1. Read aloud the pairs of words. Single out the phonemes which are contrasted: deed-need, seek-seen, vain-lane
2. Define the number of syllables in the following words: family, careful, merry
3. Provide these words with necessary stress marks: left-handed, switch off, educate
4. Analyse the sentence considering the following points: Don’t you realize it’s quite against the rules to have him here?
a) find strong and weak forms;
b) find cases of assimilation;
5. Mark stresses and draw the scheme of the sentence which sounds contradicting: Well, I shouldn’t have been rude to her if she had stopped chattering when I asked her.