Rhymes
[æ]
Ann’s cat is black.
A black cat sat on a mat and ate a fat rat.
Pat’s black cat is in Pat’s black hat.
What a big black cat! What a cat! What a cat!
If you, Andy, have two candies, give one candy to Sandy, Andy.
[ɒ]
John’s dog Tobby got lost.
Cob is Bob’s dog, Tob is Mob’s dog.
Polly wants her coffee strong.
How odd! It’s so hot,
But there’s no frogs in the pond!
I may be off my dot, but I want a cup of coffee from a proper coffee pot.
Iron coffee pots and tin coffee pots, they are no use to me.
If I can’t have a proper cup of coffee from a proper copper coffee pot,
I’ll have a cup of tea.
[e]
They can retell texts very well.
They spell words well.
They help friends to do tests well almost every day.
[ı]
Fish and swim in this river.
Living in big cities is interesting.
Miss, miss, little miss,
When she misses, she misses like this.
This little inn is in this village.
Six fit fishers shipped six thick dishes.
The history and mystery of a big big city.
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[æ], [ı]], [,[b]
Bit a big black bear.
And a big black bear
Bit a big black bug.
[ı], [ı:], [s]
Sid sees, Sid sees, Sid sees
Six trees, Six trees, Six trees.
[ı], [ı:]
Oh, swing the king and swing the queen.
Oh, swing them round and round the green.
[n]
Nine, nineteen and ninety.
[p]
Peter has a pencil, Peter has a pen.
Peter Piper picked a pack of pickled pepper,
A pack of pickled pepper Peter Piper picked.
If Peter Piper picked a pack of pickled pepper,
Where’s the pack of pickled pepper Peter Piper picked?
[ı:]
A girl sees three big grey geese.
He went to see what he could see, and all he could see was sea, sea, sea.
Love’s a feeling you feel when you feel you are going to feel the feeling you’ve never felt before.
I scream, you scream, we all scream for ice-cream.
[t], [k]
Ticks Tommy’s clock.
“Tick-tock, tick-a-tock” –
Ticks and ticks his clock.
[ð], [z]
A tiger lives in the zoo, in the zoo, in the zoo.
A zebra lives there too, in the zoo, in the zoo.
[ð]
These are their mother and father.
This is their other brother.
Their other brother is teasing.
[w]
Why do you cry?
Why, Willy? Why, Willy?
Why, Willy? Why?
[w], [ʧ]
How much wood would a wood-chuck chuck,
If a wood-chuck would chuck wood?
Which switch is which?
[əʊ], [α]
[sw]
“Swim, swan, swim!”
Swan swam back again,
Well swam swan.
[s], [∫]
[e], [ı:]
[u:]
Tried to tutor two tooters to toot.
[aʊ]
[ʊ]
How many cookies could a good cook cook, if a good cook could cook cookies?
A good cook could cook as much cookies as a good cook, who could cook cookies!
[u:], [ʊ]
[u:], [w]
Two-two was one too.
When One-one won one race
Two-two won one too.
[ʒ:]
[a:]
[eı]
Let’s feed my dame’s crane and come home again.
Rain, rain, go to Spain! Never show your face again!
[aı]
There is no need to light a night light on a light night like tonight.
Engine, engine number nine
Running on Chicago line.
If it’s polished it will shine,
Engine, engine number nine.
[u:], [θ]
If a three-month truce is a truce in truth,
Is the truth of a truce in truth a three-month truth?
[b]
Betty bought a bit of butter. But, she said: “This butter’s bitter, but a bit of better butter will make my batter better.”