Read the words aloud before doing the
exercise. Pay special attention to the sound
Read each word and compare the sound
of the letters in red with the word in
parentheses.
ODD ONE OUT
Underline the word which sound doesn’t
match the word in parentheses:
1 - backpack - apple - came (bad)
2 - Struggle - frugal - nuts (cut)
3 – think - thus - there (those)
4 – thanks - theme - though (thought)
5 – fear - enough - psyco (photocopy)
6 – characteristic - scene - scorn (confident)
7 – cheap - charm - scheme (chair)
8 – skeptic - ceramic - school (caramel)
9 – unicorn - one - wagon (sandwich)
10 – strategy - government - juice (heritage)
Say the words aloud and mark the
ones with the required sound:
Mark with an “X” the words with “s” sound:
as ( ); issue ( ); assessment ( ); harass ( );
embarrass ( )
Mark the words with “z” sound:
abused ( ); house ( ); blouse ( ); this ( );
those ( ); snow ( ); is ( ); to exercise ( );
shoes ( ); yes ( ); because ( ); excuses ( )
After doing all the exercises on this page,
use the phonetic transcriptions on the next
page to correct them.
marked in red.
ODD ONE OUT
Circle the word with different vowel sound:
1. weak – health – cheap – leak
2. blood – choose – goose – lose
3. pocket – awesome – lot – love
4. uncle –guy – undo – unfold
5. cut – turn – tune – guts
6; dime – it – vivid – this
7. bed – men – head – these
8. threw – new – sue – door
9. now – know – throw – hello
10. cow – now – loud – low
Pay attention to the regular verb ending
sounds when doing the next exercises:
Mark with an “X” the past or regular verbs
that end with /t/ sound:
laughed ( ); wandered ( ); asked ( );
stepped ( ); coughed ( ); shopped ( );
questioned ( ); raised ( ); dismissed ( );
talked ( ); waited ( ); noticed ( )
Mark with an “X” the regular verbs in the
past that end with / d/ (Id) sound:
interested ( ); listened ( ); scorched ( );
managed ( ); started ( ); visited ( ); terrified
( ); stated ( ); mortified ( ); harassed ( );
viewed ( ); landed ( )
Mark with an “X” the past of regular verbs
that end with /d/ sound:
estimated ( ); amazed ( ); finished ( );
stopped ( ); arrived ( ); turned ( );
answered ( ); walked ( ); phoned ( );
pretended ( ); planned ( )