Sunday, 7 July 2013

/ ǝʊ/ ------ [ o ]



      Letter                  Phoneme                   Word
[ o ]                  / ǝʊ/                O              70

Sean has a friend called Ozee.                                    
She likes to wear loose clothes at home (/hǝum/).
She combs (k ǝʊ mz) her hair many times a day.
Ozee likes to go to the grocery (/ˈgrǝusǝrI/)
with her mum’s, Olly.
Mr Ho, the grocer is always busy
talking on his mobile (ˈmǝʊ baIl) phone (/fǝun/).
He always wears a big cross (/kr ǝʊ s/)
across his big chest.
Ozee notices that he has fat big toes (tǝuz)
twelve in number.
He always has a strong smell of lotion (ˈl ǝʊ ʃən).
His big fat toes always reminds her of the story
about a farmer who always carried a hoe.
He had a pet doe.
But he also had a foe. 
       

        [ o ]          /ǝu/                  O                      71

Olly, Ozee’s mum always says
Mr Ho is good and friendly.         
He always opens his grocery store at 7am in the morning.
He only closes it at 7pm in the evening.
Then he goes home for motion pictures
to motivate (/ˈmǝutIveIt/) himself.
You can buy almost everything
from lotus (/ˈlǝutǝs/) to toilet rolls from his store.
You can even call him toll-free.
They never like to go to the store
next to the motor (/mǝutə(r)/) lodge (l ɒ ʤ).
Mr Oh, the grocer, has a poker face.
He looks like a man full of motives.
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Identify the letter clusters with / ǝu / vowel speech sound.

        [ o-e, ow ]         / ǝu /                O              72
Ozee has a skipping rope (/rǝup/).                                                      
She skips the rope every day.
She hopes she can skip
as well as her sister, Oyee.
Oyee can always cope
so well with her lessons
or in games in scope (/skǝup/).
Oyee has a mole (/mǝul/) on her right cheek.
Ozee has a dimple on her left cheek.
The two sisters are poles (/pǝulz/) apart.
But they know they have different roles (/rǝulz/) in life.


 [ oa ]               / ǝu /                O      73

Loho, Ozee’s father has a pet goat called Load.                     
He likes to eat oat meal.
He can eat so much
until he looks so bloated (/ˈblǝutId/).
Then he lies flat on his stomach
beside the boat quite near the road and the moat.
He would groan and moan in regret
for eating so much oat (/ǝut/).


[ oa ]        / ǝu /                O              74

Load, the goat likes to roam along the coast.                        
He likes to meet his friend, a toad called Hoad.
Hoad, the toad (tǝud) often coaxes,
Load, the goat to go for a swim.
Load, the goat would like to swim very much
like Hoad, the toad.
But he remembers his friend, Roach, a foal.
Roach, the foal, wanted to swim
like the goose, Poach in the moat.
But he found it hard to stay afloat.
Soon he groaned, moaned and foamed.
He got drowned in the moat.


[ ol ]         / ǝu /                O              75

Once there was an old man.                                                       
He always looked so and so cold (/kǝuld/).
He liked gold so much so (/sǝu/)
that he sold almost everything
 in exchange for gold.
He always told the stories about god (g ɒ d) and gold (gǝuld).
He always liked to hold
a piece of gold in his hand
when he went to bed.
He believed he could meet
the god of gold in his dream
when he held a piece of gold in his hand.


        [ o, ou ]             / ǝu /                O              76

Douglas likes to knead dough  for his mum, Dolly                 
Dolly is a baker.
She likes to cast the dough (/dǝu/)
in the moulds (mǝuldz) of different shapes and sizes.
Douglas always likes the cake and biscuits
his mum, Dolly makes.
He thinks they touch (tʌʧ) his soul (sǝul)
to see cakes and biscuits
in different moulds of shapes and sizes.
Dolly, Douglas’s mum also keep
some poultry for fun and food.
Cooking, baking and feeding her poultry (/ˈpǝultrI/)
keep her fully occupied (/ˈɒ kjʊpaId/) daily.

[ o, ou. ow,]               / ǝu /                O              77

Ozee’s father Loho grow crops in rows (/rǝuz/).                            
He owns (/ǝunz/) a really big farm.
He never throws any crops (kr ǝu ps) he grows away.
He always gives unwanted crops to the poultry.
He always gets a good gross income every month.
Many people owe (/ǝu/) him money
when they buy his crops on credit.
When the wind blows, the crops bow low.
The cock with a yellow cockscomb crows really loudly.
Loho, Ozee’s dad sits at the window (/ˈwIndǝu/).
He watches helplessly how the soil flows away
with rainwater in rows.

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