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how – cow – now – allow – owl – brown – down – town – clown – drown – crown – crowd – powder –
browse – browser;
loud – proud – cloud – out – shout – about – doubt – foul – noun – house – mouse – mouth – south – couch;
found – ground – around – pound – sound – count – amount – mountain – announce – bounce;
hard – hound, darn – down, lard – loud, nor – now, hall – howl, fall – foul, dawn –
down, drawn – drown, crawl – crown, cord
art – out, part – pout; start – stout; shark – – crowd, pause – spouse;
shout;
short – shout; port – pout, sport – spout;
[a:] – [au]: start now, calm down, dark
house, farther south; [au] – [a:]: how hard, [ai] – [au]
downhearted;
high – how, nine – noun, bright – brow,
[æ] – [au] find – found, hind – hound, signed –
sound;
Al – owl, lad – loud, sand – sound, tan –
town, Dan – down, Fran – frown, [ai] – [au]: nice town, try now, light-
brown, night owl, five rounds; [au] – [ai]:
mass – mouse, lass – louse; how nice
1. Divide these words into 3 lists, according to the pronunciation of the vowel:
Her – no ‐ how – first – our – surname – now – go – hour – glow – turn – slow – brown – low – work –
home – word – shoulder – house – mouse – blow – bird
2. Rhyme a pronoun (list A) with the sound in bold in the words from list B.
A: mine / yours / his / hers / its / ours / theirs
B: showers / Thursday / quiz / wears / doors / fine / sits
3. Dictate your telephone number, using the words below instead of numbers.
2 = now 6 = walk
3 = load 7 = dawn