Lesson 5. A dog in the Corner.

/o/ and /o:/

Lesson 5; Part A

How to make the sound /o/
/o/ is a short sound.
Look at the diagram.
Listen and say the sound.
Round your lips a little.
The front of your tongue is low and towards the back of your mouth.
Target sound: /o/

Lesson 5; Part B

Sound and spelling /o/ is usually spelled o, and sometimes a. Listen and repeat. bottle box chocolate clock coffee copy cost cross doctor dog gone got holiday hospital hot job lock long lost lot not off often possible shop song sorry stop top wrong quality want wash wasn't watch what Note: The word cough is pronounced /kof/. Note: The word was is sometimes pronounced with /o/.
Now listen and say these sentences. 1 Have you got a lot of shopping? 2 John's gone to the shops. 3 How much did your holiday cost? 4 She said the coffee wasn't very good, but I thought it was.
Important for listening! Most Americans pronounce these words differently. Listen 1 Have you got a lot of shopping? 2 John's gone to the shops. 3 How much did your holiday cost? 4 She said the coffee wasn't very good, but I thought it was.

Lesson 5; Part C

How to make the sound /o:/
/o:/ is a long sound.
Look at the diagram.
Listen and say the sound.
Round your lips more than for /o/ .
Target sound: /o:/

Lesson 5; Part D

Sound and spelling
/o:/ has different spellings.
Listen and say these words.

a	all; ball; call; fall; tall; wall; water
al	talk; walk
au	autumn
aw	saw
augh	caught; daughter; taught
ough	bought; thought
ar	quarter; warm
or	born; corner; forty; short; sort; horse
oor	door; floor
ore	before; more
our	four

Now listen and say these phrases.

1   quarter past four   4    walking on water
2   born in autumn      5    the fourth door on the fourth floor
3   have some more

Important for listening!
When there is a letter r after /o:/, most Americans, Scots and Irish, and some other English speakers pronounce this r. Listen.
1   quarter past four   4    walking on water
2   born in autumn      5    the fourth door on the fourth floor
3   have some more

Exercises

1 Write these words.

Write these words.
Example: /boks/ box

/klok/	_______clock	/wont/	_______want	/'sori/	_______sorry
/gon/	_______gone	/wontid/	_______wanted	/wot/	_______what

Check with the Key. Then listen again and repeat.

2 Listen and complete the dialogues with the words.

Listen and complete the dialogues with these /o/ words. box; chocolates; clock; doctor; gone; got; holiday; on; stopped; ~~what~~; what
A: What time is it? B: I don't know. The _______clock's _______stopped. A: _______What have you _______got? В: A _______box of _______chocolates. A: Where's the _______doctor? B: He's _______gone _______on _______holiday Check with the Key. Then listen again and repeat.

3 Write the underlined verbs in the past tense.

Write the underlined verbs in the past tense.
Example:We buy everything at the supermarket. -» We bought everything at the supermarket.

1 I think about you every day.	-»	I _______thought about you every day.
2 We always walk home from school.	-»	We always _______walked home from school.
3 I catch the first bus in the morning.	-»	I _______caught the first bus in the morning.
4 My daughter teaches English.	-»	My daughter _______taught English.

Check with the Key. Then listen and repeat.

4 Write the names of the things in the picture.

Write the names of the things in the picture.
Example: 1 bottle

5.4.jpg 1 bottle
2 salt (and pepper)
3 box (of shopping)
4 floor
5 dog
6 ball
7 door

Check with the Key. Then listen and repeat.

5 Listen and write the missing words.

Listen and write the missing /o/ and /o:/ words.

This is our kitchen. On the table there's a big _______box full of shopping, a _______bottle of wine and some _______salt and pepper. There's a _______ball on the _______floor and the _______dog's asleep in the corner behind the _______door.

Check with the Key. Then listen and speak together with the recording.

6 Listen and circle the word you hear.

Listen and circle the word you hear.
Check with the Key.

1   not / note Keynot
2   luck / lock Keyluck
3   coat / caught Keycaught
4    shot / short Keyshort
5    walk / work Keywork

Check with the Key.

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