Sunday, 7 July 2013

19. / eǝ / -----[ear, air, are,]



Letter clusters            Phoneme                   Helping Words
          [ear, air]                  / eǝ /                        bear, air, ware  
          [are, eir]                                                 heir    110

Ozee has a teddy bear (/beǝ(r)/).                                                       
She likes to sit it on a chair.
She likes to wear a pink T-shirt
and a blue skirt.
Sometimes she ties up her hair
in a ponytail.
Sometimes she pins her hair up.
She wants to look really fair (/feǝ(r)/),
so she eats a pear every day.


[ are, ear, air, eir                /eǝ/                  air     111

Ozee swears she has the flair (/fleǝ(r)/)                                        
to become a good athlete (/ˈæθli:t/).
She can walk up and down the stairs really fast.
For sure, there is no tear (/teǝ(r)/) or wear of her shoes.
But she would not dare to take part
in 100 or 200 metre race
She knows she cannot run as fast as Pearl (/pɜ:l/).
Pearl can run as fast as a hare (heǝ(r)).
She practises running every day.
But Ozee does not want to spare
even an afternoon or two for running practice
to become a good athlete.


[ are, ear, air, eir ]              /eǝ/                  air       112
Ozee is aware (/ǝˈweǝ(r)/) that she is a little bit fat.
Olly, Ozee’s mum, always says,
“You should take care of your weight.”
Ozee does not dare to blare
that she can one day run like a hare.
Ozee thinks she should go to the square (/skweǝ(r)/)
for more exercise to fare well in life.
When Oho teases her to be like a piggy in clothes,
she glares and snarl  (/snɑ:l/) at him like a lion
with bushy mare.
She really flares up in anger.
Oho is scared and stares at her
and gets prepared (/prIˈpeǝ(r)d/) to fight or flight.
Olly, their mum would have to put aside
the cookware and be on alert and aware
that they might be a fight.

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