
Lesson 2: IPA & Reading
1. Objectives
- Identify the sound /u/ and /u:/
- Identify new words about jobs
- Get used to the map of information method (Reading)
2. Vocabulary
There are 4 steps for students to review the vocabulary at home:
- Step 1: Look closely at the picture, click on the sign (+) and read the word.
- Step 2: Open it and listen to the word carefully
- Step 3: Read the English meaning and Vietnamese meaning
- Step 4: After finishing all the words, read the words one more time
3. Minimal pairs /ʊ/ and /uː/
3.1 Sound /u:/
A word can’t end in stressed /ʊ/. In bold words that can’t be confused.
- With "oo": boot - choose - cool - fool - loose - moon - pool - root - school - soon - stool - too - tool
- With "u" and magic e: absolute - include - June - rule
- With "u": brutal - conclusion - flu - truth
- With "ew": blew - brew - chew - crew - drew - screw - threw
- With "ou": group - soup - through - you - youth
- With "o": lose - move - tomb - who
3.2 Sound /u/
- With "oo": book - cook - foot - good - hook - look - shook - stood - took - wood - wool
- With "u": bull - bullet - bush - cushion - full - pudding - pull - push - put - sugar
- With "ou": could - would - should
- With "o": bosom - wolf - woman
Normally only a few consonants follow /ʊ/.
- /d/: could - good - hood - pudding - should - stood - wood - would
- /g/: sugar
- /k/: book - brook - cook - crook - forsook - hook - rook - shook - took
- /l/: bulbul - bull - bullet - bulletin - full - July - pull - pulpit - wolf - wolves - wool
- /m/: hummus - woman
- /ʃ/: bush - bushel - cushion - kush - push - shush
- /t/: chutzpah - foot - put - soot
- /tʃ/: butch - butcher - putsch