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Exercise 1: List one-syllable words closed by /p/ which contain the

following vowels. Do not include names or words of foreign origin.


ɪ ___ship___ aɪ ___type_____
eɪ ___tape___ e __envelope__
æ ___tap____ ɒ ___top_____
ɔː __gawp_____ əʊ __soap______
uː __group___ ʌ ___cup_____
Exercise 2:
1. Which of the following words contains a rounded vowel?
put seek hook grew grey hoe hold
2.Which of the following words contains a front vowel?
see seat met tap throw tape through
3. Which of the following words contains a high vowel?
see seat steak throw list lost through
4. Which of the following words contains a central vowel?
about put luck hit purse father kept
5. Which of the following words contains a high back vowel?
put love hit heat luck look food
Exercise 3:
1.What do the vowels in these words have in common?
bet hair rose post love purse mate
2. What do the vowels in these words have in common?
see leap weird pit fiend miss crypt
3. What do the vowels in these words have in common?
height boy try noise loud crowd tine
4.What do the vowels in these words have in common?
flea rude piece flu stew leave sees
Exercise 4:
Give as detailed a description as you can of the vowels in the following words:
Leaving: [i:] long close front unrounded
[I] short near-close front unrounded
hear: [I] short near-close front unrounded
thoroughly:[3:] long open-mid front unrounded
[ə] short close-mid central unrounded
[i] short close front unrounded
fast: [æ] short near-open front unrounded
haste: [e] short open-mid front unrounded
[I] short close front unrounded
lookalike: [ʊ] short near-close back rounded
Sausage:[ɑː]long open back rounded
Ooze:long close back rounded

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