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[ ıə ] [ εə ]
[ eI ]
EA [ ɑ:]
[ i:]
[ e ]
Ex. 5.5 Read the following words. Identify the sound of each line.
[ ] 1. food, boot, foolish, boost
[ ] 2. good, cook, took, look
[ ] 3. should, would, could
[ ] 4. blood, flood
[ ] 5. door, four, floor, boor
[ ] 6. moor, tour, poor
[ ] 7. brooch
[ ] 8. round, found, sound, pound
[ ] 9. soul, bowl, mould, shoulder
[ ] 10. touch, rough, nourish, courage
[ ] 11. soup, group, boulevard, goulash
[ ] 12. thought, bought, caught, fought
[ ] 13. you, youth
Ex. 5.6 Pick out the odd word.
Example:
Like by ninth live
1. monkey — donkey — whiskey — key
2. feudal — few — sew — queue
3. cook – look – pound – could
4. foot — good — food — cook
5. round — house — ounce — trouble
6. could — would — mould — should
7. seize — receive — deictic – ceiling
8. toilet – tortoise – boycott – buoy
9. joy –oily –voyage – connoisseur
10. annoy – choice – they –joy – poison
11. pear — swear — near — bear
12. door – floor – start – small
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13. cream — head — leave — fleet
14. purple – thirsty – journey – there
15. ooze—wood—kangaroo—booze
16. courage — soul — trouble — nourish
17. plaintiff — raider — plaintive — plaid
18. bread – reads – pence – very
19. work – third – person – hair
20. size – grey – life – eye
21. buy – like – rich – kind
22. wear – ear - hear – nearly
23. earn – third – where – dirty
Ex. 5.7 Give 2 examples to each variant of pronunciation of the given digraph.
[ əυ ] [ aυ ]
[ u: ]
OU [ Λ ]
[ ɔ: ]
[ Ŋ ]
Ex. 5.8 Underline the words in which the vowel combinations are read according to the basic rule:
Cream, bleed, leave, fleet, death, dean, daily, head, rouge, great, tie, key, few, ceiling, thief, plain.
Oar, fair, fuel, fare, ore, type, ear, prior, giant, pure, fire, here, trial, real.
May, oak, coin, connoisseur, heaven, broad, seize, agree, soar, aid, via, fiery, idiot, lie, peer, fear, lean, Sunday, says, formulae, main, leisure, sea, eagle, receive, triumph, foam, aegis, sieve, needle, people, leopard, die, Leicester, pseudonym, ceiling, holiday, read, clear.
Reading of the digraph “ou” in homographes:
slough – сброшенная кожа змеи, забытая привычка; уныние, депрессия, болото.
wound – рана; крутиться, извиваться (past of wind)
Ex. 5.9 Translate the sentences and transcribe the underlined words:
1. When I was going through the slough, I saw a slough.
2. Sometimes your slough can remind about itself. We went to the forest and found a slough there.
3. A man was injured, he had a wound. A snake wound in the cage.
4. While he was wounding, somebody wounded him.
Ex. 5.10
Place the following words in the grids according to their vowel sound.
Rich\ curl\ death\ month\ shone\ lawn\ cart\ suit\ breathe\ flashed\ loom\ herd\ still\ earn\ hemmed\ poured\ torn\ scene\ cruise\ floor\ dock\ just\ would\ don\ sword\ hoop\ banned\ rang\ bin\ love\ hat\ bird\ stabbed\ hood\ farm\ ought\ ridge\ ton\ cloth\ chalk\ hoot\ son\ link\ next\ calm\ germ\ hymn\ cab\ wood\ breath\ creep\ itch\ blood\ cough\ should\ could\ black\ said\ pearl\ edge\ shopped\ eve\ barred\ soup\ leaf\ bard\ begged
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Short vowel sounds
| pit [pIt] | pat[pæt] | pet[pet] | putt[pʌt] | pot[pɒt] | put [pυt] |
Long vowel sounds
| peat [pi:t] | pert[pз:t] | part[pɑ:t] | port[pɔ:t] | boot[pu:t] |
Ex. 5.11
| a) Pronounce the words: foot – booth – flood booklet – coop – hook hoof – footer – looter wooed – wood – moorings taproom – sooty – woof doubt – honorable – tough neighbour – drought – coup should – soup – pouring thought – amount – loaches aloud – louver – brooch colourist – pounding – coulter | b) Choose the right variant: [u:] a) wood, b) foolish, c) country [Λ] a) ooze, b) flood, c) boot [υ:] a) good, b) brooch, c) floor [əυ] a) nourish, b) mould, c) koumiss [Λ] a) cough, b) tough, c) soup [u:] a) douche, b) bounce, c) sound c) Find the odd word: 1. plait, plaid, said, aiglet 2. heir, seize, ceiling, inveigle 3. Leicester, either, height, seismograph 4. break, great, steak, bread 5. tear, heart, fear, tear |
Ex. 5.12 Give some examples on each of these combinations, but all of them should denote the sound [ei]:
ai ei
[ei]
ay ey
Ex. 5.13 Pronounce the following pairs of words and write down the sounds:
[ ] – [ ]:
daughter – Dottie
caution – coughing
naughty – novice
[ ] – [ ]:
joined – John
oyster – ostrich
soiled – solid
[ ] – [ ]:
tomb – tour
view – viewer
queue – cure
[ ] – [ ]:
cleaning – clearly
ease – ears
[ ] – [ ]:
beer – bear
teary – dairy
peer –pair
[ ] – [ ]:
climb – cloud
finder – founder
dry – drought
Ex. 5.14 Divide the words into columns:
| [i:] | [e] | [aiə] | [I] |
Eel, bread, aegis, seize, leisure, said, quay, says, diet, key, monkey, ion, leopard, formulae, fiery, sweat, agree, giant, biscuit, lion, Leonard, connoisseur, violate, breath, diamond, auntie, pioneer, species, biological, people, jeopardy, piece, triumph, feather, via, friend, achieve, dialogue, mischief, diadem, build.
Ex. 5.15 Insert the suitable word:
fair/fare, buy/bye, waist/waste, flower/flour
1. This man in black is...
2. When you get on bus you have to pay...
3. My wife is satisfied with her good...
4. It is necessary to say “Good...” when you leave home.
5. It is a... of time.
6. I am proud of my...
7. We can’t bake a cake without...
8. The girl has painted a...
Ex. 5.16 Find a way from start to finish. You may pass a square only if the word in it has the sound [ aυ ]. You can move horizontally or vertically only.
START
| house | sound | group | about | mouth | cow |
| soup | out | brown | mouse | bought | south |
| could | couple | grow | low | would | cloud |
| know | snow | touch | ought | down | count |
| thought | should | slow | blow | pound | young |
| soul | country | though | throw | town | round |
FINISH
Ex. 5.17 Group the words below according to the pronunciation of the stressed vowels. Compare the meanings of single vowels and vowel combinations. What principle of reading vowel digraphs do the given words illustrate?
| 1. [e] 2. [eı] 3. [I] | 4. [i:] 5. [aı] 6. [əυ] | 7. [ɒ] 8. [ɔ I] 9. [u:] |
Antennae, beg, beige, believe, brooch, bruise, boy, buy, by, coin, die, dine, either, got, in, key, made, maiden, needle, neutral, obey, pay, people, receive, seat, she, shoulder, soap, sold, soup, steak, tune, true.
