Examples

/i:/
Examples Transcription Meaning Examples Transcription Meaning

sheep Group 1

meal scene
marine complete

see cede
bean secede
heel benzene
peel kerosene
cheap Vietnamese
seat Group 2
eat tea
leek meal
cheek easy
meat cheap
cheese meat
tea dream
pea heat
three neat
key breathe
fleece creature
machine east

Group 3: Group 4:
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three receive
see ceiling
free receipt
heel seize
screen deceive
cheese seignior
agree
guarantee

Examples Transcription Meaning

grief
chief
believe
belief

Pham Thi Hong Nhung

relieve
relief
grievance
grievous

/ɪ/
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him Group 1
hymn village
sin cottage
ship shortage
bin baggage
it courage
sit damage
lick luggage
chick message
pill voyage
begin passage
picture Group 2
miss begin
hill become
king behave
six defrost
wig decide
grin dethrone
fish renew

Group 3 Group 4
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build
win guilt
miss guinea
ship guitar
bit quilt
sit quixotic
kit equivalent
din colloquial
dim mosquito
grin
him

Pham Thi Hong Nhung

 twin

Short Vowel /ʊ/

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put Group 1
cook wolf
good woman
look Group 2
rook book
book good
would look
could wool
woman cook
wolf foot
full wood
pull took
foot
3.
Examples Transcription Meanings
could
should
would
Long vowel /u:/
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you Group 1
too do
shoe move
blue lose
Luke prove
fool tomb
pool remove
food Group 2
glue blue
choose brute
hoop flute
boot brutal
coot lunar
two salute
who lunacy
whose lunatic
true lubricant

Pham Thi Hong Nhung

sue Group 3
chew croup
brew group
eschew troupe
cruise douche
route wounded
through croupier

Group 4 Group 5
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cool bruise
food bruit
too fruit
pool juice
goose cruise
cruiser
spoon recruit
tool
tooth fluid
sooth ruin
soothe
booby
booty
bamboo
boohoo
cuckoo
googoogly
doomsday
Short vowel /ɒ/
Examples Transcription Meanings Examples Transcription Meanings
shot Group 1
lock dog
cot stop
pot bottle
shock bother
top dolmen
box
block
body
lot
odd
hop
comma

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 rob
robbery
stop
Long vowel /ɔː/
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horse Group 1
ball born

four corpse
caught horn
cord lord
port north
fork pork
sport sort
short thorn
gore adorn
pour corner
awful corpulent
court fortify
auction hormone
pause mordant

cortisone morning
bought portable
or portrait
Identify the vowels which are pronounce /ɔː/
Group 2 Group 3
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tall fault
call haunt
small launch
fall audience
ball daughter
hall naughty
wall laundry
stall maunder
squall
Group 4 Group 5
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law board
bawl coarse
dawn soar
crawl hoar

Pham Thi Hong Nhung

draw hoarse
awful oar
awkward roar
bawdy
tawny
mawkish
Short vowel /æ/
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cat hat
had sad
paddle fat
shall bank
gnat map
axe fan
pan slang
man tan
sad rank
bag dam
Brad thanks
jam thatch
bad chasm
pat candle
perhaps captain
black baptize
slack latter
bang narrow
hand manner
calculate
unhappy

Long vowel /ɑː/

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bar bar
guard father
heart start
father hard
start carp
hard smart

Pham Thi Hong Nhung

carp guard
cart heart
barn hearken
March laugh
marvelous draught
smart aunt
hearken laurel
laugh
Long vowel /ɜ:/
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bird Group 1
word Work
burst World
fur Word
burden Worse
herd Worship
world Group 2
were Burn
colonel Burglar
courtesy burly
curl curtain
girl Group 3
early bird
search herd
sir were
surgeon courtesy
occur girl
circuit early
search
sir
circuit
Short vowel /ə/
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banal Group 1
letter banana
calendar sofa
picture apartment
figure separate
thorough changeable
madam balance
nation explanation

Pham Thi Hong Nhung

woman capacity
accept national
effort magnanimity
from Group 2
around famous
available dangerous
surprise anxious
ago

Group 3 Group 4
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answer atom
mother bosom
silent compare
open control
continue
prudent freedom
generous handsome
different random
sentence rancorous
punishment pardon
cordon
Group 5
Examples Transcription Meaning
upon
picture
suggest
surprise

Diphthong /əʊ/
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load Group 1
home go
most no
pole ago
coat mosquito
boat potato
cold tomato
comb toe
though Group 2
thorough coat
stole road

Pham Thi Hong Nhung

 bowl coal
old loan
roll moan
toe goat
no moat
go soap
slow coast
load
Identify the vowels which are pronounce /əʊ/
Group 3 Group 4
Examples Transcription Meaning Examples Transcription Meaning
know soul
slow dough
widow mould
window shoulder
bowl poultry
grow
low
tomorrow
arrow
Diphthong /aʊ/
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cow Group 1
house found
now cloud
foul bound
about doubt
flower hound
allow loud
out mouth
how plough
plough south
route stout
ouch around
bow county
brow sound
grouse fountain
mountain
Identify the vowels which are pronounce /aʊ/
Group 2
Examples Transcription Meanings
tower

Pham Thi Hong Nhung

power
powder
crown
drown
plow
brow
fowl
jowl
coward

Pham Thi Hong Nhung