A2 · 4 minutes · Pronunciation

Coat or caught?

Listen for the oh sound and the aw sound in British English.

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What you’ll practise

Hear the difference between the vowels in “go” and “saw”.

Words to know

coat: A piece of clothing you wear outside when it is cold.
catch: To take hold of something moving through the air.
boat: A small vehicle for travelling on water.

Words at this lesson’s level (A2)

At A2, you probably know about 100% of the words in this lesson.

The other words of this lesson are at A2 or below.

Word levels from the CEFR-J Wordlist 1.5 (Yukio Tono, Tokyo University of Foreign Studies); words not in it count as above B2. Your level is the one you chose in the level guide, otherwise the lesson’s.

Source

Original exercise by Joy English. Synthetic voice: Kokoro-82M (Apache-2.0).

Original script; synthetic narration.

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