] each [i:t?] leave [li:v] sea [si:] cheap [t?i:p] east [i:st] wheat [hwi:t] season [\’si:zn] mean [mi:n] reach [ri:t?] dream [dri:m] breathe [bri:e] least [li:st] deal [di:l] beach [bi:t?];
EA組合讀[e]
例如: health [helθ] weather [\’wee?] ready [\’redi] instead [in\’sted] death [deθ] pleasant [\’pleznt] already [?:l\’redi] leather [\’lee?] sweater [\’swet?] heavy [\’hevi] head [hed] bread [bred];
EA組合讀[ei]
例如: break [breik] great [greit]
5. IE組合
讀[i:]
例如：piece [pi:s] field [fi:ld] thief [θi:f] believe[bi?li:v] achieve [??t?i:v];
IE組合讀[ai]
例如：tie [tai] die [dai] pie [pai] lie[lai]
6. EI組合
讀[ei]
例如：eight [eit] seize[seiz] weight[weit]
EI組合讀[i:]
例如：deceive [d??si:v] conceive [k?n?si:v] perceive [p??si:v] receive [r??si:v]
7. 字母OO 組合
讀[u:]
例如：too [tu:] room [ru:m] broom [bru:m] noon [nu:n] zoo [zu:] noodle [\’nu:dl] soon [su:n] moon [mu:n] spoon [spu:n] cool [ku:l] pool [pu:l] bamboo [b?m\’bu:];
OO組合讀[u]
例如：book [buk] look [luk] good [gud] cook [kuk] wool [wul] wood [wud];
OO組合讀[?]
例如：flood [fl?d] blood [bl?d]
8. 字母OI組合
讀[?i]
例如：toilet [\’t?ilit] coin [k?in] oil [?il] noise [n?iz] voice [v?is] spoil [sp?il] soil [s?il] point [p?int] join [j?in]
9. 字母OU組合
讀[au]
例如：mouse [maus] house [haus] trousers [\’trauz?z] about [?\’baut] mouth [mauθ] out [aut] round [raund] ouch [aut?] pound [paund] sound [saund] mountain [\’mauntin] cloud [klaud] south [sauθ] loud [laud] ground [graund] proud [praud] found [faund] drought [draut] count [kaunt] blouse [blauz] around [?\’raund] thousand [\’θauz?nd] shout [?aut];
OU組合讀[?]
例如：young [j??] country [\’k?ntri] trouble [\’tr?bl] enough [i\’n?f] encourage [in\’k?rid?] rough [r?f] double [\’d?bl];
OU組合讀[u:/u]
例如：you [ju:] could [kud] should [?ud] soup [su:p] through [θru:]
10. AU組合
讀[?:]
例如：daughter [\’d?:t?] Australia [?:s\’treilj?] because [bi\’k?:z] autumn [\’?:t?m] August [?:\’g?st] cause [k?:z] pause [p?:z] audience [\’?:di?ns]
AU組合讀[ɑ:]
例如：aunt [ɑ:nt] laugh [lɑ:f]
