The /υ/-gliding diphthongs /aυ / and /әυ/. The vowel sound /aυ/ as in “cow”
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the instruction to learn how to make the long sound /aυ/.
The English diphthong / aυ / begins as the front open /a/ and proceeds in the direction of the English /υ/. The lips are neutral.
Listen to the target sound and the words and repeat. Look at the mouth diagrams to help you position your lips, tongue and jaw for the target sound. Transcribe the words.
/a a aυ/
/a a aυ/
/aυ aυ aυ/
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Spelling variations for the /aυ/ sound. |
Highlighted bold letters are pronounced as /aυ/. |
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ou
ow |
found, mouse, sprout, bounce, shout, loud, doubt, scout, mountain, thousand, fountain prow, trowel, vowel, owl, now, endow, flower |
Read these words with the sound /aυ/. Transcribe them.
Found, houses, town, now, house, ground, cow, now, about, how, sound, around, count, south, down.
Listen to the sentences and repeat. Read each sentence aloud slowly at first, then as if you were telling it to someone in a natural way.
No doubt we can find thousands of flowers in the Swiss mountains.
How now brown cow.
I saw a clown shouting in the town.
Here lies the body of Jonathan Pound who was last seen at sea and never found.
The loud sound of the hounds confounded the brown mouse.
With a shout, the boy found a thousand pounds to the south of the town.
Read the following sentences. Mind the right articulation of the sounds /aυ/.
Mrs. Brown counted cows coming down the mountains.
Our brown cow has been found.
I have plowed the ground around the house.
She shouted loudly when she found a mouse among the flowers.
The owl came down from the mountain.
The Boy Scout bowed to the crowd.
Count me out for about an hour.
He scowled at the crowd that was shouting around town.
Somehow I doubt if it’s a brown trout.
The mouth is usually rounded in shouting.
The sound was found to be a compound of vowels.
L
isten
and copy the intonation and voice modulation on the CD.
Teddy worried about
The fact that he was rather stout.
But now he is proud of being short and stout.
Practice reading the tongue twister as quickly as you can. Be careful not to mispronounce the target sound / aυ /.
Sounding by sound is a sound method of sounding sounds.
Listen to the dialogue. Intone it. Learn and reproduce, paying attention to the pronunciation of the sound /aυ/, intonation and tempo.
Dialogue 1
- Is Howard in or out?
- Howard! Howard!
- It sounds as if he’s out.
- I’ll shout a bit louder. Howard!
- Howard! Sue Brown’s in town.
- Mm. It sounds as if he’s in.
Dialogue 2
A Mouse in the House
(shoutinglo udly) I'VE FOUND AMOUSE!
Ow! You're shouting too loudly. Sit down and don't frown.
(sittingd own) I've found a mouse in the house.
A town mouse?
Yes. A little round mouse. It's running around in the lounge.
On the ground?
Yes. It's under the couch now
Well, get it out.
How?
Turn the couch upside down. Get it out somehow. We don't want a
mouse in our house. Ours is the cleanest house in the town!
Learn the following graphical rules:
Vowel / aυ / is represented in spelling by:
The diagraphs “ou”, “ow” (out, town)
Rare Spellings: drought, bough, plough
Find Ukrainian equivalents to the proverbs and sayings. Learn them:
A sound mind in a sound body.
Every cloud has a silver lining.
Actions speak louder than words.
To come out dry.
When angry, count a hundred.