OUR QUEER LANGUAGE
I think you already know
of tough and bough and cough
and dough
Others may stumble, but not you
of hiccough, thorough, tough
and through
Well done? and how you wish, perhaps,
to learn of less familiar traps?
Beware of heard, a dreadful word
that looks like beard and sounds like bird.
and dead, it's said like bed, not bead
for goodness sake,don't call it deed!
Watch out for meat and great and threat.
They rhyme with suite and straight
and debt.
A moth is not a moth in mother
nor both in bother or in brother.
and here is not a match for there.
Nor dear and fear for bear and pear.
and there's dose and rose and lose.
Just look them up-and goose and choose,
And cork and work and card and ward,
and font and front and word and sword.
And do and go and thwart and cart.
Come, come; I've hardly made a start!
A dreadful language? man alive ,
I'd mastered it when I was five.
Read the following sets of words in progressions saying the vowel sounds accurately and distinctly.
Λ(cut),
hut,cut,gut,cud,shut
э(about),
upon,alarm,alike,ago,alert,
ai(mine)
I,eye,diamond,might,mice
oi(boy
coin,boil,soil,toy,point
au(cloud),
clown,crowd,found,impound,thousand
u(old)
order,or,all,audition,alter
α:(r)(car),
bar,art,ark,arbitrary,archipelago
o:(r)(door)
floor,pour,door,four,tore
э:r(curd)
earn,earth,birth,burn,hurry
эr(keeper)
sweeper,traitor,speaker,listener
Listening Test
Instructions: Listen carefully as the Teacher reads the words and sentences.Type the correct words and sentences in your skype chat box.
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