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Lesson 1: Vowel Sounds Chart
Lesson 1: Vowel Sounds Chart
Lesson 2: /eɪ/
as in make, mate, came, wait, bay, play, gray, aim, played, grade, age, plate, great, eight
The plane was delayed, so we waited and played.
Lesson 2: /æ/
as in cat, mad, sang, pan, hat, bank, hand, ham, bag, cash, has, back, catch, hat
A man in a black hat with a bag of cash in his hand.
Lesson 3: /b/
as in boy, back, cab, berry, cupboard, bought, rubber, job, bike, about, web, broke, able, tube
The boy bought a blue bike, but his new blue bike broke.
Lesson 3: /p/
as in pie, pay, lap, pull, copy, post, open, shop, park, happen, help, price, spring, jump
Penny went to post a parcel and paid a pound to park.
Lesson 4: /s/
as in sun, Sue, rice, save, sad, glasses, bus, city, concert, place, science, last, class, scream, six
Lucy sang six or seven sad songs for her last concert.
Lesson 4: /z/
as in zoo, plays, breeze, dozen, size, zero, busy, wise, scissors, bees, exact, roses
A dozen pretty roses, a thousand busy bees.
Lesson 5: /d/
as in dog, down, road, day, paid, dance, sudden, dad, daughter, advice, food, dream, address, mind
David's daughter didn't dance, but David's dad did.
Lesson 5: /t/
as in toy, tie, heart, tree, eat, taste, butter, fruit, Thomas, until, worked, train, hated, toast, twelve
Grapefruit tastes so bitter, toast and butter is better.
Lesson 6: /iː/
as in be, meet, least, pea, beat, key, scene, sea, keeps, piece, seat
Steve keeps the keys beneath the seat.
Lesson 6: /e ɛ/
as in bed, men, head, met, set, vet, friend, check, death, said, shelf, rest, many, leg
'It's best to rest,' said the vet to the pet.
Lesson 7: /ə/
weak vowels (a) as in ago, away, banana, woman, sugar,
(e) garden, paper, under,
(o) police, doctor, correct,
(u) support, figure
I ate an apple and a banana in a cinema in Canada.
Lesson 7: /ɪ/
weak vowels as in (a) orange, cabbage
(e) dances, wanted, begin, women,
(i) it, music, walking,
(u) lettuce, minute
Alex's lettuces tasted like cabbages.
Lesson 8: /f/
as in fun, few, leaf, found, coffee, photo, offer, knife, four, safer, stuff, floor, selfish, laugh, frog, gift
Freda found four frogs laughing on the floor.
Lesson 8: /v/
as in very, save, vet, van, visa, clever, drove, vote, wives, twelve, Venice, loved, of
Clever Trevor drove a van to Venice.
Lesson 9: /g/
as in gift, gate, bag, league, gave, bigger, leg, ghost, ago, egg, guest, angry, frog, grandma
Grandma gave the guests eggs and frog's legs.
Lesson 9: /k/
as in key, cap, classes, block, king, cooking, cake, cut, school, milk, queen, soccer, comic, taxi, ache
The king cooked the carrots and the queen cut the cake.
Lesson 10: /h/
as in home, hold, heat, he, head, hurry, ahead, behave, hair, heart, who, perhaps
At home, he hurried to brush the hair on his head.
Lesson 10: /w/
as in way, worse, would, we, water, what, sandwich, quick, wage, one, why, language, square
What would be worse than one quick square sandwich and water?
Lesson 10: /j/
as in yes, your, fuel, you, yellow, university, few, cure, view, year, used, euro, news, tube
Yes, the view of the yellow university was used in the euro news.
Lesson 11: /aɪ/
as in like, might, buy, type, quite, why, buy, lie, wide, lies, wife, bike, light
Mike's wife buys Mike's bike light.
Lesson 11: /ɪ/
as in it, pick, will, sit, fit, king, hill, film, kid, hid, fish, kit, hit, fit
Sid's kids knew where Sid hid the biscuit tin.
Lesson 12:
/ʃ/
as in show, short, shoot, cash, shoes, should, fashion, wish, shirt, nation, push, sugar, ocean, English
Should we show a short English shirt or shoot a picture of shoes?
Lesson 12:
/dʒ/
as in job, Joe's, June, juice, jaw, job, danger, edge, general, agent, age, July, object, village
Joe's job in June and July is a general danger to the agent and the village.
Lesson 12:
/tʃ/
as in chair, chain, chair, chips, watch, kitchen, rich, cheese, future, which, chicken, question, March
In March, we question the cheese and chicken on the chair in the kitchen.
Lesson 13: /l/
as in let, lent, collect, flies, cold, leave, caller, fill, lots , help, final, little, slow, mobile
Lola leaves lots of silly little messages on Alan's mobile.
Lesson 13: /r/
as in run, rate, pray, train, draw, rude, very, wrote, sorry, rhyme, address
Terry wrote a rude email to the wrong address and was very sorry.
Lesson 14: /ɑː(r)/
as in car, far, bar, heart, march, calm, car, harm, card, stars, hard, cart, park, half
It's hard to park a car in a dark car park.
Lesson 14: /eə(r)/
as in chair, fair, wear, dared, stairs, share, fair, hair, pear, where, shared
Sarah and Mary share their pears.
Lesson 15: /m/
as in map, mice, some, swim, miss, smoke, comb, more, jump, autumn, make, harmed, film
In autumn, the mice missed more swimming across the map.
Lesson 15: /n/
as in nice, night, warn, ran, now, snow, gone, new, dinner, open, know, against, listen
By night, the nice new snow was gone.
Lesson 15:
/ŋ/
as in thing, sung, hang, thing, sing, bang, singer, bank, think, sink, finger
The singer sung a song while washing her fingers in the sink.
Lesson 16: /əʊ/
as in go, boat, blows, coast, bowl, toe, comb, roll, code, rose, toast, coat, rope
Rose knows Joe phones Sophie, but Sophie and Joe don't know Rose knows.
Lesson 16: /ɒ or ɔ/
as in on, want, lock, got, fond, wrong, want, doll, rob, wash, dog, rock, watch, dot
Ron dropped a rock on his watch.
Lesson 17: Th /θ/
as in think, think, both, three, thank, birthday, earth, third, math, month, thought, healthy, length
Martha and Thelma both have birthdays on the third of the month.
Lesson 17: Th /ð/
as in this, they, breathe, than, these, other, though, weather, with, they, clothes, sunbathe
These clothes are perfect for sunbathing, but this weather isn't.
Lesson 18:
/ʌ/
as in us, shut, much, luck, come, young, blood, does, cut, must
The young man cut his finger and must be much more careful.
Lesson 18:
/ʊ/
as in put, look, pull, full, wolf, good, would, foot, put
The wolf would feel good if it put its foot down.
Lesson 18: /uː/
as in blue, fool, rude, boot, show, new, lose, shoot, soup
It was rude to lose the new blue boot.
Lesson 19:
/ɝ or ɜː(r)/
as in first, shirt, fur, burn, heard, worm, burn, sir, word, bird, serve, work, birth, surf
The first word the girl heard was 'bird'.
Lesson 19:
/ɔr/
as in sport, short, walk, four, ball, bore, call, war, bored, cause, wall, bought, caught, walk
Laura thought she saw her daughter falling in the water.
Lesson 20: /ɔɪ/
as in boy, point, oil, toy, boil, employ, noise, coin, voice, choice, enjoyed
Roy enjoys noisy toys.
Lesson 20: /aʊ/
as in cloud, found, now, cow, how, now, houses, sound, count, south, couch
Mrs Brown counted the cows coming down the mountain.
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