Vowel Sounds

1. The /æ/ sound

cat
black
bad
bank
glad

2. The /ɑ:/ , /ɒ/ , and /ɔ:/ sounds

arm - /ɑ:/
father - /ɑ:/
hot - /ɑ:/ or /ɒ/
rock - /ɑ:/ or /ɒ/
call - /ɑ:/ or /ɔ:/
caught - /ɑ:/ or /ɔ:/
four - /ɔ:/

3. The schwa sound: /ə/ (unstressed) or /ʌ/ (stressed)

away - /ə/
about - /ə/
Brazil - /ə/
sofa - /ə/
love - /ʌ/
sun - /ʌ/
enough - /ʌ/
money - /ʌ/

3. The /e/ sound

egg
bed
met
guest
head

4. The /ɜ:ʳ/ or /ɜ:/ sound: /ə/ + /r/

girl
learn
turn
earth
nurse
*Exercise 1

/æ/ /ɑ:/ /ə/ or /ʌ/ /e/

*Exercise 2: /ɜ:ʳ/ or /ɜ:/

earn girl nerd stir

burn hurt pert turn
curt hurl pearl third
church jerk rural verb
dirt curd search word
first lurk sure yearn
furl murmur slur deserve
5. The /i:/ sound
see
heat
green
tree
seat

6. The /ɪ/ sound

hit
sit
live
fish
grin

*Exercise 3

/i:/ /ɪ/
7. The /u:/ sound *Exercise 4
blue
food
rule /u:/ /ʊ/
shoe
bloom

8. The /ʊ/ sound

put
could
good
foot
pull

9. Diphtongs

/aɪ/
five, eye, thigh, dice /ɔɪ/
boy, join, noise, choice /eəʳ/ or /eə/
/aʊ/ where, air, chair, there
now, out, vow, lounge /oʊ/ or /əʊ/
go, home, joke, throw /ɪəʳ/ or /ɪə/
/eɪ/ near, here, year, beer
say, eight, they, way

10. The letter A

/æ/ cat /ɑ:/ part /eɪ/ make /ə/ final /e/ parallel /ɔ:/ war
 /æ/ /aʊ/ /u:/ /ɪ/ /i:/ /ʊ/ /e/ /eɪ/ /ə/ /ɑ:/
/ɜ:ʳ/ /ɑ:r/ /oʊ/ /aɪ/ /ɔɪ/