PRONUNCIATION

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WHICH
SOUNDS DID
WE LEARN IN
THE
PREVIOUS
LESSON?

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1.
Contents
༝ How to pronounce sounds
༝ Common spelling patterns
༝ Practice
༝ Exercises
 Long vowel /ɑ:/
༝ Tongue height: Low
༝ Position of the tongue: Back
༝ - The back of the tongue is lowered
༝ Lips: Rounded, open wide
༝ Jaw: Open
༝ Long sound

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 Dark
/dɑːrk/
Car
/kɑːr/
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 Short vowel /ʌ/
༝ Tongue height: Low - mid
༝ Position of the tongue: Back
༝ - The back of the tongue is higher
༝ Lips: Unrounded
༝ Jaw: Open mid
༝ Short sound

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“ Sun
/sʌn/
Duck
/dʌk/
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Let’s compare!!!

/a:/ /ʌ/
Tongue height low Low-mid

Place of the tongue back Back (higher than /a:/)

Lips Rounded Unrounded

Duration Long short

Common spelling patterns
ar Dark, garden, carpet

a Dance, glass, bath

/a:/ Laugh, aunt, heart, guard

u Lucky, uncle, study

/ʌ/
o Come, son, money

ou Touch, young, couple

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Star /stɑːr/ Cut /kʌt/
Far /fɑːr/ Run /rʌn/
ather /’fɑːðər/ Bus /bʌs/
Love /lʌv/
Park /pɑːrk/
Enough /i’nʌf/
Cart /ka:rt/ 12
 /a:/ /ʌ/

1. Large farm
2. Wonderful summer
3. The car park is not far from the garden
4. He studies nothing on Sunday
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 Exercise 1: Listen and fill in the
blanks with words with /a:/ sound

1. Do you see my____

car in the ____
car _____?
park

2. My ____
aunt _______
laughed at my _______.
answer
chanc
3. This is my_______
e to become anartist
_____.
sunglass
4. A: I can’t remember where I put my _______
es
bathroo
B: You put them in the__________.
m
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 Exercise 2: Listen, look at the pictures
and fill in with a word with /ʌ/ sound

1. nothing 2.
run 3.
Touch 4.
blood
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 Exercise 3: Listen and
tick True or False!

/ʌ/
trouble

Hard
/ɑ:/

Guard /ʌ/

among /ɑ:/

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 Exercise 4: Circle the word with
different pronunciation

a. Glass b.rough c. son d. fun

a. laugh b. brother c. Mars d. answer

a. garden b. artist c. Mud d. Farm

a. number b. fast c. bath d. pass

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Thank you and Goodbye