Three types of vowel position

am - arm hand - hard match - march shake - shark frame - farm change - charge

back - bake - bark map - make - mark stand - state - start act - age - art fact - face - far strap - shape - sharp

spot - sport shot - short from - form

cock - coke - cork strong - stroke - storm not - no - nor nod - note - north

but - burn - must nurse - tune – turn hunt - huge - hurt us - use - urn cup - cube - curve fun - fuse - fur

next - nerve - end err - get – germ self - sleeve - serve text - teeth - term help - he - her best - be - berth

thick - third did - dirt ship - shirk

fifth - five - first film - fine – firm shift - shine - shirt big - bite - bird skin - sky - skirt still - style - stir

4. raw draw straw saw law lawn

cause pause sauce

form - fawn thorn - thaw lorn - lawn saw - say paw - pay law - lay haul - hail Paul - pail Maud - maid

5. war warm warn quarter word world work worker

car - war scarf - wharf cork - work horse - worse

hard ward ford word curd arm warm form worm urn

what - wait wart - wan wane- warn won - woke work - won quote - word

The linking” r”

better and better thinner and thinner later and later wider and wider darker and darker larger and larger

here and there there and then far and near pure and clear

a year and a day a chair and a table a tyre and a wheel a wire and a letter

Where is my chair? Where are my books?

The fare is cheap. The air is pure. The wire is long. The chair is black. Her hair is brown. This tyre is good. The fire is out. This pair is for us. Your chair is here. They are on the table.

Where is your English book? Here it is.

Material for Rapid Reading

A mere spark, a fair count, a square mile, a mere fragment, a loud snore, a poor painter, a rare fern, a mere scrap, a spare moment, a clear stream, a coarse skirt, a quick ear, a soft core, a square block a clear brook, a poor sailor, a coarse shirt, a mere shack, a hunting squire, a spare shilling, a tired waiter, a mere tool, a square sail, a poor serf, a mere word, a square curtain, a fair maid, a whole quire, a spare penny, a tired workman, a poor boarder, a clear style, a hoarse shout, a rare shrub, a square peg, a coarse word, a rare phase, a coarse skin, a lofty spire.

Happy hours, square toes, sour grapes, clean pores, spare time, dear sir, sheer luck, pure joy, rare fur, pure brandy, coarse war, sheer pluck, coarse fare, sheer nerve, clear speech, pure carbon, raw timber, mere play, mere form, good cheer, mere prose, sheer pride, poor Charles, sheer spite, rare sport, pure stock.

The pure snow, the poor wife, my dear girl, the happy pair, the square root, their fair share, the sere leaf, the near shore, the tire mare, the poor chap, his left ear, the poor horse.

In dire want, in clear type, in constant fear, in her tender care, in a coarse manner, in a round hole, in dire need, in a bare cave, on a clear morning, on a square slab, on a bare deck, on bare boards, on the bare stones, at the rear door, from a clear sky, of coarse yarn, of pure nickel.

With a hoarse croak, with a tired look, with bare knees, with a jaunty air, with a sore throat, with fair hair, with bare legs, with a loud roar, with a fair skin, with a hoarse cry, with rare skill, with curly hair, with a burst tyre, with sore feet, with dyed hair.

With wire netting round it, with rare birds in them, with coarse twine round it, with sour milk in it, with a coarse loaf in it, with pure lard in it, with sour beer in it.

How to read and write forms in –s and in –ed I. Read the following aloud. Say how many syllables there are in each word.

A. Acts, actors; lines, liners; meddles, meddlers; sauces, saucers; votes, voters.

B. Banks, bankers; bugles, buglers; skates, skaters; trades, traders; watches, watchers.

C. Angles, anglers; dresses, dressers; facts, factors; mines, miners; strikes, strikers. II. Make the following nouns plural, and read them aloud.

A. Army, burner, chapter, day, dollar, drawer, foe, hare, hour, jar, lady, law, oar, pair, pie, poker, quire, robber, sea, sky, sofa, sphere, teacher, toy, war, worker.

B. Baby, boy, cellar, chair, delta, duster, ear, farmer, fir, hour, jaw, knee, lie, painter, party, ray, razor, shore, sawyer, sky, squire, star, summer, toe, ware, writer.

C. Banner, car, comma, cue, driver, fair, floe, grammar, hour, joy, lawyer, mare, monster, navy, ore, partner, sailor, sentry, sky, spur, straw, tie, tyre, waiter, way, year.

III. Read the following verbs aloud, then write the infinitive form.

Blurs, blows, clears, draws, errs, frees, goes, hears, knows, mars, pays, renders, snores, sobers, sours, stirs, throws, utters.

IV. Write the infinitive form of the following. Tries, trying; ties, tying; dries, drying; dies, dying; flies, flying; lies, lying.

V. Read the following aloud and say how many syllables there are in each word. For homework write out the words in transcription.

Matted, mattered; charted, chartered; boarded, bordered; waved, wavered; begged, beggared; armed, armoured; entered, offered, differed, suffered, bothered, prospered, silvered, laboured, favoured, humoured.

VI. Read the following verbs aloud and write the infinitive form.

A. Cared, cried, died, eddied, furthered, lured, motored, mowed, ordered, owed, papered, roared, scored, snowed, spared, strayed, thawed, wired.

B. Cheered, clawed, collared, envied, fried, glowed, harboured, hired, lied, moored, owed, quartered, roared, scared, showed, squar­ed, stayed, stored.

C. Bored, cornered, cured, dirtied, doctored, feared, fired, mur­dered, numbered, owed, pawed, played, roared, rowed, shared, sowed, spied, stared, tied.

VII. Read the following aloud.

A. He cashes it, he cheats him, he draws it, he enters it, he forwards them, he paves it, she pays it, she sees her, he steers it, she traces it, he tries it.

B. She bathes them, he baits it, he bothers him, he crushes it , he draws it, he enters it, he greases them, he pays it, she pledges it, he sees it, he steers it, she waves it, he weaves it.

C. He counts them, he draws it, she enters it, she fries then, she judges it, he orders it, she plays it, he pounds it, he sees her, he steers it, she waves it.

VIII. Read the following aloud.

He bails it out, he blots them out, he blurts it out, she cleans them out, he clears it up, she coils them up, he doles it out, she dries it up, he fishes them out, she hears it out, he keeps him out she ladles it out, he leaves them out, he fishes it out, he maps out, she parcels it out, he pitches them out, he rounds it off, she scoops them out, she scratches it out, he sorts it out, he spits it out, he stirs them up, she stretches it out, she sweeps it out, she tidies it up, she ties them up, he turns him out, he turns it round, he wheels it out, he wrenches it out.

SECTION XII.

One-Syllable Words and Two-Syllable Words (Continued) The Influence of Consonant Letters on the Reading of Vowel Letters