The odd word out is "odd". The other words - add, bead, bid, heap, hip, feet, fit, whiz, wheez, peach, pitch, reached, riched, leaking, licking, weeks, licks, leaks, reach, rich, peach, pitch, hip, heap, mop, map, add - are all real words while "odd" is not a word used in the given context of the sentences.

1. Practicing minimal pairs By Claudita Cárdenas

2. True or false? Vowels are differentiated from the consonants by their position of the tongue and the lips While vowels are produced with the help of many organs, consonants depend only on the position of the tongue and the lips The position of the tongue and the lips allow for a great amount of variation enabling us to voice many more than the familiar five vowels.

3. English has more than a dozen different vowels and we find many diphthongs Vowels can be produced by raising the tongue high, keeping it in the middle or low in the mouth Vowels can be produced alone and may be short or long

4. CLOSE VOWELS Lips spread, tongue tense. Sides of the tongue touch upper modals (key. cheese, scene, police, people) Lips spread loosely, tongue more relaxed. Sides of tongue may touch upper molars (rhythm, sieve, hit, sausage) Lips rounded, tongue relaxed, gorilla noise (book, good, woman, push, pull) Lips rounded, tongue tense, use a rising and falling intonation (food, rude, true, who, fruit )

5. MID VOWELS Lips loosely spread, tongue tenser than for i: (egg, left, said, head) Lips relaxed and neutrally spread, as though you were completely exhausted (about- paper- banana, nation) Lips relaxed and neutrally spread (shirt, her, word, further) Lips loosely rounded (fork, call, snore, taught)

6. OPEN VOWELS Lips neutrally open (hat, attack, antique) Lips neutrally open (run, uncle, front, nourish, does) Tongue in the fully open position, Lips neutrally open (far, part, class, half) Tongue in the fully open position, lips lightly rounded (dog, often, cough, want)

7. VOWELS

8. VOWELS

9. - the same letters can have different vowel sound: S ou p c ou ple b ou ght /u:/ /ʌ/ /ɔ:/ -different letters can have the same vowel sound: S ou p b oo ts s ui t /u:/ /u:/ /u:/

10. Cross out the word which does not contain the vowel sound on the left. /e/ bread wom a n e ggs m a ny /ʌ/ en ou gh br o ther s u gar much /ɒ/ o nion c o ffee lot what /ɜ:/ shirt pork world univ e rsity /i:/ cheese tea wine magaz i nes /ɑ:/ car c a rrots half aren´t /ɪ/ buildings little birds milk /u:/ shamp oo look fruit two

11. 4. Listen and circle the symbol that matches the sound of the underlined letters. B u s /ʊ/ /ʌ/ T a ll /ɑ:/ /ɔ:/ W or d /ɜ:/ /ɔ:/ G oo d /ʊ/ /ɔ:/ P ar k /æ/ /ɑ:/ Sh o p /ʌ/ /ɒ/ A pples /æ/ /ə/ Bl ue /ʊ/ /u:/ Cig a rette /ʌ/ /ə/

12. To make the sound /u:/, make your lips very round and hard. make the sound long. /u:/ /ʊ/ . Practise making the sounds To make the sound /ʊ/, open your lips a little and make them a little round. Keep the sound short.

13. THE SOUNDS /ʊ/ AND /u:/ Full Fool Pull Pool Look Luke Soot Suit

14. To make the sound /i:/, smile and open your mouth a little. /i:/ is a long sound. It comes in the words feet and seat. To make the sound /ɪ/, open your mouth a little more. /ɪ/ is a short sound. It comes in the words fit and sit.

15. feet fit seat sit steal still feel fill jeans gins beans bins team Tim cheap chip peach pitch leave live THE SOUNDS /i:/ AND /ɪ/

16. Now you … Teacher Kitchen Work Cinema Who Book Five Away Car Study Ball Hot Pen Cat Hit See Boy Bed Onion Sugar Say Birds Look Wine Carrots Now Word Tall Park Good Key Apple

17. Complete the statements with the appropriate word

18. sh ee p

19. h i t

20. ee l

21. s i eve

22. l ea ve

23. sh i p

24. h ea t

25. i ll

26. r e ceive

27. l i ve

28. Match the similar words Sheep Receive Leave Heat Eel ill Live Hit Sieve Ship

29. ANSWER Sheep Heat Eel Receive Leave Ship Hit ill Sieve live

30. A necklace of brown glass ______ Beads Bids

31. She broke her _______ falling down the stairs Heap Hip

32. Those shoes don’t _______ her _______. feet, fit Fit, feet

33. He made a ____ of $150 for the painting Bead Bid

34. Everytime he wants to play, he begins to ______; he’s really sick Whiz Wheez

35. He’s so brilliant. He’s a _____ at mathematics Whiz Wheez

36. This is the football _______ Peach Pitch

37. She _______ for her gun Reached Riched

38. Diane’s ___________ her lollipop Leaking Licking

39. There are 52 _______ in a year Weeks Wicks

40. The tap ______ all day, we have to get it fixed Licks Leaks

41. My parents in law are ______ enough to buy an airplane Reach Rich

42. Her face is as soft as a _______ Peach Pitch

43. That _______ of rubish stinks Hip Heap

44. The tornado was so devastating that whole cities were wiped off the ________ Mop Map

45. She must be a whiz! Are you telling me that she can ____ at the age of 2? Add Odd

46. What she ______ in beauty, she makes up for brains Lacks Locks

47. A _______ is a bundle of coarse yarn, a sponge, or other absorbent material, fastened at the end of a stick or handle for washing floors Mop Map

48. A candle _______ is string, cord, or wooden object that holds the flame of a candle . Week Wick

49. The documents of the new exports policies are quintessential for the company. That’s why they are under ____ and key Lack Lock

50. When we are in need for a _____ they don’t show up Cab Cob

51. I can’t believe that Luren let the ______ out of the bag. Everybody was in shock. Cot Cat

52. Do you know how to grill corn on the ____? Cab Cob

53. That _____ is a nightmare! Firs, I couldn’t sleep and second, my whole body was aching the next day Cat Cot

54. Choose the ______ word out? a. add b. odd