She took the book and put it under her foot.
Practice 1 Listen and repeat:
| Sound 1 | Sound 2 |
| pot | put |
| cock | cook |
| God | good |
| lock | look |
| rock | rook |
| box | books |
Test Tick the words you recognise in the sentences you hear:
1 a) cock; b) cook
2a) lock; b) look
3 a) god; b) good
4 a) cod; b) could
5 a) Poss; b) Puss
6 a) Brockhurst; b) Brookhurst
Practice 2 Listen and repeat:
| put | full | cookery books |
| look | woman | shouldnt you |
| good | bedroom | didnt you |
| foot | living room | Mr Cook |
| could | bookshelf |
Dialogue: A lost book
| Mr Cook: | Woman! Could you tell me where youve put my book? |
| Mrs Cook: | Isn't it on the bookshelf? |
| Mr Cook: | No. The bookshelf is full of your cookery books. |
| Mrs Cook: | Then you should look in the bedroom, shouldn't you? |
| Mr Cook: | I've looked. You took that book and put it somewhere didn't you? |
| Mrs Cook: | The living-room? |
| Mr Cook: | No. I've looked. I'm going to put all my books in a box and lock it! |
| Mrs Cook: | Look, Mr Cook! It's on the floor next to your foot. |
| Mr Cook: | Ah! Good! |
Unit 11 [ u: ] boot
He was soon in a gloomy mood.
Only a fool swims as a rule in a cool pool.
Who said that the soup was too cool?
Practice 1 Listen and repeat:
| Sound 1 | Sound 2 |
| look | Luke |
| pull | pool |
| full | fool |
| foot | boot |
Test Tick the words you recognise in the sentences you hear:
1 a) look; b) Luke
2 a) full; b) fool
3 a) pull; b) pool
4 a) fullish; b) foolish
Practice 2 Listen and repeat:
| Sue | June | soup |
| Prue | unit | stupid |
| shoe | afternoon | nuisance |
| threw | excuse me | Miss Luke |
| twenty two | chewing gum | |
| It was YOU! | rude |
Dialogue: In a good school
| Miss Luke: | Good afternoon, girls. |
| Girls: | Good afternoon, Miss Luke |
| Miss Luke: | This afternoon we're going to learn how to cook soup. Open your books at unit twenty-two |
| Prue: | Excuse me, Miss Luke. |
| Miss Luke: | Yes, Prue? |
| Prue: | There's some chewing gum on your shoe. |
| Miss Luke: | Who threw their chewing gum on the floor? Was it you, Prue? |
| Prue: | No, Miss Luke. It was June. |
| Miss Luke: | Who? |
| Prue: | June Cook |
| June: | It wasn't me, stupid. It was Sue. |
| Sue: | It was you! |
| June: | It wasn't me, you stupid fool. My mouth's full of chewing gum. Look Miss Luke |
| Sue: | Stop pulling my hair, June. It was you! |
| June: | YOU! |
| Sue: | YOU! |
| Miss Luke: | Excuse me! You're being very rude. You two nuisances can stay in school this afternoon instead of going to the swimming pool. |
Unit 12 [ə:] girl
She didnt tell the girl was dirty
She said the girl was thirty.
Will Bertha be thirty on her birthday next Thursday?
The nurse said that her first patient was worse than her third.
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The purple turban edged with fur and worked with thirty pearls
was purchased by a Persian merchant.
Its early bird that catches the warm.
First come first served.
Practice 1 Listen and repeat: Practice 2 Listen and repeat:
| Sound 1 | Sound 2 | Sound 1 | Sound 2 |
| four | fur | ten | turn |
| torn | turn | Ben | burn |
| Paul | pearl | bed | bird |
| warm | worn | head | heard |
| ward | word | west | worst |
| walker | worker | kennel | colonel |
Practice 3 Listen and repeat:
| Sound 1 | Sound 2 |
| shut | shirt |
| huts | hurts |
| bun | burn |
| bud | bird |
| bug | berg |
| gull | girl |
Test Tick the words you recognise in the sentences you hear:
1 a) bed; b) bud; c) bird
2 a) Ben's; b) buns; c) burns
3 a) ward; b) word
4 a) walk; b) work
5 a) short; b) shirt
6 a) or; b) er
Practice 4 Listen and repeat:
| er | Herbert | ||
| sir | Sherman | worst | skirts |
| early | Turner | thirsty | shirts |
| world | weren't | dirty | nurse |
| Thursday | colonel | Burton | Curse these nurses |
Dialogue: The worst nurse
| Sir Herbert: | Nurse! |
| Colonel Burton: | Nurse! I'm thirsty! |
| Sir Herbert: | Nurse! My head hurts! |
| Colonel Burton: | NURSE! |
| Sir Herbert: | Curse these nurses! |
| Colonel Burton: | Nurse Sherman always wears such dirty shirts. |
| Sir Herbert: | And such short skirts. |
| Colonel Burton: | She never arrives at work early |
| Sir Herbert: | She and... er... Nurse Turner weren't at work on Thursday, were they? |
| Colonel Burton: | No, they, weren't |
| Sir Herbert: | Nurse Sherman is the worst nurse in the ward, isn't she? |
| Colonel Burton: | No, she isn't. She's the worst nurse in the world! |
Unit 13 [ə] camera
We never know the value of water till the water is dry.
Practice 1
We use the sound /ə/ in words and syllables that are not important. Practice these. In the words on the right the spelling has been changed to show you when to make the sound /ə/.
Listen and repeat:
| a photograph of Barbara | ə photəgrəph əf Barbərə |
| a glass of water | ə glass əf watə |
| a pair of binoculars | ə pair əf binoculərs |
| a photograph of her mother and father | ə photəgrəph əf hə mothər ənd fathə |
| a book about South America | ə book əbout South əmericə |
Now practice these:
Example:
A: What's the time?
B: It's a quart ə t ə twelve.
