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| Meaning | Spelling | Examples | Exceptions |
| I. Primary long | 1) vowel + vowel | diet | |
| 2) vowel + consonant + vowel vowel + consonant + “r” + vowel vowel + consonant + “le” vowel + consonant + “re” | pilot library idle fibre | ||
| II. Primary short | 1) vowel + consonant cluster + vowel vowel + consonant cluster +“le” | Render fiddle | |
| 2) vowel + consonant + “ic” vowel + consonant + “ish” vowel + consonant + “ity” | tragic polish cavity | ||
| 3) vowel + “v” + vowel | never | ∙fever ∙over ∙uvula | |
| 4) vowel + syllable + syllable | fa∙mi∙ly | cases with “u”: funeral | |
| 5) vowel + [ı]-closed syllable vowel + [(j)u:]-closed syllable | fa∙cet tri∙bune | stupid |
Ex. 3.1 (
, track 2)
Read the following names and decide, from their spelling, if the vowel is short or long. (If there is more than one vowel, focus on the vowel receiving most stress.) If you are not sure, check the recording.
Example: Mick = short Susan = long
| Mick | Susan | Dean | Sammy | Cathy |
| Martha | Jane | Luke | Tammy | Rose |
| Bert | Muriel | Patty | Pete | Ross |
| Ted | David | Becky | Bud | Simon |
| Beth | Mike | Mary | Tom | Jean |
| Timmy | Joan | Bonnie | Sheila | Bill |
| Primary short meaning | Primary long meaning |
Ex. 3.2 Read these words according to the rules:
Letter “A” (primary short and long meanings):
| barrel | gas | bat | land | shall |
| angry | cab | bag | band | marry |
| tangle | fat | tan | pack | cattle |
| back | has | sand | dad | carry |
| sail brain paper | baby lady main | able bacon wait | parade famous mate | lain pain fate |
Letter “E” (primary short and long meanings):
| best | clever | led | met | peck |
| bell | seven | set | beg | shell |
| send | very | men | lend | merry |
| berry | when | pen | bend | kettle |
| he | we | these | agree | evening | |
| she | be | me | even | deep | |
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Letters “I/Y” (primary short and long meanings):
| thimble thin chips | wish wiggle scribble | twin little picnic | fiddle kitchen history | ministry primitive system |
| why mine vice imply | rise idle license while | by fly nylon byre | rhyme arrive bicycle triangle | line kite file white | why mine vice imply | ||
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Letter “U” (primary short and long meanings):
| crumple under humble hungry | duck must funny ugly | begun thus thunder bungle | buck lust fuss yuck | cluck bud puck luck |
| tube duty dual | music tune computer | tune muse humour | unit use student | human cube tunic |
Letter “O” (primary short and long meanings):
| dot stop chop flop | cost doctor bottle body | robber coffee promise fox | cod shot stock con | cock cop wop doll | |
| so nose go probe phone open | hope rose joke | note whole quote | tone hole drove | ||
Ex. 3.3
