FOOT /ʊ/ “look” vs GOOSE /uː/ “Luke” vs GHOUL /uːl/
Sentences (with minimal pairs not necessarily in the order /uː/ - /ʊ/)
1 Look, I should’ve shooed Luke away. 2 I would’ve wooed her, but I’ve got soot on my suit. 3 The kooky neighbourwho’d joined the neighbourhood baked us each a cookie.
Comparisons GOOSE /uː/ vs GHOUL /uːl/ Words (near minimal pairs in the order /uː/ - / uːl/) 1 too - tool
2 coo - cool 5 spoon - spool 6 food - fool
3 goo - ghoul 7 rue - rule
4 drew - drool
Comparisons FOOT /ʊ/ vs GHOUL /uːl/ 1 pulled out of the pool. 2 that fool is full of rubbish.
Phrases (with minimal pairs not necessarily in the order /ʊ/ - / uːl/):
Mixed Sentences containing words with GOOSE /uː/, FOOT /ʊ/, and GHOUL /uːl/ vowels. There are no minimal pairs. Mark the vowels as /uː/ (GOOSE), /ʊ/ (FOOT), or /uːl/ (for GHOUL)
1 Who shook and pushed you and took your shoes? 2 Sue said that being footloose and fancy-free would suit you. 3 Stop pussy-footing around the tutor working at the good school in Liverpool. 4 At the Guggenheim museum I saw a six-foot cuckoo clock that was really cool. 5 The Hollywood movie is about two youthful cooks from Peru who stood their ground against the crooks.
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I misunderstood – I thought we could put the statue of Buddha on a wooden stool on the blue shelf overlooking the garden.
Answers Now practise with the FOOT-GOOSE reading passage
