A1 · 4 minutes · Pronunciation

Shop or shut?

Listen for two short vowel sounds in British English.

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What you’ll practise

Hear the difference between the vowels in “stop” and “cup”.

Words to know

shut: To close.
sock: A piece of clothing you wear on your foot.
hungry: Wanting food.

Words at this lesson’s level (A1)

At A1, you probably know about 88% of the words in this lesson.

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These words are in the recording, so they also help with the answers.

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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