Answers to Lessons 1 and 2

Exercise 1
These words are meet, ship, sun, rat, goat, teach, go, shoot, watch, book, cat, about, seat, bird.

Exercise 2
The movements of the tongue are: backward, forward, up, down, backward down, forward up.

Exercise 3
The words which contain the sound /i:/ are:
deep, breathing, leave, three, cheese, cheaper, sheep, fields, green, season, sneezes, diseases,
eat, tea, coffee.

Exercise 4
1) Chinese, 2) Japanese, 3) Portuguese, 4) Lebanese, 5) Nepalese, 6) Vietnamese.

Exercise 5

Words containing the vowel sound /i/ Words containing the vowel sound /i:/

winning in, different, events, it, this, re- Sita, Meeta, Gita, each, meet, easy, pleased,
ward, give, quickly, Ishita, little treat, reached, feast, Nita.

Exercise 6
Words containing the vowel sound /i/ Words containing the vowel sound /e/

tins, biscuits, rings, hid, finished, fill, it, in, send, ten, get, set, men, next, eggs, then,
India, December send, gets, November, December

Exercise 7
The words which contain the vowel sound /æ/ are:
pat, cat, sat, mat, had, can, jam, rat, ran, nap.

Exercise 8
Objects which contain /æ/ sound are:
man, hammer, cat, hat, jam.

Exercise 9
The words which contain the vowel sound /æ/ are:
Sam, Fanny, cash, bank, balance, had, charitable, bag, back, that.

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Exercise 10
The words which contain the vowel sound /ʌ/ are:
Sunny, pup, Bun, sun, bug, run.

Exercise 11
The words which contain the vowel sound /ʌ/ are:
Amar, country, come, but, Barun, Russia, Lucknow, much, trouble, couple, comfortably, bus, up,
money, just, cup, hungry, bun, butter, enough, shuts, must, touch.

Exercise 12

The words containing /æ/ sound The words containing /a:/ sound

had, dad, man, add, lack, glad, fat card, guard, large, sharp, mark, bark, far

Exercise 13
The words which contain the vowel sound /a:/ are:
Mala, drama, father, car, articles, garage, Apar, can’t, far, bath, are.

Exercise 14

The words containing /ʌ/ sound The words containing /a:/ sound

enough, money, bundle, bus, bun, cup armies, marched, father, parts, car

Exercise 15

The words containing /ɔ/ sound The words containing /ɔː/ sound

dissolve, hot, monsoon, office, block salt, water, fought, cause, bought, law,
cornflakes, morning, north

Exercise 16
The words containing /ɔ/ sound The words containing /ɔː/ sound

stops, Hong Kong, halts, officer, office North, mall, hall, accordingly

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Exercise 17

The words containing /u/ sound The words containing /u:/ sound

full, cooks, wood, would, hook, crook, fool, moon, noon, too, soup, you, use,
book, do ruler, school

Exercise 18
The words which contain the vowel sound /3:/ are:
serve, early, heard, thirty, burger, surface, burnt, perfect, thirsty, curd, purple, dirty.

Exercise 19
The spellings used for the vowel sound /ə/ are underlined:
about, backward, problem, development, entertain, terrible, condition, produce, effort, famous,
succeed, beggar, bigger, actor, doctor colour, honour.

Exercise 20
The words which contain the vowel sound /ei/ are:
train, came, eight, late, sprayed, place, laid, table, claim, rains, made, spade, baked, cake, ate,
they, played, game, name, waiter, plates, table, James.

Exercise 21
The words which contain the vowel sound /ai/ are:
sign, nine, times, fine, design, buy, ice-cream, crying, time, high, sky, sigh, died.

Exercise 22
The words which contain the vowel sound /ɔi/ are:
joined, oil, boys, noisy, annoying, boils, joints, spoilt, joy, exploit.

Exercise 23
The words which contain the vowel sound /əu/ are:
road, potholes, unloaded, boats, loaded, coal, coat, old, so, sold, clothes, go, home, joke,
postman.

Exercise 24
The words which contain the vowel sound /au/ are:
vowel, sounds, owl, down, cow, drowned, around, growled, pounced, crowd, howled, loudly.

Exercise 25
The words which contain the vowel sound /iə/ are:
cheered, tears, appear, fear, pierced ears, dearer, year, deer, fear, near.

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Exercise 26
The words which contain the vowel sound /eə/ are:
dare, tear, spare, care, pair, chair, staircase, mare, stared, fair, share.

Exercise 27
The words which contain the vowel sound /ʊə/ are:
poor, tour, duel, fewer cure, sure, fuel, cruel.

Exercise 28

/ɪə/ /eə/ /ʊə/

engineer, weary, ideal, farewell, square, hare, stare fluent, tourist, assure, poor
theory, hear, peer, sheer

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