1. Read aloud the pairs of words. Single out the phonemes which are contrasted: pat-cat , supper-succour, wield-yield
2. Define the number of syllables in the following words: winter, cloudy, miner
3. Provide these words with necessary stress marks: articulate, anticyclone, north-west
4. Analyse the sentence considering the following points: I sent it back to those awful people immediately.
a) find strong and weak forms;
b) find cases of assimilation;
5. mark stresses and draw the scheme of the sentence which sounds emphatic and emotional: Doesn’t it occur to you that I’m the mistress of this class!