UNIT 2: /e/ EGG, /æ/ HAND & /ʌ/ UP

TASK 2: write in this table:

/æ/+/ʌ/ /ʌ/ + /æ/ / æ/+/æ/ /ʌ/+/ʌ/

 Stand up  A hungry  A plastic  Somewhere
 A jazz club cat bag sunny
 A gun  A traffic  Hurry up
factory jam  A lucky
 A  A black number
company jacket  Nothing
manager much

TASK 3: circle the words containing /e/, underline those containing /ʌ/ and
square those containing /æ/
- Eddie and Ellen spent ten days on expensive holiday in America.
/e/ /e/ /e/
- Jenny spent ten pence on expensive cigarettes.
/e/ /e/ /e/ /e/ /e/ /e/
- There was a red van travelling west, and several cars and vans behind it.
/e/ /e/ /æ/ /e/ /e/ /æ/
- An accident happened. One of the passengers was a hijacker.
/æ/ /æ/ /æ/
- My brother and my cousin come to my hut for lunch.
/ʌ/ /ʌ/ /ʌ/ /ʌ/
- A fat woman in a red hat was carrying a big black handbag in her left hand.
/æ/ /e/ /æ/ /æ/ /æ/ /æ/ /æ/ /æ/
- Russ was so sad and unhappy. Her boyfriend went away because she
/æ/ /æ/ /ʌ/ /e/
wasn’t as so lovely and wonderful as everyone had said.
/ʌ/ /ʌ/ /e/ /ʌ/ /e/
- My uncle Cuthbert went to London and spent a lot of money. He bought a
/ʌ/ /e/ /ʌ/ /e/ /ʌ/
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/ʌ/

TASK 4: bug sacks bed tan ton bag sex bad ten
/ʌ/ /æ/ /e/ /æ/ /æ/ /ʌ/ /ʌ/ /e/ /e/

Sucks Ben bud bun beg ban

/ʌ/ /e/ /ʌ/ /ʌ/ /e/ /æ/

UNIT 3: /ɒ/ HOT & /ɔ:/ SAW

3.PRACTICE:
Task 1: Distinguish between /ɒ/ and /ɔ:/
b. Write the words you hear
not, stalk, pot, court, sport, cod, cork, fox,cord.
c. Write the words you hear
1. They couldn’t find the fox/forks
2. the pot/port was very old
3. we saw the spot/sport
4. the cod/cord isn’t very good
5. the cock/ cork has been stolen
Task 2 : Circle the words containing /ɒ/ and underline those containing /ɔ:/
- Hot water
- Knock at the door
- Stop talking
- A bottle of port
- Four o’ clock
- A tall bottle
- A small shop
- Talk to the doctor
Task 3: In the brackets above each underlined the words, wire the phonetic
symbol: /^/ , /ɒ/ and /ɔ:/
1. Don was done at dawn
/ɒ/ /^/ /ɔ:/
2. Maude mowed the lawn in mud
/ɒ/ /ɔ:/
3. Bud bought a hors
/ɔ:/ /ɔ:/
4. She caught her coat on the cod
/ɔ:/ /ɒ/
5. The caller’s collar is a nice color
/ɔ:/ /ɒ/
6. It never lost, of course
/ɒ/ /ɔ:/
7. Who got very confused on the job
/ɒ/ /ɒ/ /ɒ/
8. Bud had a lucky young son name Jud .
/^/ / ^/ /^/ /^/

UNIT 4 : /u:/ FOOD /ʊ/ PUT

3.Practice:
Task 1: Distinguish between /u:/ and /ʊ/.
a. Listen and practice
b. Listen and write the words you hear.
Full, pull, look, foot, pool, luke.
c. Listen. Which sound is in the words underline /u:/ and /ʊ/.
A good book is the precious life blood of s master spirit (Milton)
/ʊ/ /u:/
No sun- no moon
/u:/
No morn – no noon…..November (Hood)
/u:/
A fool and his money are soon parted (proverb)
/u:/ /u:/
I could not love thee (Dear) so much
/ʊ/
Lov’d I not honour more (Lovelace)
Beauty is truth, truth is beauty (Keats)
/u:/
I like work….. I can’t sit and look at it for hours (Jerome K.Jerome)
/ʊ/
I was a stranger and you took me in (The Bible)
/ʊ/
Task 2: All the words below include the letter “u”. How are they pronounced?
Write the correct symbol of each word:
/u:/ : Include, June, Supermaket.
/^/ : Customer, gun, Sunday, number.
/ʊ/ : Push, pull, full, put.
Task 3: Saying contrastive sentences, underline the contrastive sound.
1. This horse should be shoed
/ʊ/ /u:/
2. The pigeons could be cooed
/ʊ/ /u:/
3. Luke does not look well
/u:/ /ʊ/
4. Ken had soot on his suit
/ʊ/ /u:/
5. Who took the child’s tube?
/ʊ/ /u:/
6. Mary was wooed in the wood
/u:/ /ʊ/
7. Did you pull her into the pool
/ʊ/ /u:/
8. That fool is never full
/u:/ /ʊ/
9. Who would remove the criminal’s hood.
/ʊ/ /ʊ/

Task 4 : Ways of pronouncing oo:

Say the following sentences to yourself and write all the “oo” in the correct
columns
1. Have you read the “Good Food” to Britain ?
2. The best cooks use wooden spoon to stir the sauce
3. Look! There’s a pool of blood on the carpet
4. If I won the football pools, I’d flooded with begging letters
5. We foolishly booked a hotel room without an ensuite bathroom
6. I took my woolen jumper in case the weather turned cool in the afternoon
7. He stood on the stool and climed onto the roof

/ʊ/
Good, cooks , booked, took , stood, woolen, football /u:/
Food, pool, pools, spoon, cool , flooded, foolishly, afternoon ,stool, roof
/^/
Room, bathroom, blood

UNIT 5: /ɜ:/ BIRD & /a:/ CAR

3. Practice
Task1: Distinguish between /ɜ:/ and /a:/
a. Listen and practice
b. Listen and write the words you hear
Firm, barn, star, heard, dart, hurt, bath, purse, barn, dirt
c. Listen to the sentences. For each one, write the word you hear

1.He words for a firm/ farm in the north

2.I’ve lost my purse/ pass
3. The first/ fast leaves at seven o’clock
4. She noticed the dirt/ dart in the corner
Task 2: listen and practice this conversation
Task 3: Say /ɜ:/ & /a:/
a. Listen and read out this newspaper advertisement
b. Listen and repeat these sentences. Then circle all the word containing /ɜ:/
and /a:/
Margaret Irwin is moving into a new flat soon
Martha Kirby is going on holiday to Siberia
Marcus Irving is having a party at the weekend
Shirley Parkes is a commercial artist
Carl Parker’s son is five next week
John Darling is tall and fat