英语五个元音字母在单词的读音中起着重要的作用，掌握元音字母及元音字母组合的读音，对于英语初学者来说至关重要。五个元音字母构成的十个元音字母组合与读音如下图：1.AI组合

在重读音节中读[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组合在非重读音节中读[?/i]

例如：certainly [‘s?:t?nli] mountain [‘mauntin] Britain [‘brit?n] captain [‘k?ptin];

AI组合读[e]

例如：again [?’gen] against[?’genst]

2.OA 组合

读[?u]

例如：boat [b?ut] coat [k?ut] road [r?ud] download [‘daunl?ud] goal [g?ul]

3. EE组合

读[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组合

读[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组合读[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组合读[ei]

例如: break [breik] great [greit]

5. IE组合

读[i:]

例如：piece [pi:s] field [fi:ld] thief [θi:f] believe[bi?li:v] achieve [??t?i:v];

IE组合读[ai]

例如：tie [tai] die [dai] pie [pai] lie[lai]

6. EI组合

读[ei]

例如：eight [eit] seize[seiz] weight[weit]

EI组合读[i:]

例如：deceive [d??si:v] conceive [k?n?si:v] perceive [p??si:v] receive [r??si:v]

7. 字母OO 组合

读[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组合读[u]

例如：book [buk] look [luk] good [gud] cook [kuk] wool [wul] wood [wud];

OO组合读[?]

例如：flood [fl?d] blood [bl?d]

8. 字母OI组合

读[?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组合

读[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组合读[?]

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组合读[u:/u]

例如：you [ju:] could [kud] should [?ud] soup [su:p] through [θru:]

10. AU组合

读[?:]

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组合读[ɑ:]

例如：aunt [ɑ:nt] laugh [lɑ:f]