Sunday, 7 July 2013

/ u /-----[oo]



   [ oo]                       / u /                         good         66

Nuru has a very good (/g u d/) cook (k u k) book .                             
She always puts (p u ts) it in a drawer.
Yesterday, she took (t u k)a look (l u k) of the book (/buk/).
She wanted to make some pudding (/ˈpudIŋ/)
for his son, Luke.
But Luke pushed (put) and pulled (/p u ld/) her
to sit down on the cushion (ˈk ʊʃən).
He wanted her to tell him
the story about a woman (/ˈwumǝn/)
who kept a wolf (wʊlf) as her bosom (/ˈbuzǝm/) friend.   


[o, u ]               / u /                  book                 67

Tutu, Luke’s dad keeps a bull called Duk /duk/                             
and a rook called Guk /guk/.
Duk, the bull is full of strength.
He can pull and push a load
many times his weight.
He can fulfil all the tasks
Tutu asks him to do.
But he cannot do much
when Guk, the rook hooks on his back.


[ oo, u ]             / u /                  book                 68

Guk, the rook is not good (/gud/).                                                       
She is a bully.
She likes to bully Duk, the bull.
She always hooks on Duk, the bull’s back
and makes the sounds, “Luk! Luk!.............”  /luk/
Duk, the bull wishes
he could push her off his back
and pull her around like a piece of wood (/wud/).
and put her in a bag of wool (/wʊl/).

Vowels in comparison

                          / u: /                         / u /          69

        1.             boot, root                  foot, soot                          
        2.             food                          good, wood
        3.             fool                           wool
        4.             proof, roof                 poof


                / ɒ /                                  / ɔ: /

  1.           bog                           ball
  2.          cock                           call
  3.          dog                           door
  4.          fog                            fall
  5.          hot                            hall


              / α: /                         / ^ /

1.              barn                          bun
2.              calm                         come
3.              dart                          dust
4.              harsh                        hush
5.              mast                         must  
6.              mask                         musk
7.              march                       much
8.              charm                       chum
9.              are                            us
10.                              balm                         bum

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