How to tackle WAEC Test of Orals: Vowel / aː /

Answers to the practice exercises on vowel / iː /, vowel / ɪ / and vowel / e /

   / iː /           / ɪ /              / e / 

1. A             1. C.              1. C

2. A.            2. A.              2. D

3. C.            3. C.              3. D

4. C.            4. C.              4. D

5. A.            5. A.              5. C

6. **            6. **               6. B/D

Vowel / aː /

Pronounce as ARE. Please be reminded that this is a long vowel, as indicated by the colon. So, you have to drag the pronunciation a bit. 

/ aː /

'ar' park, bark, mark, card, market, art

'a' pass, last, task, dance, garage, class

        back, pack, fat, mat, rat, cat, mass

        (/ aː / is NOT pronounced in the words in red)

'er' clerk, sergeant, heart

'al' palm, calm, alms

others: guard, laugh, draught

Practice Exercise

From the words lettered A to D, choose the word that has the same vowel sound as the one represented by the letter(s) underlined. 

1. car

A. clerk

B. man

C. plait

D. quay

2. card

A. sand

B. talk

C. guard

D. mad

3. shark

A. lack

B. fact

C. garment

D. take

4. dance

A. thank

B. heart

C. rat

D. many

5. bargain

A. graph

B. about

C. goat

D. shame

The answers to the practice exercise will be provided in the next post. Thank you for reading. 

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