T 5 /u: U əU ɔ : /(9-12)

9.  /  u:  /  -----  high-back, tense, round

It has the same speech sound as the letter cluster ‘ue’ in the word ‘blue’.

         

        o  ---  tomb

oo ---  boom, bloom, boon, boost, boot, booth,                     (15)                                       

                  cool, coop, doodle, doom, food, fool, proof, prove, goose, 

                  groom, hoop, loop, loose, loom, moon, moose, noon, pool,

                  roof, root, room, soon, spoon, troop, zoo

ou  ---  coupon, group, nougat, rouble, rouge, soup, toucan

       

u    ---  rude, crude

       

        ue  ---  accrue, blue, glue, sue, rue

        ew  ---  blew, brew, cashew, chew, clew, crew, drew, grew, shrew, 

                   shrewd, slew, stew,

10.  /  U   /  ----  high-back, lax, round

It has the shorter speech sound than /  u:  /

oo  ---  book, cook, crook, foot, good, goody, hook, look, nook, poof,   

                   rook, shook, soot, took, wood, wool,

        o   ---  bosom, wolf, woman

        u   ---  bull, bullet, bully, cushion, full, fulfil, fulsome, pull, put

11.  /   әU   /  -----  mid-back, tense, round

It has the same speech sound as the letter ‘O’.

        o  ---  O, close, clothes, crop, comb, go, gross, grocer, doe, hoe, foe, 

                  toe, holy, home, lotion, lotus, mobile, most, motion,

                  motivate, motive, motor, open, poll, roll, toll,

        o-e --- bole, dole, grope, rope, hole, hope, mole, pole, pope, role,

                  sole

               

        oa ---  oat, bloated, boat, coat, coast, coax, foal, foam, goat, gloat,

                  groan, hoax, moan, moat, poach, roach, road, roam, roan, 

                  soap, toad, toast

                                 

ol  ---  old, bold, cold, gold, hold, sold, told,

        ou ---  dough, mould, moult, soul, poultry,                            (16)

        ow ---  blow, low, bowl, crow, flow, grow, owe, own row, throw,

                   window, yellow

12.  /   Ɔ:  /  ----- mid-back, lax, round

/  Ɔ:  / has the shorter speech sound than /  әU  /.  It has the  same speech sound as the word ‘awe’

        a/al  ---  bald, balk, false, water,

       

        all   ---  all, ball, call, fall, gall, hall, mall, small, pall, tall, stall, wall,

        ar  ---  war, ward, warn, warm, warp,

                             

 au  ---  aught, August, author, authority,                                                                                                            

            audience, automatic, daughter, daub, daunt, fault, haunt

        aw  --  claw, law, lawyer, dawn, maw, crawl, raw, saw, jaw, yawn

        oar  --  oar, board, coarse, boar, board, hoarse,

        or  ---  or, chord, cord, core, corn, corner, lord, lore, more, nor,

                  normal, north, orbit, port, sport, short, sort,

        our  --  your,