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Dictation or exercise practising the "ough" sounds



jannabanna
France

Dictation or exercise practising the "ough" sounds
 
Hi everyone,

I �m looking for dictations or exercises on the use of the "ough" sounds in English:

thought; enough; through; dough; thorough; cough; bough; etc.  Seems easy enough but nothing so far on the internet.  If nobody has any ideas, I �ll just have to make one up.

I"d be grateful for any help.

Jannabanna

16 May 2011      





AMaedgen
Korea, South

There �s a really funny scene from I Love Lucy in the episode called "The English Tutor," in which Ricky reads part of a book and struggles with all of the different ways to pronounce ough. The link for the youtube video is here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=osK2qKA5pZw. It �s a six minute video and the part about ough starts at 2 minutes 50 seconds. I was just looking for this video a couple of days ago. I remember watching this clip when I was in school and it stuck with me because it was so funny.
 
When I googled it I also found this website: http://www.helium.com/knowledge/7131-how-many-ways-can-the-letters-ough-be-pronounced-in-english. There aren �t any exercises, but there are articles that may give you ideas when you �re creating something.

16 May 2011     



Jayho
Australia

This might be of interest Jannabanna - A song - the OUGH song actually - http://suzyred.com/oughsong.html
 
There�s some sentences here that you can use for dictation: http://www.stickyball.net/phonics/163.html
 
Then of course there�s always these that do the e-mail rounds on a regular basis: http://englishinteractive.net/Conversation/Homographs.htm
 
Cheers
 
Jayhobo
 
 

16 May 2011     



jannabanna
France

Thanks for the info Amaedgen and Jayho!

16 May 2011     



aftab57
United Kingdom

http://www.teachingideas.co.uk/english/oughwords.htm

16 May 2011     



Abdou1980
Morocco

I have  got a song with its worksheet about spelling sounds .
if u are in dire need of the song, do give me your e-mail. I will be glad to help.


16 May 2011