vowel practice

Vowel Practice

Try to say the words in each word pair.

Pay attention to the vowel difference in each word pair.

* Please click on the   to listen to the following word pairs and repeat after me.

1.	2.	3.
sheep ship heel hill seat sit cheek chick feel fill	bill bell pin pen chick check fill fell wrist rest	pen pain wet wait tell tail test taste pepper paper

4.	5.	6.
bet bat pen pan men man said sad leg lag	cap cup bag bug sack suck ban bun rag rug	hat hot cat cot cap cop sack sock ran Ron

7.	8.	9.
hut hot cut cot cup cop suck sock run Ron	Don dawn cot caught card cord far four part port	dug dog cut caught cuff cough bus boss lung long

10.	11.	12.
saw sew caught coat hall hole bought boat ball bowl	fall full talk took ball bull fought foot Paul pull	look Luke pull pool full fool soot suit foot boot

13.	14.	15.
back bike hat height van vine cat kite pants pints	all oil ball boil jaw joy raw Roy bald boiled	shot shout Don down are hour dot doubt Scot scout

16.	17.	18.
torn turn shorts shirts four fur ward word walk work	far fur star stir barn burn hearts hurts hard heard	shut shirt huts hurts bun burn bud bird gull girl

Listening Exercise:

Listen to each sentence, and then choose one of the words heard in the sentence.

1. Did you ______ last night?	(slip, sleep)
2. Is John going to ______ here?	(live, leave)
3. Was your ______ good?	(luck, lock)
4. How did you like the ______?	(test, taste)
5. The ______ is coming soon.	(bus, boss)
6. Did you see those ______ ?	(caps, cops)
7. Where's the ______ ?	(paper, pepper)
8. The boy ______ his shirt in.	(tuck, took)
9. Did Sam get the ______?	(code, cod)
10. Mary ______ all night.	(worked, walked)

Tongue Twister Practice:

Try to have a mouth workout. It's fun!

A box of biscuits, a batch of mixed biscuit.

A bloke's back bike brake block broke.

The boot black bought the black boot back.

Flee from fog to fight flu fast!

     A big black bug bit a big black bear,
     made the big black bear bleed blood.

     Give me the gift of a grip top sock:
     a drip-drape, ship-shape, tip-top sock.

     I cannot bear to see a bear.
     Bear down upon a hare.
     When bare of hair he strips the hare,
     Right there I cry, "Forbear!"

     Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers.
     Did Peter Piper pick a peck of pickled peppers?
     If Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers,
     where's the peck of pickled peppers Peter Piper picked?

     A flea and a fly flew up in a flue.
     Said the flea, "Let us fly!"
     Said the fly, "Let us flee!"
     So they flew through a flaw in the flue.

     Once upon a barren moor
     There dwelt a bear, also a boar.
     The bear could not bear the boar.
     The boar thought the bear a bore.
     At last the bear could bear no more
     Of that boar that bored him on the moor,
     And so one morn he bored the boar--
     That boar will bore the bear no more.

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