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中元音[ʌ]
Listen and practice:
单词:
1) cup [kʌp] luck [lʌk] truck [trʌk] duck [dʌk] buck [bʌk] much [mʌtʃ] puck [pʌk] suck [sʌk] mug [mʌg] hug [hʌg] rough [rʌf] nut [nʌt] but [bʌt] plug [plʌg]
sun [sʌn] love [lʌv]
2) cupboard ['kʌbəd] luggage ['lʌgidʒ] customer ['kʌstəmə] lucky ['lʌki] muddy ['mʌdi] cousin ['kʌzn] buggy ['bʌgi] sunny ['sʌni] suddenly ['sʌdənli]
thorough ['θʌrə] uncle ['ʌŋkl] brother ['brʌðə] couple ['kʌpl]
country ['kʌntri] muffler ['mʌflə]
句子:
1. Stop bugging me. / Shut up.
2. Cut the crap. It sucks!
3. His cousin is from a Muslim country.
4. Don’t suck the cup, but the nut.
5. The sun hugs the lucky duck that happens to bath in the mud.
6. He is lucky to have his luggage checked by that customs officer.
中元音[ə:]
Listen and practice:
单词:
1) bird [bə:d] chirp [ʃə:p] fur [fə:] dirt [də:t] earth [ə:θ] burp [bə:p]
girl [gə:l] hurt [hə:t] jerk [dʒə:k] curl [kə:l] merge [mə:dʒ] purse [pə:s]
sir [sə:] surge [sə:dʒ] verse [və:s] word [wə:d] germ [dʒə:m] church [tʃə:tʃ]
turn [tə:n] pearl [pə:l] world [wə:ld]
2) certain ['sə:tən] further ['f ə:ðə] nurture ['nə:tʃə] service ['sə:vis] alert [ə'lə:t]
burgher ['bə:gə] hurdle ['hə:dl] murder ['mə:də] murmur ['mə:mə] turtle ['tə:tl]
allergic [ə'lə:dʒik] dirty ['də:ti] thirty ['θə:ti] thirsty ['θə:sti] firmly ['fə:mli]
burgundy ['bə:gəndi] convert [kən'və:t] purpose ['pə:pəs] Gershwin ['gə:ʃwin]
purple ['pə:pl]
句子:
1. Sir, please look no further, the nurse is here.
2. Gershwin converted a verse into a musical surge.
3. The girl who has curly hair is allergic to dirt.
4. The bird chirped and murmured a word that hurt the turtle without being alert.
中元音[ə]
Listen and practice:
单词:
1) a [ə] at [ət] her [hə] for [fə] to [tə] per [pə] of [əv] was [wəz] were [wə]
2) under ['ʌndə] container [kən'teinə] sister ['sistə] further ['fə:ðə] professor [prə'fesə] hammer ['hæmə] farmer ['fɑ:mə] hunter ['hʌntə] corner ['kɔ:nə] again [ə'gein]
alert [ə'lə:t] visa ['vi:zə] Asia ['eiʃə] nervous ['nə:vəs] delicious [di'liʃəs] cautious ['kɔ:ʃəs] upon [ə'pɔn] over ['əuvə]
句子:
1. Again the professor's application for a visa was rejected.
2. My sister was under 18 and was nervous upon being questioned.
3. The farmer put a hammer in the corner.
4. He was cautious not to be cornered.
5. These containers are from Asia over the Pacific.
Exercise I 对比:
[ʌ] or [ɔ]: luck – lock / chuck – chop / smug – smog / rut – rot / buck – bock / nut – not / shut - shot / hut – hot / cup – cop / cut – cot / suck – sock
Exercise II
Sentences:
Mixture of [ʌ],[ə:] and [ə]:
1. My socks are dirty and my dogs are thirsty.
2. Shut the bugs out or they will spread germs.
3. Even a professor was nervous when he saw a doctor upon a surgery.
4. A girl called Buttercup Rust serves delicious burghers in a pub up in the hut.
5. The murderer was a jerk from New Jersey and was a brother of the cop.
Exercise III Tongue Twisters
1. Moose noshing much mush.
2. A skunk sat on a stump and thunk the stump stunk, but the stump thunk the skunk stunk.
3. Give papa a cup of proper coffee in a copper coffee cup.
How much wood would a woodchuck chuck
if a woodchuck could chuck wood?
He would chuck, he would, as much as he could,
and chuck as much wood as a woodchuck would
if a woodchuck could chuck wood.
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