Unit_v03_[Λ]_cut

Let's practice

Words

hut

muscles

monkey

`

jump

puppy

Other word examples

Directions: Read the following words, phrases, sentences and tongue twisters correctly saying the mid central vowel _[Λ]accurately and distinctly.

Initial

us, up, of, oven, other, ultra, ugly, upper, until, unable, umbrella

Medial

cut, hut, nut, son, cup, bud, jump, love, sun, much, double, tongue, color, muscles, funny, butter, comfort, some, summer,luck

Phrases

summer months junk food

won some money double trouble

fun in the sun ugly puppy

until sunday much luck

water pump upper arm muscle

Sentences

1. Some friends will come for lunch.

2. The ugly puppy had some fun playing in the sun.

3. Last Monday,we were lucky to have won much money.

4. She baked a sponge cake and upside down butter cake in her oven.

5. The water pump is useful during summer months.

Tongue Twisters

1. A skunk sat on a stump

and thunk the stump stunk,

but the stump thunk the skunk stunk.

2. Black bug's blood.

Article reading

A Haircut

It was time for a haircut. Lenny didn't even have to look in the mirror. Even though he was going bald, he knew that he needed to cut his hair every two weeks.

He had a "tongue" of hair on the top of his head. His hair was thinning at the crown. He still had plenty of hair on the sides and back. It was what they call "salt and pepper," a mixture of gray hair and dark brown hair. It was only a few years, he figured, until the salt and pepper became just salt.

He never let his hair grow for more than two weeks. The longer it got, the worse it looked, he thought.

He spread a newspaper over the bathroom sink so that no hair went down the drain. He plugged in the clippers and started cutting his hair. He started at the back of his head, went to the sides, and finished on the top. Every minute or so, he had to clean the hair out of the blades with an old toothbrush.

Finished, he picked up a hand mirror to check out the back of his head. Everything looked okay. He carried the newspaper back out to the kitchen and shook the hair clippings into the trash can.

Then he took a shower.

Exercise 1:

Instructions: Describe the picture below in as many words as you can. Be very keen to the details.