美语发音OO、UH和EH.docVIP

Session Ten 1. Vowel OO 2. Vowel UH 3. Vowel EH ? ??Hi, and welcome back. Again my name is Paul Gruber and this is the Pronunciation Workshops---Tenth Training Session. Today, we’ll work on more vowel sounds. The vowels OO, Uh and EH. Now, a few sessions ago, we discussed front and back vowels. If you remember the back vowels we discussed were OO, Uh, Oh, Au and Ah. OO as in Boot. Uh as in Book. Oh as in Boat. Aw as in Bought and Ah as in Bot(which is a nonsense word) ??So, let’s talk about the first one now. OO, OO. The OO sound is in the word Move. Notice how my lips are?puckered?tight and forward OO. Move. If you don’t bring your lips tight and forward you’re not going to make the correct sound and if you don’t do this right, the OO will sound like?[ ? ]??and Move will sound like?[ m?v ]. And that is no good. Practise these words with me, making sure your lips are coming forward and that you’re getting that clear OO sound. Here we go. Blue Booth News Juice Loosen Ruler Food Choose Mood Moving Loop Knew Tooth Smooth Pool Moon Shoes Zoo Grew Room ? Ok, now let’s go over these sentences. ? The room in the school was very cool. Tuesday at noon in the studio. Viewing the moon on June nights. Good. Okay, now let’s try this paragraph. Do you remember the woman who lived in a shoe? She hadn’t a clue what to do when her family grew. Well, through your help, they are moving in June into two big boots. ? ???Very good. Now at times you know English pronunciation can be very confusing. Here is one of those times. There are many words that are spelled with the double O. As we just went over and in most of these words, the vowels are pronounced as OO. However, here’s the confusing part. There are also many words that are spelled with the double O. But there’re not pronounced with the OO vowel. They’re pronounced as Uh which is a lower vowel. Let me show you. The word Food has a double OO and it’s pronounced as OO-Food. Ok? But the word Foot is also spelled with the double OO. B