What is the Place of Grammar in Language Teaching?

F. Write this sentence in phonemic script.
Mrs Thatcher flew to New York to have talks with President Reagan- is Reegan or Raygan, by the way?
/ mɪsəz θæʧə fluː tə njuː jɔrk tə həv tɔːks wɪð prezɪdənt reɪgən ɪz ri:gən ə raɪgən baɪ ðə weɪ/
G. Write down some minimal pairs which distinguish the sounds.
Minimal pairs actually decide what is or is not a phoneme in the language. A single difference in sound produces a difference in meaning. A single difference in sound produces no change in meaning. Minimal pairs should be found with sounds that are reasonably closely related:
pat/fat; fat/vat; pat/bat; bat/bet; bat/bite; bite/bait; bait/beat, etc. Now I am going to give more examples of minimal pairs and the levels I use them to.
i. / f / and / v /
/f/ and /v/ are pronounced with the same mouth position of the top teeth biting the bottom lip, but with /f/ pronounced with more air.
Elementary and Pre-Intermediate

• 
  fan van
  
• 
  ferry very
  
• 
  leaf leave
  
• 
  off of
  

Intermediate

• 
  fast vast
  
• 
  fat vat
  
• 
  fee V
  
• 
  fine vine
  
• 
  foul vowel
  
• 
  gif give
  
• 
  half halve
  
• 
  life live (adjective)
  
• 
  proof prove
  
• 
  safe save
  

Upper-Intermediate

• 
  belief believe
  
• 
  fail veil
  
• 
  fear veer
  
• 
  feel veal
  
• 
  fender vendor
  
• 
  grief grieve
  
• 
  staff starve
  
• 
  surf serve
  

Advanced

• 
  calf carve
  
• 
  chaff chav
  
• 
  duff dove
  
• 
  fault vault
  
• 
  feign vain
  
• 
  feign vein
  
• 
  fie vie
  
• 
  file vile
  
• 
  foist voiced
  
• 
  foal vole
  
• 
  fox vox
  
• 
  guff guv
  
• 
  reef reeve
  
• 
  serf serve
  
• 
  skiff skiv
  
• 
  strife strive
  
• 
  waif waive