Machinery, scheme, scythe, child, Thames, weather, chef, Christmas, Thompson, chick, than, chic, chord, chalice, cliché, Chaos, neither, thyme, thrift, cheek, though, thorn, thaw, thief.
Ex.8 Practice reading the following words observing the rules of reading of consonant clusters:
a)Sheep, fish, Lewisham, mishap, ghost, rough, high, eight, daughter, Ghana, ghastly, ghee, gherkin, ghetto, ghillie, ghoul, Ghana, ghee, gharry, ghoulish, shoulder, shovel, show off, shrewd, shrink, Zhirinovsky, Zhukov, Zhivago, Zhejiang, Zhang, Zhuhai, photograph, shepherd, Stephen, Clapham, nephew, cheap, chair, charm, scheme, school, ache, cholesterol, chemistry, machinery, clef, sandwich, Charles, charter, charka, charivari, chateau, chauffeur, cheekbone, Chaucer, chauvinism, Chihuahua, chloral, choir, cholera, cholinesterase, pharmacology, pharyngeal, phoneme, phonetic, physiotherapy, phthisis, phylum
b) Wristband, knout, wryneck, Khachaturian, wreathe, Khan, Khyber, khanate, pneumothorax, Knox, knuckle, wrongheaded, Khrushchev, knurl, knockdown.
Ex.9 Read the proverbs; explain the reading of consonant clusters:
The tongue is not steel, yet it cuts.
Exception provesthe rule.
Where the shoe pinches.
Dont cross the bridge till you get to it.
Physicians mend or end us.
Neither fish nor flesh.
A bird in the hand is worth two in the bush.
A watched pot never boils.
A drowning man will catch at a straw.
Little knowledge is a dangerous thing.
Ex.10 Practice reading the following homophones:
Homophones are words (or combinations of words)
ü which sound the same, but are spelled differently and have different meanings: e.g. meet and meat, seen and scene.
ü There are some examples of one word sounding like a combinationof words: e.g. heed and hed.
ü Sometimes threewords (or combinations of words) sound exactly the same: e.g. Ill, isle and aisle.
Ø scent a distinctive smell, sent the past tense of send
Ø scene the place where an event takes place, seen the past tense of see
Ø site a piece of land, cite to quote
Ø session the meeting of a court, cession the act of ceding
Ø scull rowing motion, skull head bone
Ø sic to set upon, sick- ill
Ø sink to submerge, synch together in time
Ø soared to have sailed through the air, sword long fighting blade
Ø sucker one who sucks, succor relief
Ø plum purple fruit, plumb straight up and down
Ø profit money earned, prophet seer
Ø bark outer sheath of a tree, barque square-rigged sailing ship
Ø bloc an alliance, block square object
Ø bold brave, bowled knocked over
Ø boll round seed pod, bowl dish
Ø borough township, burrow dig into the ground
Ø bough tree branch, bow front of a ship, respectful bend
Ø burger meat sandwich, burgher merchant
Ø but excepting, butt the thick end
Ex.11 Practice reading the following twisters:
1. Have judgement not to judge this judgement judging by peoples judgement.
2. Each child has much chance to become the champion of the match.
3. This is a thick thimble.
4. A handsome singer sang an exciting song in English.
Ex. 12 Transcribe the following words:
Shop, fish, this, English, shot, three, cheese, something, thus, months, catch, through, that, child, chef, these, those, thirst, third, chop, shelf, anxious, trophy, scholarship, changes, England, machinery, gage, judge, science, echo, tongues, income, scheme.
Ex. 13(from Test your pronunciation Unit 32)