/æ/ Vs /eI/

                               / æ /                          / e I /        

1                            bat                            bate 

2                            cap                           cape

3                            fat                            fate

4                            gap                         gape

5                            hat                            hate

6                            lac                             lace

7                            mat                           mate

8                           pat                            pate

9                            rat                             rate

10                           Sam                        same

11                          sat                           sate

12                          spat                            spate

13                          than                            thane                             

14                           Sam                         same

15                          sham                         shame

/ I / Vs / aI/

                 / I /                                  /aI/

 1             bit                                     bite

 2           chid                                   chide

 3           hid                                      hide

 4             grip                                              gripe

 5             mill                                             mile  (smile)

 6             pill                                               pile

 7             rip                                                ripe

 8             slid                                             slide      

 9           sit                                      site

10          still                                     stile

11          strip                                   stripe                           

 12         till                                      tile

 13         trip                                     tripe       

/ ju: /

Consonant + Vowel  /ju:/     [u, ew, you ]      you   162

Mdm Chan, Sean’s mum has bought him

a brand new wrist watch.

It was water-proof and automatic.

Sean likes it very much.

He wears it to school.

He wears it to bed.

It is unique though it looks like a duplicate (ˈdju:plIkeIt)

of his dad’s old watch.

The watch, Dr. Vet used to wear in his youth

when he went around on duty (/ˈdju:tI/).

There are few (/fju:/) of this kind around nowadays

The front view (/vju:/) of Sean’s watch is very attractive.

Jean likes Sean’s watch, too.

But Sean refuses (/rIˈfju:zǝz/) to lend her

to wear just for a while.

To pacify Jean, Mdm Chan gave her

the old watch to wear.

Dr. Vet is amused (ǝˈmju:zd) at the sight

when Jean wears the old watch to school, too.

References: 

1.    Oxford Advanced Learner’s English-Chinese Dictionary.

                 The 7 edition

2.    Ling Moi Hung           Sounds & Symbols  (2009)