Complete the exercise by:

1. Listening to the MP3 and noticing the sound differences
2. Listening & repeating each word out loud.

/əʉ/ – /o:/ x 2

owe – or
əʉ – oː

so – saw
səʉ – soː

boat – bought
bəʉt – boːt

drone – drawn
drəʉn – droːn

folk – fork
fəʉk – foːk

know – nor
nəʉ – noː

mow – more
məʉ – moː

note – naught
nəʉt – noːt

poke – pork
pəʉk – poːk

show – sure
ʃəʉ – ʃoː

chose – chores
ʧəʉz – ʧoːz

close – claws
kləʉs – kloːz

doe – door
dəʉ – doː

dome – dorm
dəʉm – doːm

doze – doors
dəʉz – doːz

moaning – morning
ˈməʉnɪŋ – ˈmoːnɪŋ

snow – snore
snəʉ – snoː

stow – store
stəʉ – stoː

cone – corn
kəʉn – koːn

coast – coursed
kəʉst – koːst

code – cord
kəʉd – koːd

go – gore
gəʉ – goː

low – law
ləʉ – loː

foam – form
fəʉm – foːm

hone – horn
həʉn – hoːn

show – shore
ʃəʉ – ʃoː

choke – chalk
ʧəʉk – ʧoːk

copes – corpse
kəʉps – koːps

node – gnawed
nəʉd – noːd

mowed – moored
məʉd – moːd

Tongue Twisters:

Practice phrases to read out loud:

1. No, the law wrote nought war notes.
2. Crows can’t crawl nor draw bows or balls.
3. Moana honed her horn skills to show on shore.
4. So, on the boat she’d bought she’d drawn a drone.
5. The lone crab closed his claws and chose his chores.
6. A chalk goat was choked whilst gawking at the broken fork.
7. The load of moored boats bored me whilst I mowed the lawn.
8. The doe owes more now the laws have closed the low doors.
9. Brody’s corpse was forced over the course by a doped up horse.
10. Poke the pork brought by the bloke who caught it with his coat.