Pronunciation and Spelling in English

 

Ex. 10.8 Each line contains three words that rhyme and one word that doesn’t. Choose the odd one out.

 

    Example:  steel  peal  stale  peel

 
 

Ex. 10.9 Spelling tests:

a) Each word here has the sound [e]. How many ways are there to spell this sound?  
Arrange the words into the groups:

b) Tick the words that have the vowel sound [ɒ]:

c) Each word here has the sound [Λ]. How many ways are there to spell this sound?  
Arrange the words into the groups:

d) Each word here has the sound [f]. How many ways are there to spell this sound?  
Arrange the words into the groups:

e) Each word here has the sound [eI]. How many ways are there to spell this sound? Arrange the words into the groups:

f) Each word here has the sound [i:]. How many ways are there to spell this sound?  
Arrange the words into the groups:

g) Each word here has the sound [aI]. How many ways are there to spell this sound? Arrange the words into the groups:

h) Each word here has the sound [əυ]. How many ways are there to spell this sound? Arrange the words into the groups:

i) Each word here has the sound [u:]. How many ways are there to spell this sound? Arrange the words into the groups:

 

Ex. 10.10 Find the rhymes

Here are some very short, two-line poems, but the rhyming words are missing. Try to guess the missing words which complete each poem.  If you can’t think of any, choose from the list.  
(The list contains some words which rhyme, but which do not make sense in the poems.)

A)

 

I think you ___________     She’s learned to ___________

To leave the __________    In just a __________________ 

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

You haven’t ________                                     It’s always ___________

A single ___________                                  Down on the __________ 

I like a ________

Last thing at ____

 
 
 
 
 
 
 

bike/ bird/ bite/ bought/ byte/ calm/ caught/ charm/ court/ farm/ feel/ fight/ harm/ heard/ herd/ leak/ leek/ light/ like/ listened/ meal/ might/night/ ought/ right/ should/ sight/ speak/ spoken/ talk/ taught/ token/walk/ weak/ week/ wood/ word/ work

 

B)

 

 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

This shirt you ______     I think I’ll __________

Is rather __________     A pound of _________ 

 
 
 
 
 
 
 

He’s learned to _______     It’s not too __________

In just one  __________     To lose some ________ 

I wish the ___________

Would make less ______ 

bought/ boys/ buy/ by/ caught/ day/ height/ kids/ late/ light/ mate/ meat/ meet/ night/ noise/ play/ poem/ read/ reed/ right/ shake/ short/ soon/ sound/ steak/ take/ toys/ wait/ weigh/ weight/ write

 

C)

 
 
 
 
 
 

I think the ______       It might make _____

Would like to _____      To build a ________ 

 
 
 
 
 
 
 

My youngest ________      I’ll try to __________

Sure likes to _________      To get a __________ 

He’s too ___________

To want to _________ 

alone/ aunts/ bone/ box/ dames/ dance/ fence/ fight/ friendly/ fun/ girls/ loan/ lone/ none/ one/ pence/ phone/ polite/ right/ run/ scared/ sense/ sight/ son/ sun/ trance 

 

11. Additional Practice in Reading and Memory Work

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          LES SILHOUETTES

Oscar Wilde

     The sea is flecked with bars of grey

     The dull dead wind is out of tune,

     And like a withered leaf the moon

     Is blown across the stormy bay.

 

     Etched clear upon the pallid sand

     The black boat lies: a sailor boy

     Clambers aboard in careless joy

     With laughing face and gleaming hand.

 

     And overhead the curlews cry, 

     Where through the dusky upland grass

     The young brown-throated reapers pass,

     Like silhouettes against the sky.

 

( , track 17)

          REQUIESCAT

Oscar Wilde

     Tread lightly, she is near

     Under the snow,

     Speak gently, she can hear

     The daisies grow.

 

     All her bright golden hair

     Tarnished with rust,

     She that was young and fair

     Fallen to dust.

 

     Lily-like, white as snow,

     She hardly knew

     She was a woman, so

     Sweetly she grew.

 

     Coffin-board, heavy stone,

     Lie on her breast,

     I vex my heart alone

     She is at rest.