LOT /ɒ/ “cot” vs GOAT /əʊ/ “coat” 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! LOT /ɒ/
GOAT /əʊ/
Spelling Patterns
FEEL “o” + consonant: often, stop, lot
“o” at end of word: go, no, so “o” + consonant + “e”: phone, wrote
tongue back and down tongue does not move
HEAR
lower-pitched when whispered short vowel, no movement
tongue starts centrally and moves upwards
higher-pitched when whispered longer vowel with movement
Comparisons
Minimal pairs are words that sound the same apart from one sound. The only difference between off /ɒf/ and oaf /əʊf/ is the vowel sound.
Words (minimal pairs in the order /ɒ/ - /əʊ/) 1 off - oaf 2 hops - hopes 6 soppy - soapy 7 tossed - toast 3 Bonn - bone 8 lolly - lowly 4 comma - coma 9 clock - cloak 5 mop -mope 10 was1 - woes 1 This is usually unstressed and pronounced /wəz/. When stressed it is pronounced /wɒz/.
