Read the words aloud before doing the

exercise. Pay special attention to the sound

marked in red.

Read each word and compare the sound

of the letters in red with the word in ODD ONE OUT
parentheses. Circle the word with different vowel sound:
1. weak – health – cheap – leak
2. blood – choose – goose – lose
3. pocket – awesome – lot – love
ODD ONE OUT
4. uncle –guy – undo – unfold
Underline the word which sound doesn’t match the
5. cut – turn – tune – guts
word in parentheses:
6; dime – it – vivid – this
1 - backpack - apple - came (bad)
7. bed – men – head – these
2 - Struggle - frugal - nuts (cut)
8. threw – new – sue – door
3 – think - thus - there (those)
9. now – know – throw – hello
4 – thanks - theme - though (thought)
10. cow – now – loud – low
5 – fear - enough - psyco (photocopy)
6 – characteristic - scene - scorn (confident)
7 – cheap - charm - scheme (chair)
8 – skeptic - ceramic - school (caramel)
Pay attention to the regular verb ending
9 – unicorn - one - wagon (sandwich)
Say sounds when doing the next exercises:
10 – strategy - government - juice (heritage)
the
words
Mark with an “X” the past or regular verbs that
aloud
end with /t/ sound:
and
mark laughed ( ); wandered ( ); asked ( ); stepped ( );
coughed ( ); shopped ( ); questioned ( ); raised ( );
the
dismissed ( ); talked ( ); waited ( ); noticed ( )
ones
with
Mark with an “X” the words with “s” sound:
the
as ( ); issue ( ); assessment ( ); harass ( ); embarrass (
requir
) Mark with an “X” the regular verbs in the past
ed that end with /əd/ (Id) sound:
sound:
interested ( ); listened ( ); scorched ( ); managed
( ); started ( ); visited ( ); terrified ( ); stated ( );
Mark the words with “z” sound: mortified ( ); harassed ( ); viewed ( ); landed ( )

abused ( ); house ( ); blouse ( ); this ( ); those ( );

snow ( ); is ( ); to exercise ( ); shoes ( ); yes ( );
because ( ); excuses ( )
Mark with an “X” the past of regular verbs that
end with /d/ sound:

estimated ( ); amazed ( ); finished ( ); stopped ( );

After doing all the exercises on this page, arrived ( ); turned ( ); answered ( ); walked ( );
use the phonetic transcriptions on the next phoned ( ); pretended ( ); planned ( )
page to correct them.
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