VOWEL SOUNDS
Put the words in the correct column and underline the letter (s) corresponding to the sound.
Girl, the , well, heard, third, arrive, heater, sell, younger, felt, word, red, Thursday, world, rent, bed,
doctor, at, belt, bench, send, surf, bird, hurt, sofa, China, a, them, left, any, merry, silver, after,
concert, search, thirsty, worth, worst, selfish, mother, and, either, birth, penguin, than, sugar, church,
yesterday, corner, about, first, shirt, work, get, tennis, never, mess, next, person, earth, over, burn,
when, ten, her, Christmas.
/ ɜ: / /Ə / /e/
girl the well
Put the words in the correct column and underline the letter(s) corresponding to the sound.
Car, cut, cat, hard, up, ham, sandwich, farm, just, calm, bus, art, large, unfair, apple, heart, butter,
harm, armed, march, partner, month, garden, half, fan, mad, sun, fast, palm, laugh, lunch, country,
maths, battle, packed, drugs, drunk, gun, back, jump, manage, panic, much, marry, sung, far, bark,
luck, starred, mud, pubs, lack, charming, bad, come, wonder, colours, match, hand, mother, packet,
attacked, unhappy.
/ ɑ: / /ʌ/ /æ/
car cut cat
Put the words in the correct column and underline the letter(s) corresponding to the sound.
Dog, floor, dolls, cost, wrong, store, saw, sword, rob, shop, drawn, shocked, was, wanted, north,
sauce, watched, stock, lost, hot, warm, all, wander, stop, sorry, port, daughter, water, order, holly,
authentic, more, cotton, god, stop, thought, sport, fall, borrow, clock, football, storm, story, dawn,
box, pond.
/ ɔ: / /ɒ/
floor dog
Put the words in the correct column and underline the letter (s) corresponding to the sound.
Put, pull, wood, too, tool, rule, took, push, move, moon, tooth, bull, books, should, shoe, lose, sugar,
roof, shoot, pool, shook, could, suit, grew, cook, full, football, through, threw, good, woman,
school, wool, food, boots, wolf, ruler, fruit, truth, approve, youths,bookcase.
/ᴜ/ / u: /
put too
Put the words in the correct column and underline the vowel(s) corresponding to the sound.
Bee , lift, tea, lived , wheel , leaf, hill, wheat , wit , will , sin , leave , women , sick , business , six,
written, machine , beat , wind , exist , heels , repeated, please , police, cleaning, three, these, single,
teeth, mean.
/ɪ/ / i: /
sit seat