Long Vowel Sounds

By: Pujiarti, MA
Learning Objectives
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• By the end of the session, the students get to know the long vowel
sounds.
• By the end of the session, the students are able to pronounce words
containing long vowel sounds.
• By the end of the session, the students are able to distinguish words
containing short and long vowel sounds and how to pronounce them
correctly.
What do you remember from last meeting?
• What did you learn?
• How did you see yourself pronouncing the sounds?
• What are some examples of words containing short vowel sounds?
Introduction
• Long vowel is the term used to refer to vowel sound whose pronunciation is the
same as its letter name.
• There are five vowels in the English spelling system (‘a’, ‘e’, ‘i’, ‘o’, ‘u’) and each
has a corresponding long vowel sound /eɪ/, /i/, /ɑɪ/, /oʊ/, /yu/.
• The long vowel sounds are usually the easiest sounds that non-native English
speaker can produce.
Introduction
Let’s Practice
> The long A sound
Example: bake, cake, way, pay, rate, fame, raid.
Example in a sentences:
a. How do you bake a banana cake?
b. There is no way I can pay the rent.
c. The exchange rate for US Dollar is getting stronger.
d. As a singer, she gets all the fame.
e. Did you hear about the police raid last weekend?
Let’s practice
➢Long E words
Example of words: be, see, beam, deemed, and scene.
Example in the sentences:
• To be or not to be. That is the question.
• Pete plans to see her again soon.
• The gymnast excels on the high beam.
• The behavior was deemed inappropriate by the ethics board.
• That was quite the scene at the deli.
Let’s practice
➢Long I words
Example in words: I, pine, aisle, right, fine.
Example in the sentences:
• Sara and I are going to the movies.
• The pine needles are everywhere!
• You'll find the jam in the bread aisle.
• Take a right turn at the next intersection.
• Everything is going to be just fine.
Let’s Practice
➢Long O words
Example in words: lone, road, so, hoe, tow.
Example in sentences:
• The Lone Ranger is a famous fictional character.
• The country road isn't paved.
• Herbert was so excited, he started jumping up and down.
• Can you fetch me a hoe from the garden shed?
• The tow truck arrived just in time.
Let’s practice
➢Long U words
Example in words: rude, statue, duke, queue, cue.
Example in sentences:
• The rude waitress still hasn't taken our order.
• Have you seen the Statue of Liberty?
• The Duke and Duchess of York visited recently.
• With a queue like that, we can expect a very long wait.
• There he is, right on cue.
Home Assignment
1. Find new 10 words containing the long vowel sound of a, e, i, o, and u. Create a
list from the total 50 words that you have.
2. Create a dialogue with your friends using at least 10 words containing long
vowel sounds from the list that you have collected.
3. Record your dialogue (audio or video) and send it to the share folder:
https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1twxUMDBDJiyBJYvGI3X8C7_hLobqRu
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4. To submit your recording, give a title of Assignment 2_your name.
5. Please submit the assignment before Monday, 17 October 2022.