Pronunciation - vowel sounds

Look at the following words which are taken from the text (Mirad a las siguentes palabras del texto en pagina 27): " Is a man still a child when he's 30?". What are the three words that have a vowel sound like boot? (Cúales son las tres palabras que tienen un sonido de vocal como boot?) The other words have a vowel sound like up.(Las otras palabras tienes un sonido de vocal como up)

• student
• countries
• judge
• until
• usually
• study
• young
• university
• money
• must
• sun

These other words are from the same text. ( Estas palabras son del mismo texto) Look at the vowel sounds in bold and write what the equivalent sound is from the words: fish, bike, clock, train, egg, bird. (see page 156 in your classbooks.) (Mirad los sonidos de vocal en negrita y escribid el sonido equivalente de las palabras siguentes:........... )

eg. still is like fish

1. child
2. children
3. parents
4. Britain
5. many
6. also
7. earn
8. mobile
9. percent
10. women

Listen to words in the English Pronunciation box on the right hand side in the blog. Have a special page in your notebooks for words that you have difficulty pronouncing.