Vowels in the unstressed syllables.

e,i,y,a (with the following mute ein the verbal nouns and adjectives)are read [ i ] : ticket [‘tikit], climate [‘klaimit].

o,u,a(without the following mute e) are read [ ə ] : stylus [‘stailəs], data [‘deitə ].

Nasal and lateral plosions can have [ ə ] only, no matter what vowel they contain:

label [‘leib(ə)l], lesson [ ‘les(ə)n].

1. Read the following words:

 

rickets magnet pellet fetish candid pallid splendid

belly tiny palmate palace necklace cabbage salvage

comma vista divot beckon campus datum citrus

mitten vessel navel legal vital gambol symbol

 

2. Transcribe the words:

 

fatal fennel pinnate mental lessen picket

liken penal sylvan tribal cancel mammal

Cactus lilac Linus Rena Cynna Damon

Abel spinal cricket kitten linnet venal

ribbon crystal bandit album final village

TEST

 

scenic since cedar knell cite eke

cells fever knit maze vice elks

knickers cackle cycle sensors bells fecund

visor penal cancer clips veto fans

heckle milage tenton fillet fizz bevel

 

3. Read the following words:

A

style spy dry type cycle

lynx cyst pygny myth lynch

baby icy puny puffy lumpy

yap yarn yelp yard yell

 

В

tube

tulip

jume

juse

muse

under

upper

dust

number

vulgar

lunar

brute

jute

rude

lute

sing

song

cling

single

tangle

4. Transcribe:

A

truckle

truce

dyke

scurry

scruple

yoke

prune

trundle

tutoe

super

gurgle

flyer

fame

flurry

flutter

flute

yarn

muse

mutter

lunar

lusty

ruse

ruffle

sundry

dry

gypsy

eke

plum

plume

ply

yonder

ruby

rudder

crypt

cyclist

Judy

jumpy

curry

curdle

Lynne

grocer

В

garlic

campus

solo

legal

liberty

magnet

ovum

photo

sudden

parley

rickets

parrot

veto

gambol

ferrous

surface

comma

zero

kitten

marrow

datum

motto

mitten

willow

data

solo

squirrel

morrow

С

росket

data

sambo

final

garden

ribbon

lesson

Sydney

fellow

pillow

funny

notice

bandit

climate

hippo

dollar

crystal

album

venous

village

D

flurry

label

liken

parcel

nirmal

focal

lesson

lunacy

amber

pupa

freckle

local

mortal

fluster

person

frugal

picket

nasal

sylvan

gable

ferry

kerry

necklace

rue

folder

liberal

cylinder

noble

murmur

calico

mental

dapple

parson

mutiny

portal

cycle

borrow

penal

burden

funnel

sorrow

 

5. Arrange the words into two columns according to the type of reading:

[u] [u:]

Rook, wood, soothe, rood, good, crook, cook, food, troop, nook, took, swoop, zoo, hoof, foot.

6. Arrange the words according to reading of the combination "ea" [i:] or [e].

clean, read, head, pleasure, reason, heat, please, measure, teacher, spread, lead, death, weak, bread, meal.

7. Find homophones (words which are pronounced in the same way):

miner prey be gate rode cell by b red	berth bread sell minor bee pray beat dye
birth	road
beet	gait
die	bye

 

 

6. Transcribe:
A
vein	head	vault	auction
point	zoo	way	cray
they	August	mount	sailor
too	wood	creed	grey
about	scout	crouch	toy
wait	moon	cream	amount
keep	Maudie	cause	may
neutral	shook	audible	coal
beat	around	clay	week
road	daisy	cool	cream
oil	ceiling	dead	mountain
joy	appoint	soap	painter
В
coil	outside	boat	meet
noon	raincoat	heat	bound
voice	feeling	easy	oak
hey	season	hoop	neither
tooth	throat	plain	nail
scull	thousand	seem	eagle
lain	neutron	book	eagle
head	stay	loud	fleet
leap	load	fail	spoil
say	noun	meal	boot
raise	sweep	sound	pay

 

Intonation.

ALTERNATIVE QUESTIONS

Alternative questions have two syntagms. The first syntagm is pronounced with the Low Rise and the second one is pronounced with the Low Fall.

Intone and read:

Exercise 1:

1.Is it a pen or a pencil?

2. Is it a garden or not?

3. Is this a cap or a hat?

4. Is that a pan or a kettle?

5. Is this Olive's or Dorothy's car?

6. Is that animal a tiger or a lion?

7. Is the box light or heavy?

8. Is Bob six or seven?

9. Is Mrs. Nelson twenty-seven or twenty-eight?

10. Is Barbara a secretary or a typist?

11. Is his Dad's name Charles or James?

12. Is Max in San Francisco or in Los Angeles?

13. Is it an easy sentence or a difficult one?

14. Is this a silk dress or a velvet one?

Exercise 2:

1. Are these pots or boxes'?

2. Are these modern cars or not?

3. Are those carpets or cloths?

4. Are these Carl's or Arnold's relatives?

5. Are those children ten or eleven?

6. Are the leaves green or yellow?

7. Are they secretaries or clerks?

8. Are these kiddies in the city or in the village?

9. Are they black bags or yellow ones?

10. Are they golden bracelets or silver ones?

11. Has Tom a cat or a dog?

 

Practice.

A black cat sat on a mat and ate a fat rat.

 

A tutor who tooted the flute
tried to tutor two tooters to toot.
Said the two to the tutor,
"Is it harder to toot or
to tutor two tooters to toot?"

 

How can a clam cram in a clean cream can?

 

Something in a thirty-acre thermal thicket of thorns and thistles

thumped and thundered threatening the three.

The thoughts of Matthew the thug - although, theatrically,

it was only the thirteen-thousand thistles and thorns

through the underneath of his thigh

that the thirty year old thug thought of that morning.

 

Walter was with us when we went away.

 

When one has not what one wants,

One must want what one has.

 

Whether the weather be fine

Or whether the weather be not.

Whether the weather be cold

Or whether the weather be hot.

Be weather the weather

Whatever the weather

Whether we like it or not.

 

Without your tongue you cannot talk,

Without your feet you cannot walk.

Without your eyes you cannot see,

Without your heart you cannot be.

 

A cook took a good look at the book.

A good foot stood in the wood.

 

My doggy is funny

My doggy is small

It likes to run, to hop and to roll

About the carpet like a ball

It never bites me. Not at all.