Tongue twisters
[au]
Our owl in the outfield is an outcast.
Clowns around town never frown even when they're down. Want to be a clown around town? Then never sound down and never frown.
Out of sight, out of mind.
What have you found out about it?
[3u]
Opie owns an old oak oboe.
If a big old toad jumps on the boat as we row across the moat, the boat won't float. So don't row close to the big old toads as you row across the moat, and the boat will float.
Soams never boasts of what he knows,
But Rose never knows of what she boasts.
Nobody knows how lonely the road is.
LESSON 6 Sounds [ɪə], [εə], [uə]
[ɪə]- the nucleus of the diphthong is the front-retracted, close, unrounded.
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rticulation:
Look at the diagram. The nucleus is the vowel [ɪ].
For the glide the tongue moves in the direction of the neutral vowel
[ə]. The lips are slightly spread for the nucleus and are neutral
for the glide.
Task 1 Listen and say the sound (A48).
[ɪə] is spelled:
ea - real
ear - ear beard clear hear nearly year
eer - beer cheers ere here we're
Task 2 Listen and say these sentences:
We're here!
Have a beer - cheers!
Is there a bank near here?
The meaning isn't really clear.
Task 3 Read and compare:
her - here merge - mere serve - sere germ - sphere |
merry - merely ferry - fearing error - earing terror - steering
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meat - near clean - clear bean - beer feast - fear
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[εə] - the nucleus of the diphthong is front, open, unrounded.
A
rticulation:
Look
at the diagram.
The nucleus of this diphthong is a vowel between [e] and [æ]. The
tongue is in the half-open front position. For the glide the tongue
moves in the direction of the neutral sound [ə]. The lips are
neutral.
Task 4 Listen and say the sound (A49).
[εə] is spelled:
are - care square
air - air chair fair hair stair
ear - wear
ere - where
aer - aeroplane
Task 5 Listen and say these sentences:
A: Look at that aeroplane! B: Where?
A: Up there, in the air, of course!
Task 6 Read and compare:
car - care star - stare bar - bare dark - dare
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mate - mare fail - fair state - stare rare - rarely
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ear - air beer - bear hear - hair dear - dare
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[uə]- the nucleus of the diphthong is back-advanced, close, slightly rounded.
Articulation: The nucleus of the diphthong is the vowel [u]. For the glide the tongue moves towards the neutral sound [ə], the mouth gets more open. The lips are slightly rounded and get neutral as the mouth opens for [ə].
Task 7 Listen and say the sound:
[uə] is spelled:
u - cure furious
oor - poor moor
our - tour tourist
ue - cruel fluent
ewer - fewer
uer - truer
Task 8 Listen and say these sentences:
1 It's a usual cure for a cold.
2 Curiosity is incurable.
3 The truer my friends the surer I feel.
4 I'll surely speak more fluently after a tour to Europe.
Task 9 Read and compare:
cute - cure rule - poor huge - pure rude - moor |
cur - cure urban - rural Turkey - fury purse - poor |
turret - truly - pure current - ruler - rural hurry - huger - jury flurry - music - mural |
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Task 10 Read and transcribe the words:
Dare, cute, kid, flame, out, filter, go, ruby, return, troy, fry, splash, unit, hour, show, corner, cut, current, obey, port, copy, ship, note, subject, sea, bar, fleet, fish, mob, ocean, report, flute, fireman, taboo, mince, jar, god, type, new, stir, moon, Jack, square, repeat, hire, clue, pock, museum, joint, dear.