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FOOT /ʊ/ “look” vs GOOSE /uː/ “Luke” vs GHOUL /uːl/
Watch Video Lesson
- When practising sounds: - FEEL (what can you feel your muscles doing?) - HEAR (listen to the audio tracks and use the hand-phone to listen to yourself)
You may come up with different ideas to the ones in the boxes. That’s fine! FOOT /ʊ/
GOOSE /uː/
Spelling Patterns
spelled using same letters as GOOSE
spelled using same letters as FOOT
GHOUL /uː/
This vowel only appears when there is a /l/ afterwards
FEEL
tongue central and lower tongue does not move
tongue central and high
tongue moves slightly upwards
HEAR
lower-pitched when whispered
shorter vowel
highest-pitched when whispered
longer vowel
tongue back and high tongue does not move
lowest-pitched when whispered
longer vowel
Comparisons GOOSE /uː/ vs FOOT /ʊ/
The highlighted words are all minimal pairs. These are words that sound the same apart from one sound. The only difference between who’d /huːd/ and hood /hʊd/ is the vowel sound. Words (minimal pairs in the order /uː/ - /ʊ/)
1 who’d - hood 2 cooed - could 3 suit - soot 5 kooky - cookie 6 shooed - should 7 wooed - would 4 Luke - look
