Homework

 For next class please practice the two phonetic sounds we learned today which are /I/ and /i:/

Bin and Bean              

• Bin: a container for rubbish / Bean: edible seed
• Beans are packed with nutrients.

Bit and Beat

• Bit: a small part of something / Beat: to hit repeatedly
• Practice keeping the beat, it is a bit off.

Chip and Cheap

• Chip: a small thin piece / Cheap: low priced
• Do not grin, the green bin was cheap as chips.

Chick and Cheek

• Chick: baby bird / Cheek: soft part of the face below the eyes, on either side of the nose
•  That chick with fluffy cheeks is my favorite.

Dip and Deep

• Dip: to go down to lower level / Deep: far down from the top surface
• I took a dip in the deep sea.

Did and Deed

• Did: past tense of do / Deed: an action
• Did you file the property deed with the land office?

Fill and Feel

• Fill: to make full / Feel: to physically touch something or to experience an emotion
• The dentist filled the hole in my tooth yesterday, I feel much better now.

Fit and Feet

• Fit: healthy / Feet: plural of the foot (a part of the body)
• Feet ache when shoes do not fit.

Fist and Feast

• Fist: the hand closed tightly with fingers bent into the palm / Feast: special meal served at a party or celebration
• She celebrated her wedding with a large feast for family and friends.

Grid and Greed

• Grid: a pattern of straight lines that cross over each other vertically and horizontally / Greed: selfish and uncontrolled desire for more of something.
• Greed can be deadly.

Grin and  Green

• Grin: wide smile / Green: a colour
• Do not grin, the green bin was cheap as chips.

Hid and Heed

• Hid: past tense of hide (to keep out of sight) / Heed: to pay attention 
• He did not heed the teacher's warning and kept chattering.

Hip and Heap

• Hip: a joint that connects leg to upper body / Heap: an untidy pile of something
• I fell on a heap of rocks and injured my hip.

Hit and Heat

• Hit: to strike or be struck / Heat: high temperature
• We were hit hard by the heat wave.

Hill and Heel

• Hill: raise part of Earth’s surface smaller than a mountain / Heel: rounded back part of the foot.
• I bumped my heel while running down the hill.

It and Eat

• It: third person pronoun / Eat: to put food in the mouth and chew it.
• Is it healthy to eat out?

Itch and Each

• Itch: a sensation on the skin that makes you want to scratch / Each: every person or thing in a group.
• Each one of us had an itchy rash.

Knit and Neat

• Knit: to make a garment or cloth with yarn and needles / Neat: well-ordered or tidy
• She can knit neatly.

Lick and Leak

• Lick: move the tongue over a surface / Leak: to escape through a crack or hole in a pipe or container 
• Call the plumber to fix the leak.

Lip and Leap

• Lip: either of the two outer parts of the mouth / Leap: to jump
• He leaped and fell and cut his lip.

List and Least

• List: a set of information written one below the other / Least: smallest in size or degree
• This list is the least I could do.

Live and Leave

• Live: to have life / Leave: to go away from someone or something
• Leave your worries behind and live in the moment.

Pip and Peep

• Pip: a small seed of a fruit / Peep: a quick or secretive look
• Some fruit pips are harmful to eat.

Pill and Peel

• Pill: a small solid mass of medicine that is swallowed whole / Peel: to remove the outer covering
• I will eat the peach after I peel it.

Pick and Peak

• Pick: to pluck or to choose / Peak: highest or important point
• Pick an alternate route to avoid peak hour traffic. 

Pitch and Peach

• Pitch: quality of sound / Peach: a stone fruit
• I will eat the peach after I peel it.

Rich and Reach

• Rich: wealthy / Reach: to arrive at a place
• Work hard and you can get rich and reach the heights you deserve.

Rid and Read

• Rid: to be free of something or someone unwanted / Read: an act of getting meaning by looking at written words
• Read books to get rid of boredom.

Sit and Seat

• Sit: a position when one’s bottom rests on a surface and supports the body / Seat: a place to sit 
• The bike seat was so uncomfortable I couldn’t sit for long.

Ship and Sheep

• Ship: a large boat / Sheep: farm animal with wool
• He tried to seek the sick sheep on the ship.

Sick and Seek

• Sick: unwell / Seek: search for or try to find
• He tried to seek the sick sheep on the ship.

Sip and Seep

• Sip: to drink with small mouthfuls / Seep: to pass slowly through small holes
• Water was seeping through the cracks in the wall.

Slip and Sleep

• Slip: to slide and fall / Sleep: state of resting your body with closed eyes
• I am going to slip into bed and go to sleep.

Sin and Seen

• Sin: an act against religious or moral laws / Seen: past particle of see
• Murder is seen as a sin but not a death penalty.

Still and Steel

• Still: not moving or making a sound / Steel: a hard tough metal
• Steel is still the most important engineering material.

Win and Wean

• Win : to succeed in a competition / Wean: to cause a child or young animal to stop taking mother’s milk and start eating solid food.
• We will need to wean off fossil fuels to win the fight against climate change.

Will and Wheel

• Will: to express future tense or someone’s ability to do something / Wheel: a circular simple machine that revolves on an axle
• The wheel will turn.

Information from: https://www.krisamerikos.com/blog/minimal-pairs-2

Also, you are going to watch the following video but only until minute 5:15