1.1. Listen  and practise the difference.
 
fool full boot foot
pool pull food good
Luke look tool wool

1. 2. Listen and write down the words you hear.

 
1.  2.  3.  4.  5.  6. 

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1.3. Listen   to these quotations. Which sound is in the words underlined. Tick the correct box.
   
A good book is the precious life blood of a master spirit (Milton)
No sun - no moon
No morn - no noon... November (Hood)
A fool and his money are soon parted (proverb)
I could not love thee (Dear) so much.
Lov’d I not honour more (Lovelace)
Beauty is truth, truth beauty (Keats)
I like work... I can’t sit and look at it for hours (Jerome K. Jerome)
I was a stranger and you took me in (The Bible)

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Task 2: All the words below include the letter “u”. How are they pronounced? Type the words in
the correct box.     

include     customer     full     supermarket    June     gun

pull         Sunday         put     push               number
 
Task 3: Saying contrastive sentences, choose the contrastive sounds. Type the sounds in the box.  

 
1. This horse should be shoed.
2. The pigeons could be cooed.
3. Luke does not look well.
4. Ken had soot on his suit.
5. Who took of the child’s tube?
6. Mary was wooed in the wood
7. Did you pull her into the pool?
8. That fool is never full.
9. Who would remove the criminal’s hood?
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1. This horse should be shoed.
2. The pigeons could be cooed.
3. Luke does not look well.
4. Ken had soot on his suit.
5. Who took of the child’s tube?
6. Mary was wooed in the wood.
7. Did you pull her into the pool?
8. That fool is never full.
9. Who would remove the criminal’s hood?

Task 4: Ways of pronouncing "oo":   

Say the following sentences to yourself and write all the “oo” in the correct columns.
 

 
 
a. Have you read the “Good Food Guide” to
Britain?
b. The best cooks use wooden spoon to stir the
sauce.
c. Look! There’s a pool of blood on the carpet.
d. If I won the football pools, I’d be flooded with
begging letters.
e. We foolishly booked a hotel room without an
ensuite bathroom.
f. I took my woolen jumper in case the weather
turned cool in the afternoon.
g. He stood on the stool and climbed onto
the roof.
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