Vowel Sounds

1. “Speech is the voice of the heart”.
Chinesse Proverb
Prepared by: Clarice Cagay

4.  The sound [i:] as in SEE
 be – me – he – she – we – eve – these – theme – scene – scheme – Pete
– Steve;
 compete – complete – delete – supreme – extreme – Chinese –
Maltese – Japanese –Vietnamese;
 Egypt – equal – even – evening – evil – legal – detail – female – media
– meter – Peter – secret – sequence – veto;
 recent – region – remake (n.) – regency – premium – previous –
preview;
 [i:] before final [r]
 here – mere – sphere – atmosphere; sincere – severe – interfere;
 beer – peer – cheer – sheer – steer – queer; career – engineer – pioneer
– volunteer;

5.  The sound [i] as in HIT
 hit – it – fit – bit – sit – quit – tip – dip – lip – lick – pick – sick – kiss – miss –
this;
 did – kid – lid – rid – bid – rib – lib – pig – fig – dig – his – is – Liz – live –
bridge;
 fist – list – mist – risk – disk – gift – drift – lift – stiff – fix – six – dish – fish –
rich – witch;
 fill – kill – bill – swim – him –Tim – win – pin – pink – drink – sing – bring –
rinse;

6. 1. Luke would prefer to fix his flute than to glue his shoe.
2. Is it true that Luke is a crew?
3. Luke is not in the mood to eat his food.
4. For Luke, a lot of food would be oodles of fun!
5. Luke is oozing with appeal in his new suit.
6. Luke is in the mood to play the flute.
7. Is it true that the crew has the shoe ?
8. I got no clue where to find the flute and the suit.
9. Does Luke own the flute and the suit ?
10. Luke has oodles of information about healthy food.

7.  It’s a truism that in the truest sense
of the world, thruthfulness means
we have to be true- blue and truly
truthfully telling the truth.

8.  The sound [e] as in RED
 red – bed – bet – let – met – set – dress – mess – stress – yes – rest – test
– chest – desk – deck – neck – peck; debt;
 bell – tell – sell – well – pen – men – rent – end – spend – leg – peg – help
– self;
 bent – lent – sent – spent – went – kept – crept – slept – swept – wept –
left – held – felt;
 berry – very – every – empty – better – letter – tender – central – mental
– lesson – second – sentence – entrance – fellow – yellow;
 [e] before final [r]
 care – dare – bare – rare – share – spare – stare – scare; declare –
compare – prepare;
 chair – fair – hair – air – affair – pair – stair; repair – despair;
 wear – swear – bear – pear – tear; there – where.

9.  The sound [æ] as in CAT
 bad – lad – sad – mad – had – glad – add – cab – lab – tab – bag – lag –
flag – rag – drag – tag;
 cat – rat – sat – mat – cap – lap – map – tap – wrap – back – pack – lack –
rack – sack – stack;
 catch – match – latch – batch – patch – cash – cache – clash – slash – dash
– mash – rash – crash;

10.  The sound [a:] as in CAR
 car – are – far – bar – star – card – hard – garden – pardon – yard – guard;
regard;
 harm – charm – farm – farmer – arm – army – argue – large – charge –
margin;
 start – art – artist – cart – part – party – Marty; depart – apart –
compartment;
 dark – bark – lark – park – parking – spark – mark – market – marker –
march;

11.  The sound [o:] as in MORE
 core – more – bore – shore – sore – store – tore; before – explore –
ignore;
 cord – lord – sword – order – port – sort – sport – short – fork –
pork – force – horse – north – porch – torch;
 form – norm – normal – storm – born – torn – horn – corn – corner;
 boring – story – sorry – glory – borrow – sorrow – morning – forum
– forest – orange; tomorrow;
 law – saw – draw – crawl – lawn – dawn – awful – awkward – hawk;

12.  The old man likes to eat a bowl of oatmeal.
 The audience was overwhelmed over the flow of the show.
 Worried about the omen, the old man fell on his toes and rested under
the oak tree.
 After taking a dose of medicine, the cold old man rose and went home.
 Despite the blow of problems at home, he managed to overcome them
and grow.
 I love to eat bowl of oatmeal at home.
 I picked this rose under he old oak tree.
 Can you show me how to grow old in his own home.
 Learninf about the omen, the old man turnes cold and went home.

13.  After showing his showmanship during the
finale show at the showplace, Master
showman Joe will try to showcase his other
showpieces not in the showroom, but in the
showboat among showbiz among showbiz
fanatics and give the show off a real
showdown.

14.  The sound [o] as in NOT
 hot – lot – not – got – bottle – bottom – body – model – modern;
forgot – forgotten;
 lock – clock– cock – mock – rock – sock – doctor – document;
 top – stop – pop – popular – job – rob – robber – hobby – lobby;
 profit – problem – project (n.) – proper – proverb – prompt;
 college – collar – dollar – doll – follow – hollow – holiday;

15.  The sound [u:] as in RULE
 rude – rule – rumor – ruin – brutal – truth – June – junior – Julia – Luke –
Lucy – lunatic – luminous – parachute;
 do – two – who – whom – whose – lose – move – prove – tomb – shoe;
improve;
 too – zoo – food – mood – cool – school – fool – foolish – pool – tool –
boom – room – groom – moon – soon – choose – soothe;
 boot– root – shoot – booth – tooth – boost – rooster – goose – loose –
proof – roof;
 Note:
 In AmE, [u:] or [yu:] (usually [u:]) is pronounced after "d, n, s,
t" in words like these:
 duty – due – dew – dual – dude – dune – duplicate; produce
(v.) – reduce;

16.  The sound [yu:] as in USE
 use – useful – usual – union – unit; unite – unique – university – utility;
 fuse – future – cute – cube – huge – humor – human – fuel; confuse –
refuse;
 music – mute – mutual – menu – pupil; amuse – community – computer –
dispute – museum;
 few – view – mew – ewe – nephew;

17.  The sound [u] as in BOOK
 book – cook – hook – look – shook – took – brook – crook;
 good – hood – stood – wood – foot – wool – woolen;
 childhood – brotherhood – motherhood – neighborhood;
 put – push – pull – full – bull – bush;
 bullet – bushel – butcher – pudding – sugar – cushion;
 plural – rural – jury – during – durable; duration – endurance
– insurance;
 could – should – would; tourist – tourism;

18.  The sound [yu] as in FURY
 fury – furious – curious – purity – bureau – bureaucrat; curiosity;
 Ural – Uranus – urine – urinate; urology – uranium;
 Europe – euro; eureka – European;
 cure – pure; secure – obscure.
 Note:The sound [yu] before final [r] as in "cure, pure, secure, obscure"
usually has diphthongal character [yu(ə)r].

19.  Paul thought that his friends always talked about his flaw.
 After they saw Paul in the audience, they brought him to the law office.
 At the onset , they thought it would be an awful experience.
 Paul talked with his friends to withdraw his membership from the law
circle.
 The raw Paul never thought their path would cross again last August.
 I saw Paul in the audience.
 He bought the cross lastAugust.
 Ignorning the audience during a performance is an awful onset.
 Paul never saw a flaw in this law.
 Paul talked about his awful experenced before an audience.

20.  With their talkativeness, typical talkers like
Paul and Sol never get tired of talking
talkatively about anything and usually start
small talks just to have anything to talk
about whether in a ball, hall, or mall so they
will stand tall even if they fall.