Vowel Level Test

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