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  The /OO/ and /U/ Sound
 
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The /oo/ and /u/ sound

  • Form your lips into a small circle.
  • Protrude your lips slightly as you form the circle.

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The following words have the /oo/ and /u/ sound.

Duty                    Tuesday

Blue                    Tube

Nuke                    Knew

Movie                    Who

Soup                    Dual

Do                        School

Lose                     Loot

Through               Smooth

Two                     Route

Soon                    Illusion

Shoe                    Whose

Clue                     Choose



Try these phrases


Two brooms             Flew to the moon

To the zoo               Cool moon

Crude loom              Soup with a spoon

Near the tomb          A new suit

Blue moon                Boon for our school

On the loose            The boob tube

Tool room                 Proof of the loot

In the mood               Fool in the spool

Due on Tuesday       Tuna Stew

Assume an illusion     Do news duty






The /öö/ and /ü/ sound

  • slightly more open than the /oo/ and /u/ sound.
  • Also produced farther back in the mouth.
  • Don’t round your lips to the extent that you do for the /oo/.


The following words have the /öö/ and /ü/ sound

Wolf                            Would

Bulletin                        Hook

Could                          Pull

Bush                           Look

Took                           Butcher

Book                           Wood

Foot                            Understood

Cook                           Brook

Boulevard                   Stood

Wool                           Good

Soot                            Bull

Full                              Hood



Try these phrases

Good book              Shook the foot            Near the brook

Should hook            Could cook                 With a hook

Soot in the nook      Pull the plug                Should look

To the butcher         A look at the books     Push and pull

Would pull               With a wool                 By hook or by crook

A full stomach          Brookside shore         In the bookstore

Howling wolf            Girl misunderstood



Sentence drills

  1. I have Ruby Tuesday on Century Boulevard.
  2. Which would you like?
  3. Let me take a good look
  4. Could it be Souplantation?
  5. He stood near the school.
  6. That movie is coming out soon.
  7. Don’t assume that the butcher cooks.
  8. I’m sorry but I’m not showing Walderbooks on  Hazelbrook Avenue.
  9. That’s Good Guys on Pulaski Road?
  10. Who would you choose?


 
   
 
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