Word-by-Word and in a Sentence

　　that

　　He said th't it's OK.

　　than

　　It's bigger th'n before

　　as

　　'z soon'z he gets here...

　　at

　　Look' t the time!

　　and

　　ham'n eggs

　　have

　　Where h'v you been

　　had

　　He h'd been at home.

　　can

　　C'n you do it

　　Exercise 3-2:

　　Finding , , and Sounds

　　There are five ,

　　ten ,

　　and seventy-five sounds in the following paragraph.

　　Underscore them in pen or pencil.

　　The first one of each sound is marked for you.

　　Next, check your answers with the Answer Key, beginning on page 193.

　　Finally, take your markers and give a color to each sound.

　　For example,

　　mark green,

　　blue, and yellow.

　　Turn your CD off

　　and read the paragraph three times on your own.

　　Exercise 3-3:

　　Vowel-Sound Differentiation

　　Here we will read down from 1 to 24,

　　then we will read each row across.

　　Give the sound a clear double sound ee.

　　Also, the o is a longer sound than you might be expecting.

　　Add the full ooh sound after each "o."

　　Ann

　　ban

　　can

　　cat

　　Dan

　　fan

　　gap

　　hat

　　Jan

　　lamp

　　man

　　matter

　　Nan

　　gnat

　　pan

　　ran

　　sand

　　shall

　　chance

　　tack

　　van

　　wax

　　yam

　　zap

　　on

　　bond

　　con

　　caught/cot

　　Don/dawn

　　fawn

　　gone

　　hot

　　John

　　lawn

　　monster

　　motto

　　non

　　not/knot

　　pawn

　　Ron

　　sawn

　　Sean

　　chalk

　　talk

　　Von

　　want

　　yawn

　　czar

　　un~

　　bun

　　come

　　cut

　　done

　　fun

　　gun

　　hut

　　jump

　　lump

　　Monday

　　mutter

　　none/nun

　　nut

　　pun

　　run

　　sun

　　shut

　　chuck

　　tuck

　　vug

　　won/one

　　young

　　result

　　across

　　1.

　　Ann

　　on

　　un~

　　2.

　　ban

　　bond

　　bun

　　3.

　　can

　　con

　　come

　　4.

　　cat

　　caught/cot

　　cut

　　To have your pronunciation tested, call 800 457-4255.

　　Exercise 3-4:

　　Reading the Sound

　　The Tn Mn

　　A fashionably tan man

　　sat casually at the bat stand,

　　lashing a handful of practice bats.

　　The manager,

　　a crabby old bag of bones,

　　passed by and laughed,

　　"You're about average, Jack.

　　Can't you lash faster than that"

　　Jack had had enough,

　　so he clambered to his feet

　　and lashed bats faster

　　than any man had ever lashed bats.

　　As a matter of fact,

　　he lashed bats so fast

　　that he seemed to dance.

　　The manager was aghast.

　　"Jack, you're a master bat lasher!"

　　he gasped.

　　Satisfied at last,

　　Jack sat back

　　and never lashed another bat.

　　Pause the CD and read The Tn Mn aloud.

　　Turn it back on to continue.

　　Exercise 3-5:

　　Reading the Sound

　　A Lt of Lng, Ht Walks in the Garden

　　John was not sorry

　　when the boss called off the walks

　　in the garden.

　　Obviously, to him,

　　it was awfully hot,

　　and the walks were far too long.

　　He had not thought

　　that walking

　　would have caught on

　　the way it did,

　　and he fought the policy

　　from the onset.

　　At first,

　　he thought he could talk it over

　　at the law office

　　and have it quashed,

　　but a small obstacle*

　　halted that thought.

　　The top lawyers always bought coffee

　　at the shop across the lawn

　　and they didn't want to stop

　　on John's account.

　　John's problem was not office politics,

　　but office policy.

　　He resolved the problem

　　by bombing the garden.

　　Pause the CD

　　and read A Lt of Lng, Ht Wlks in the Grden aloud.