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[ɒ:] fully back, mid-
broad, rounded, long and tense
vowel - is pronounced with the
bulk of the tongue in the back
part of the mouth cavity. The
back of the tongue is raised in the
direction of the soft palate, higher
than for [ɒ ]. The lips are
rounded and slightly protruded to
form an opening which is much smaller than for [ɒ ]. The opening
between the jaws is medium.

[ɒ: ]
Task 87. Practise saying the words and the sentences correctly:
For, form, fork, fall, order, or lord, sort, call, daughter, A thought,
a talk, a yarn, a call, a walk, Maud, Paul, a stormy dawn, Adore,
adornment, afford, before, bore, bored, coarse, cohort; pore/pour,
reborn, record, reported, restore, scornful, seashore, shorn, short,
snore, soar, sordid, sorting, sports, sword, sworn, tore, torn, ward,
worn.
1. To cut a long story short.
2. Cora adores small talk.
3. To talk to Mort is like talking to the wall.
4. Maud is short. – Paul is tall.
5. Maud is walking on the lawn. Paul is crawling along a
wall. Maud warns Paul, “You’ll fall!” – “Not at all!, retorts Paul.

Task 88. Memorize the following nursery rhime, pay special
attention to the pronounciation of [ɒ: ]
Humpty-Dumpty sat on the wall.
Humpty-Dumpty had a great fall.
All the King’s horses and all the King’s men
Couldn’t put Humpty-Dumpty together again.

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