271 Go to /ɒ/ Worksheet Go to /ʌ/ Worksheet LOT /ɒ/ “Don” vs STRUT /ʌ/ “done” 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/
STRUT /ʌ/
Spelling Patterns
FEEL both vowels spelled with “o”: along, top “o”: above, tongue
tongue more back lips slightly rounded
HEAR lower-pitched when whispered
tongue more central lips relaxed
higher-pitched when whispered
Comparisons
Minimal pairs are words that sound the same apart from one sound. The only difference between cop /kɒp/ and cup /kʌp/ is the vowel sound. Words (minimal pairs in the order /ɒ/ - /ʌ/)
1 cop - cup 2 cot - cut 3 sock - suck 4 shot - shut 5 strong - strung 6 jog - jug 7 long - lung 8 borrow - burrow 9 warrior - worrier 10 wander - wonder
Potentially Embarrassing Mix-Ups (minimal pairs in the order /ɒ/ - /ʌ/) 1 bomb – ! bum 2 fox – ! fucks 3 lost - ! lust 4 slot - ! slut