The vowel sound / u: / as in “beauty”.

· Read the instruction to learn how to make the long sound /u:/.

The tongue is in the back part of the mouth. The back of the tongue is raised high in the direction of the soft palate. The soft palate is raised. The tip of the tongue is retracted from the lower teeth. /u:/ is more retracted and close than the English /u/, the distance between the jaws is narrower. The lips are rounded but not protruded, the opening between the lips is smaller and the degree of rounding is greater than for /u/.

· Listen to the target sound and the words and repeat. Look at the mouth diagrams to help you position your lips, tongue and jaw for the target sound. Transcribe the words.

/ u: u: u: /

· Read these words with the sound / u:/. Transcribe them.

Fool, shoes, soup, true, moon, do, rude, shoot, crew, group, rule, root, boot, new, too, drew, truth, tool, shoe, lose, who, rouble, threw, move, route, pool, solution, groove, prove.

· Listen to the sentences and repeat. Read each sentence aloud slowly at first, then as if you were telling it to someone in a natural way.

1) R u th felt in t u ne with the c oo l of a J u ne evening and admired the b eau ty of the m oo n.

2) There are quite a f ew m u sic s u per-stars on the London t u be.

3) These n ew bl ue sh oe s look b eau tiful with a navy bl ue coat.

4) On our cr ui se to Berm u da we played sn oo ker with our sch oo ner cr ew.

5) C oo lies are made from j ui cy fr ui ts and sugar.

6) The m u sic t u tor sang a t u ne on T u esday for the d u ke.

7) A f ew b eau tiful t u lips gr ew in the sch oo l garden in J u ly.

· Listen and copy the intonation and voice modulation on the CD.

I’d a swallow-tail coat of b eau tiful bl ue -

A brief which I bought off a b oo by

A couple of shirts and a collar or t wo,

And a ring that looked like a r u by!

We sail the ocean bl ue,

And our saucy ship’s a b eau ty;

We’re sober men and tr ue,

And attentive to our b eau ty.

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