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: pantry, berries, nursery
3. Provide these words with necessary stress marks: pre-history, non-stop, representation
4. Analyse the sentence considering the following points: Tennis is played all the year round on hard courts, grass or covered courts.
a) find strong and weak forms;
b) find cases of assimilation;
5. Mark stresses and draw the scheme of the sentence which sounds very strong: If you don’t obey my instructions I’ll have to report you.