UH
Sound
ʊ (put, foot)
English Pronunciation, Lesson 05
The UH sound (IPA symbol: ʊ) can be found in words such as:
put, full, sugar, foot, good, should.
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(Note: in the video the term "soft palate" will be mentioned.
Soft palate means "the soft part at the back of the top of the mouth".)
Have you watched it? Good! Let's practice...
Say these words out loud (UH sound is bold):
1) put
2) full
3) pull
4) sugar
5) bush
6) book
7) cook
8) foot
9) good
10) look
11) could
12) should
13) would
14) cookie
15) wool
16) bull
17) cookbook
18) push
Now say these sentences out loud (UH sound is bold):
1) Put the book on your foot.
2) I want to read the full book.
3) He will pull the bull.
4) To cook with sugar is not healthy.
5) He could push his car.
7) He would eat a cookie if he could.
8) You should look at this cookbook.
9) They said they would buy some wool.
10) The bull pushed the bush.
Have you finished them all? Cool!
Well done! You have completed the UH sound lesson.
Let's move on...
Your next lesson: Lesson 06, OO Sound (moon, blue)
List of Lessons
Lesson 01: International
Phonetic Alphabet (IPA)
Lesson 02: Word
Stress and Syllables
Lesson 03: Long E
sound (meet,
see)
Lesson 04: Short I
Sound (sit,
hit)
Lesson 05: UH Sound
(put, foot)
Lesson 06:
OO Sound (moon,
blue)
Lesson 07: Short E
sound (pen, bed)
Lesson 08: Schwa
Sound (the, about)
Lesson 09: UR Sound (turn, learn)
Lesson 10: OH Sound (four, store)
Lesson 11: Short A
Sound (cat, fat)
Lesson 12: UH Sound (but, luck)
Lesson 13: Soft A
Sound (arm, father)
Lesson 14: Long O
Sound (boat,
know)
Lesson 15: Long A
Sound (say, pain, make)
Lesson 16: Short O
Sound (not, off, socks)
Lesson 17: Diphthong
(a combination of two vowel sounds)
Lesson 18: P Sound
(cup, punch, pull) and B sound (cub, bunch, bull)
Lesson 19: The Nasal
Sounds (M, N, NG)
Lesson 20: F Sound (four, lift, graph, tough) and V Sound (love, knives, grave, vine)
Lesson 21: W Sound (wow, quit, where)
Lesson 22: R Sound (red, sorry, write)
Lesson 23: H Sound (he, behind, who)
Lesson 24: T Sound (top, it, later) and D Sound (do, had, made)
Lesson 25: S Sound (sit, box, cats) and Z Sound (zip, buzz, boys)
Lesson 26: K Sound (kid, talk, black) and G Sound (go, big, dog)
Lesson 27: L Sound:
Light L & Dark L (tall,
like, English)
Lesson 28: Y
Consonant Sound (yes,
you, beyond)
Lesson 29: CH Sound (China, century, watch) and J Sound (Germany, educate , judge)
Lesson 30: TH
Consonant Sounds – voiced TH sound (the,
father, them) and voiceless
(unvoiced) TH sound (think,
birthday, south)
Lesson 31: SH
(shop, chef, special) and ZH (usual, massage, Asia)
Lesson 32: T and TT Sounds (true T sound, D sound, stop sound, silent T)
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