ow*, now, wow, house, shout, brown, doubt, amount, flower, somehow, roundabout * ow /aʊ/ is the word English people use when they feel pain
Phrases
1 around town 2 loud mouth
3 council housing 4 round and round
5 without a doubt 6 about an hour
Sentences
1 How do I download it from the cloud? 2 I’ve got a voucher that gives me a discount on trousers. 3 Stop clowning around – we’re not allowed to be rowdy here. 4 The Saudi Arabian government made a ground-breaking announcement. 5 Howard found out that the accountant was hiding a mounting debt. 6 I’m on the lookout for a house in the south of the county.
Note: the word our is pronounced with the MOUTH /aʊ/ vowel if it is stressed: /aʊə/. Otherwise we would pronounce it as /ɑ:/. Now practise with the MOUTH reading passage