Practical task 8.

1. Read aloud the pairs of words. Single out the phonemes which are contrasted: bad-bag, coming-cunning, bitter-bicker

2. Define the number of syllables in the following words: disappear, cottage, walking

3. Provide these words with necessary stress marks: shop-window, vice-consul, forecast

4. Analyse the sentence considering the following points: Anne was so slow in moving her pieces that I was afraid my father would get cross.

a) find strong and weak forms;

b) find cases of assimilation;

5. Mark stresses and draw the scheme of the sentence which sounds warning: I deliberately omitted to give them that information.