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

²Activity 6. Listen to the speaker and imitate the tongue twister.

Learn it by heart.

How much wood would a woodchuck chuck

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: ]

²Activity 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

C.

· bloom – bloomer – blooming

· cool – coolant – cool box – cooler – cool head – coolly

· fool – foolish – foolproof – fool’s cap – fool’s 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

²Activity 2. Contrasting Sound Practice

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