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a. listen and speak

Vowel/a:/

You have learnt to identify the four vowels, namely /i:/ as in
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dream, /I/ as in sit, /æ/as in match, and \e\ as in net.

Let us try to listen, identify and speak words with another vowel
sound.
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Task 1. Teacher says these words. listen and repeat.

part, mask, fast, shark, heart

hard, past, art, smart, bark

Can you identify the common sound in all of these words? Yes, it
is/a:/

Task 2. Teacher says these sentences and writes them on the
board. listen, and write them in your book and underline the
words that have /a:/ sound.

He is my father. He works in an art gallery. His master is an
old man, past seventy. All the workers there are smart and
sincere.

Consult a good dictionary to help you identify the sound.

Note: The word ‘all’ does not have the vowel sound/a:/

B. spoken English

situation-1

(Imagine the speaker in the story ‘Jamaican Fragment’ would like
to talk to the father of the kids. Both of them have been given some
names, not the real ones.)

Peter : Excuse me, I’m Peter. I’d been watching their games.
Hope I’m not bothering you too much.

Father : Oh, never, please do come inside. I’m Mark Berger,
Mark for short.

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