Swan swam over the sea. Swim, swan, swim.
Swan swam back again. Well swam, swan.
Draw a pail of water
For my Eddys daughter.
[ u ]
BUT! [ Λ ]
² Activity 1. Listen and repeat the words paying attention to the sound [u] .
A.
put-pull-pulley-bull-full-bush-push-pudding-pussy-butcher
book-cook-hook-look-rook-brook-took-good-hood-food-mood-stood
foot-soot-wool
would-could-should
careful-wonderful-wonderful-beautiful-restful
wolf-woman-sugar
B. full awfully wood woodland hook hooker
full spoonful good goodness foot footstep
hood childhood hood manhood wool woolsack
book bookstall put output book bookish
wood woodbine wolf wolfish look looking glass
bush bushwhack bull bulletin hood hoodwink
C.
good good afternoon goodbye good-for-nothing good-hearted
good-looking
cook cooker cookbook cookery cookie cooking
could couldnt should shouldnt would wouldnt
foot footer footing footlights footmark footpath footstep footwear
full fulfill fulfillment fullback fullness full name full length fully
hood hoodwink childhood manhood
look looker looking-glass look-alike lookout
puss pussy pussy cat pussyfoot
push pushy push cart pusher pushover pushup
wood woodblock woodcut wooded wooden
² Activity 2. Contrasting Sound Practice
Listen and repeat the words paying attention to the sounds.
[ u ] - [ u: ] [ u ] - [ כ ]
pull pool full fool good god cook - cock
soot sooth put boot pull pot soot sock
hood mood bull school hood hot boot bottle
cook cool foot food look lock took stocking
rook root wool wound could cod rook rock
Activity 3. Read the sentences. Mind the reading rules.
Could you if you would?
It looks good.
Keep a good lookout.
Would you help the woman, if you could?
Could I cook the food myself?
The food was very good.
It should be good wool.
I took him to the woods.
He looked for the sugar.
Did you put much sugar in your tea?
Look! They shook hands.
How good of them.
Activity 4. Read the proverbs according to the reading rules.
Activity 5. Read the rhymes. Mind the sound [ u ].
The Listening Woods.
I looked at the shadowed mosses,
I looked at the nests overhead,
I looked at the small brook dreaming
Alone in its sandy bed.
Ida W. Benham
² Activity 6. Listen to the speaker and imitate the tongue twister.
Learn it by heart.
How much wood would a woodchuck chuck
If a woodchuck could chuck wood?
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He would chuck, he would, as much as he could,
And chuck as much wood as a woodchuck would
If a woodchuck could chuck wood.
[ u: ] [ ju: ]
² Activity 1. Listen and repeat the words paying attention to the sound [u:] .
A.
rue-rule-rude-flu-true-glue-truce-blue-assume-Cupid-clue
boo-cool-moon-coon-noon-spoon-too-zoo-boot-hoot-room-boom
group-soup-wound-bouquet-cougar
bruise-cruise-juice-junior-fruit-suit
crew-mew-new-view-knew
pneumatic-pneumonia-neuter-neutral-queue
move-prove
tomb-who-whom-whose
B. fruit grape-fruit rude rudeness rue rueful
pool swimming pool tune Neptune flue fluent
truth truthful view interview boom boomerang
screw screwdriver cool coolness amuse amusement
tooth toothbrush root beetroot new newborn
C.
bloom bloomer blooming
cool coolant cool box cooler cool head coolly
fool foolish foolproof fools cap fools paradise
brute brutal brutality brutish
humour humorous humourless humorist
cruise cruise control cruise liner cruiser cruise ship
amuse amusing amusement
music musical musician musicianship
fruit fruitcake fruitful fruitless fruity
new newborn newcomer newlyweds news newspaper
² Activity 2. Contrasting Sound Practice