Pronunciation and Spelling in English

 
 
 

b) Give 2 examples of your own to each variant of pronunciation of the given digraph.

              

                                 [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
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

 

Short vowel sounds

 
 

Long vowel sounds

 
 

Ex. 5.11

 
 

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:

 

 

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.

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