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The / O / Sound

• Put your lips in a circle, protruding your lips slightly. Make the circle smaller, as you continue to make a sound.
• Be sure not to make a single circle. Move your lips from a larger to a smaller circle.
• Do not flatten your lips, as in a smile; drop your jaw , don’t smile.

The following words have the o sound.

Both                         Motel 6

Broker                      motor

Coast                       Oakland

Code                        old

Cold                         open

Eau Claire                own

Gold                         post

Grove                       Rhode Island

Hoag                         road

Joan                         Rohnert park

Know                        so

Loan                        Togo’s

Lodi                          X.O.

Lowe’s/loews            zone

Moment                    don’t

Lopez                       Jones




Try these phrases

Go slow                  most of the hosts    with a rope     

Hope of the Pope    for the bold           with a note       

Sold to the old        rose bowl               choked with a smoke   

One moment          goal of the soul       for the soul       

Stole the show        mold the gold         metro toll           

old gold                  sole hope               near the store

own a coat                         post code




Sentence drills

1. I have AutoZone on Broad Rd.
2. That’s Auto Exotics. Thank you, one moment please.
3. I have Joan’s Jewelry on Santa Monica Blvd.
4. I apologize for the wait. I’ll have that for you in just another moment.
5. I’m not finding a Bob Thomas. What I have is a Robert Thomas. Could this be the one you’re looking for?
6. I have Tom Gold Law Office with a P.O. Box address listed in Oakland.
7. One moment please while I search that for you.
8. I have Jack-In-The-Box on Cottage Grove Rd.
9. That’s the Department of Motor Vehicles. Thank you, one moment please.
10. I have Post Rent-A-Box on Coast St.