音形对应记单词：听发音知字母 中元音/ə/
/ə/是单元音、中元音及短元音。中元音/ə/是字母和字母组合a、e、o、u、or、er等字母和字母组合在单词中的读音。
发音方法：
1）嘴微微张开，嘴唇放松，舌身平放。2）舌中部伸向硬颚，不要与之接触。3）口部肌肉和舌头放松，震动声带，气流向外发出/ə/音。
发音提示：
- 这个/ə/音在口腔的中间位置完成。发音时舌身平放，舌中部略隆起伸向硬颚， 但不要接触硬颚，口腔放松，双唇扁平。
- 发音小技巧：尽管音和汉语的“额”音类似，但是舌头的位置比发汉语“额”的位置稍微高一些。
音形对应规则总结：
- a在非重读音节中发/ə/；
- e在非重读音节中发/ə/；
- o在非重读音节中发/ə/；
- u在非重读音节中发/ə/；
- or在非重读音节中发/ə/；
- er在非重读音节中发/ə/；
- ur在非重读音节中发/ə/。
音形对应学以致用：
短元音/ə/是字母a、e、o、u、or、 er和ur在所在单词中的发音。
字母a在非重读音节中发/ ə/。
agree appreciate Thomas
account admire again
alone along among
appeal appear arise
around balloon banana
away elephant manta
banana Canada Japan
China accept about
字母e在非重读音节中发/ə/
men listen problem
prosperous student confident
parent children moment
agency camera concentrate
enemy label letter
problem system children
citizen happenlengthen
open suddenweaken
字母o在非重读音节通常发/ə/
together tomorrow today
lesson control polite
around account today
tomorrow together control
collectsecond nobody
Londonopinion Bolivia
common majorreason
domestic awesome bottom
freedom random symptom
字母u在非重读音节中发/ə/
support suggest autumn
August difficult minus
versus support maximum
minimum industry suggest
autumn album upon
circumstance measurement Portugal
字母组合or在重读音节中发/ə/
doctor actor mayor
author tractor sector
senior senator monitor
factor humor visitor
author error governor
major minor professor
senior actor director
字母组合er在重读音节中发/ə/
teacher leader remember
player speaker farmer
powder October yesterday
perhaps meter December
member Novembernumber
September after computer
character daughter letter
matter quarter sister
water winter another
brother father feather
字母组合ou在重读音节中发/ə/
delicious gracious pleasure
prosperousanxious continuous
curious dangerous enormous
famous nervous numerous
obvious previous religious
字母组合ar在重读音节中发/ə/
familiar collar dollar
sugar popular grammar
angular cellular particular
popular regular similar
字母组合our在重读音节中发/ə/
honour neighbour behaviour
colour favour honour
humour labour neighbour
字母组合ur在重读音节中发/ə/
nurse turn hurt
fur famous exposure
measure pleasure pressure
procedure culture feature
future manufacture nature
picture structure temperature
提示：
- 音节的概念非常重要，如果没有理解，请学习第12课；
- 通过反复练习，学习并记住这些字母及字母组合的发音规律；
- 必要时，可有意识地背诵，记住这些字母及字母组合的发音规律；
- /ə/音在英语的发音中是个非常活跃的音，请注意学习。
- 把这些字母及字母组合的发音规律应用到听音知形，看形知音，以音形对应规律记单词的过程中。
