Hello Learner, I hope you are fine.
In this lesson we are going to identify short and long vowel sounds.
Before that lets watch the video below.



The following is a list of 12 pure vowel sounds with 10 examples each:
| Vowel Sound | Example Words |
| /i:/ | Me, these, need, be, keep, deep, sheep, Jeep, beep, eat, feel, see, meet, deal, read, beat, peak, seek, heap, leap, feet, seat, heel, keen, seen, teen, leave |
| /?/ | With, this, if, think, link, wink, rink, sink, big, six, live, since, miss, wrist, lift, pit, sit, pick, bill, fill, till, him, pin, tin, win, bid, did |
| /?/ | Put, Would, Look, Woman, Hook, Nook, Food, Fool, Cool, Hue, Ooze, Moose, Boot, Cook, Rook, Took, Good |
| /u:/ | To, You, New, Who |
| /e/ | Get, When, Well, Very, Bed, Said, Leg, Hell, Hem, Ben, Pen, Den, Ten, Men, Bend, Lend, Send, Bet, Met, Pet, Set, Mess, Wreck, Peck, Letter, Better |
| /?/ | The, About, Could, Us |
| /?:/ | Her, Work, Learn, Word, Burn, Turn, Firm, Bird, Curd, Curse, Curt, Shirt, Turk, Curl, Hurl, Earl, Pearl, Sir, Worm, worth, Fir, Stir, Sir, Occur, Purr |
| /?:/ | Or, Also, More, Call, All, Mall, Hall, Shall, Fall, Tall, Wall, Paul, War, Ward, Warm, Reward, Walk, Wart |
| /æ/ | Have, That, As, Can, Sad, bad, Bag, Lag, Hal, Ham, Ban, Pan, Dan, Tan, Man, Band, Land, Sand, Bat, Mat, Pat, Sat, Mass, Rack, Pack, Latter, Batter |
| /?/ | But, Up, One, Much |
| /?:/ | Start, Ask, Large, After |
| /?/ | Of, On, From, Not |

Pronouncing words is a physical activity. You can go through these sounds whenever you need to think about these. In all the different ways of pronunciation, the position of your tongue would change.
THE FOLLOWING ARE WORD FAMILIES THEY WILL HELP YOU IN YOUR READING.