Spelling Rules - Short Vowels

Question 1

/ɪ/ (4)

Answer 1

i: sit, fish, chips
ie: cities, ladies
e: pretty, careless, houses
a: village, private

Question 2

/e/ (3)

Answer 2

e: set, went, bed
a: many, any
ea: dead, head, breath

Question 3

/æ/ (3)

Answer 3

a: sat, hand, marry
ai: plait, plaid
arr: carrot, carry, marry

Question 4

/ʌ/ (5)

Answer 4

oo: blood, flood
o: son, come
u: sun, cut, dull
ou: country, young, enough
oe: does

Question 5

/ə/ (9)

Answer 5

a: China, banana, Ana
e: children, vegetable
o: nobody

er: worker, plumber
or: mirror

our: colour
oar: cupboard

ou: jealous
ure: nature

Question 6

/ɒ/ (4)

Answer 6

o: dock, dog, gone
ou: cough, knowledge
a: was, want, quality
au: because, laurel, Austria

Question 7

/ʊ/ (4)

Answer 7

u: put, sugar, butcher
o: wolf, woman, bosom
ou: could, should, courier
oo: good, book, wool, wood