NORTH /ɔː/ “walk” vs NURSE /əː/ “work” 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! NORTH /ɔː/
NURSE /əː/
Spelling Patterns
“war”: warm, war, reward “wal” in walk “wor” in wore, worn only
FEEL
tongue central lips rounded and pushed forwards
HEAR lower-pitched when whispered “wor”: work, word, worth
tongue more back lips relaxed
higher-pitched when whispered
Comparisons
The highlighted words are all minimal pairs. These are words that sound the same apart from one sound. The only difference between war /wɔː/ and were /wəː/ is the vowel sound. Words (minimal pairs in the order /ɔː/ - /əː/) 1 war – were
2 ward - word 3 warm - worm 4 warship - worship
Sentences 1
I walk to work /ʌɪ wɔːk tə wəːk/
2 It’s worth putting the network router by the wardrobe. 3 He warned that the world is moving towards a worse place.
