Contents

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1 Five Ways to Help Your Pronunciation
2-5 Long and Short A
6-9 Long and Short E
10 Review of A and E
11-14 Long and Short I
15 Review of A, E and I
16-19 Long and Short O
20 Review of A, E, I and O
21-24 Long and Short U
25 Vowel Bingo
26-27 Long A and Short E
28-29 Long E and Short I
30 Ow/Ou
31 Oy/Oi
32 The Two Sounds of Y
33-34 Doubling
35 The Two Sounds of C
36 Spelling Rule for Adding S
37 The 3 Sounds of S
38 Er
39 Consonant + le
40-41 Spelling of Y + an Ending
42 Sentences with L and R
43-44 ch or sh?
45 Words with "gh"
46-47 3 Sounds of Past "-ed"
48 Months of the Year
49 Linking
50 How Was Your Weekend? (d + y)
51 The 2 Sounds of Can
52 Jazz Chant: Months of the Year
53-54 Song: Barbecue
55-56 Song: I Wrote a Lot of Cheques
57 Numbers to 20
58 Numbers to 100
59 Your Change Is…
60 Big Numbers
61 Ordinal Numbers
62-64 Answer Key
 Five Ways to Help Your Pronunciation

1. Use the CD
Use the 'pause' button to stop the CD and repeat.

2. Learn long and short vowels

(to sound out new words and learn better spelling)
Long vowels: Short vowels:
Your mouth is tense. Your mouth is relaxed.
The name and sound are the same. The name and sound are different.
(The name is E, the sound is E). (The name is E, the sound is ě).
Mark with a straight line: ā. Mark with a curved line: ǎ.
Spelling: (usually) 2 vowels Spellling: (usually) 1 vowel

Let's try it!

1-1 Put your hands on your face.
Listen and repeat.
Long Short
ā (ate) ǎ (at)
ē (feel) ĕ (fell)
ī (I) ĭ (it)
ō (own) ŏ (on)
ū (boot) ǔ (but)
yū (music)

3. Use What You Learn

1. Mark the long and short vowels on new words.
2. Mark the syllable cuts and stress for long words:
3. Sound out problem words. Start in the middle, then add the front, then
say the whole word: To sound out "meet":  ēe  mēe  mēet

4. Dictionaries
For many pages in this book, don't look up the meaning. We want
you to "See a new word, say a new word". Don't worry about the meaning!

5. Practice Your English!

Speaking more will really help your pronunciation.
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 1-5 Sentences with Long and Short A
1. (a) Where is Main Street?
7. (a) Can Kane cook?
(b) Where is Mann Street?
(b) Kane can cook?
2. (a) His name is Mr. Blake.
(b) His name is Mr. Black. 8. (a) What a shame!
(=That's too bad.)
3. (a) Jane isn't here today. (b) What a sham!
(=It's not true.)
(b) Jan isn't here today.
9. (a) Did you say
'grad' or 'grade'?
(b) Did you say
'grade' or 'grad'?
4. (a) I have a pain right here.
(b) I have a pan right here.

5. (a) Jake Blake is my friend.

(b) Jack Blake is my friend. 10.
(a) She's wearing a cape today.
(c) Jake Black is my friend.
(b) She's wearing a cap today.
(d) Jack Black is my friend.

11.
6. (a) Send me your fax.
(a) Let's go bake. (b) Send me your fakes.
(b) Let's go back. (fakes=not real things)

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ē
ĕ

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 2-3 Sentences with Long E and Short I

1. (a) It's my sheep.

(b) It's my ship.
7. (a) He feels feet.
(b) He feels fit*.
* fit = healthy

8. (a) This is Izzy.

2. (a) Please heat the water.
(b) Please hit the water. (b) This is easy.

3. (a) Please feel this. 9. (a) He's slipping on the street.

(b) Please fill this. (b) He's sleeping on the street.

4. (a) Eat, eat!

(b) Eat it!

5. (a) Did you say he's or his?

10. (a) I really need a slip*.
(b) Did you say his or he's? * slip = small piece of paper

(b) I really need a sleep.

6. (a) Her name is Jin Deal.
(b) Her name is Jean Deal. 11. (a) Are you living here?
(c) Her name is Jin Dill. (b) Are you leaving* here?
* leaving = going away
(d) Her name is Jean Dill.
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2-5
boy!

 B. Listen and write.

1. ___________ 5. ___________
2. ___________ 6. ___________
3. ___________ 7. ___________
4. ___________ 8. ___________

C. Underline the oy sounds.

Then read your sentences aloud with a partner.

1. Floyd doesn't have coins for the bus.

2. The noisy boys are playing with their toys.
3. The noise is annoying.
4. She has two boys: Lloyd and Roy.
5. You need boiling water for tea.
6. I joined this class last month.
7. This food is too oily!
8. Do you enjoy foods with soy?

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