Long Vowels

LONG VOWELS

There are five long vowel sounds in English. These are the phonemic symbols for each.

/ɑː/ /ɔː/ /iː/ /ɜː/ /uː/

Take care to write each symbol 100% correctly.

/ɑː/ NOT /aː/ /ɔː/ NOT /oː/ /iː/ NOT /Iː/

/ɜː/ NOT /ʒː/ /uː/ NOT /ʊː/

1. What is this sound? /ɑː/

Write down two words which contain this sound:

Now say these words below. Underline the long vowel sound in each word.

bark dark hark lark park

2. What is this sound? /ɔː/

Now say these words below. Underline the long vowel sound in each word.

bought board/bored court/caught cord/chord door

3.What is this sound? /iː/

Write down two words which contain this sound:

Now say these words below. Underline the long vowel sound in each word.

bead deed meat/meet gene magazine

4. What is this sound? /ɜː/

Write down two words which contain this sound:

Now say these words below. Underline the long vowel sound in each word.

bird fir/fur heard/herd worse verse

5. What is this sound? / uː/

Write down two words which contain this sound:

Now say these words. Underline the long vowel sound in each word.

boot doom June loom womb

Now say these words:

/ɑː/ /ɔː/ /iː/ /ɜː/ / uː/

barn born bean burn boon

car court/caught key curl coot

heart hawk heat hurt hoot

bard bored/board bead bird booed

far four/for feed fur/fir food

jar jaw G germ Jew

Note: Some of the words above are homophones = words which sound identical but have a different spelling and a different meaning. English has many common homophones. Examples are bored/board; court/caught; herd/heard