JSS2 ENGLISH STUDIES THIRD TERM WEEK FOUR
CONTENT
- Speech Work: The Vowel Sounds /u/ and /u:/
- Structure: The Use of Causative Verbs
- Vocabulary Development: The Nigerian Armed Forces
- Literature: Prose – Reading and Analysis of the Recommended Text. ‘The Triumph of Doggedness’by Stephen Ekwealormmeh.
ASPECT: Speech Work
TOPIC: The Vowel Sounds /u/ and /u:/
The Vowel Sounds /u/ and /u:/
The two sounds above are vowel sounds of which one is a variant of the other. The vowel sound /u/ is the short form of the sound /u:/ which is the long variant of it. The long /u:/ sound can be found in words like cube, huge, tube, mule, rule etc.
As we have in the examples below:
- The baby is cute.
- The tree is huge.
- In my house, we have many rules.
- The paste is in a tube.
The short /u/ sound however can be found in words like full, put, could, flute, all, duke, etc.
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