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: female, dragons, unfortunate
3. Provide these words with necessary stress marks: timetable, make up, fundamental
4. Analyse the sentence considering the following points: Whenever people talk to me about the weather, I always feel quite certain they mean something else.
a) find strong and weak forms;
b) find cases of assimilation;
5. Mark stresses and draw the scheme of the sentence which sounds complete and definate: I’m told one ought to see the British Museum.