Words to Practice: nurse, stir, learn, refer, fir, skirt, shirt, dirt, turn, burn, thirst, fur, term, her, birth, blur, curl, girl, sir, heard, hurt, worst, were, verb, verse, word, world, worm, fertile, occur, murder, return, reserve, allergic, internal, anniversary, commercial, urban, superb, thirty, thirteen, concern, alert, nurse, herd.

Short and Long Vowel Oppositions: 

1. /ɔ:/ - /ɜ:/ 

• four – fur
• torn – turn
• warm – worm
• walker – worker
• walk – work  

     2. /e/ - /ɜ:/

• ten – turn
  
• Ben – burn
• bed – bird
• west – worst
• fest – first

      3. /ʌ/ -  /ɜ:/ 

• fun – fern
• bun – burn
• gull – girl
• bud – bird

Tongue Twisters: 

1.  A warm worm walks to work.
2.  The first birds I heard were the blackbirds.
3. Larry Hurley, a burly squirrel hurler, hurled a furry squirrel through a curly grill.
4. A nurse anesthetist unearthed a nest.
5. Sure, sir, the ship's sure shipshape, sir.