Monday, 8 July 2013

7. / s z/



Consonant pair           / s     z /            136

Soo (/su:/) likes to go the zoo (/zu:/).
She likes to see the seals there
with so much zeal.
She likes to look at the zebras, too
She thinks those zebras are lovely.
Today her parents are going
to bring her to the zoo.
She wishes the car
would zoom to the zoo soon.
Soo is fussy about her fuzzy-look pet cat called Nuzz. (/nu:z/)
Nuzz, her fuzzy-look pet cat always follows her
wherever she goes.
Today, for sure, she will follow Soo to the zoo.
She always grooms Nuzz, her fuzzy-look pet cat well
so that she can hold and cuddle her more often.


Consonant pair           /s     z/              137

Sean and his sister, Jean like to go to the beach
 to feel the sea breeze.
Jean’s pet cat, Luzzy (/ˈlu:zI/) likes to follow her
wherever she goes.
But Luzzy is sensitive to sea breezes (/ˈbri:zəz/).
She wheezes (/ˈwi:zəz/) and freezes easily.
Jean thinks Luzzy needs a muzzle (/ˈmʌzl/)
to keep her feel at ease.
Luzzy is curious about the zip on the muzzle.
She is also curious about the straw
when Jean has a sip to give herself a treat.


Consonant pair           / s     z /            138

Irene is down with chicken pox.
She has to stay
inside the bedroom all day long
to play with her toy fox in a box.
She has some toy crabs, lobsters, prawns,
squids and octopuses in another box (bɒks).
She has a toy horse, too.
Irene thinks it looks rather clumsy (/ˈklʌmzI/).


Irene is displaying her other toys
all over her bedroom.
She has fallen asleep now
and she is in the wonderland of toys.

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