- •The organs of speech
- •Classification of speech sounds
- •Classification of vowels
- •Vowel sounds
- •Vowel sounds
- •Vowel sounds
- •Vowel sounds
- •Proverbs with consonants
- •Proverbs with diphthongs
- •Triphthongs
- •Stress (exercises):
- •In pairs, write sentences to illustrate the other meanings of the words. Homophones and homonyms
- •Intonation
- •The use of the falling tone (Glide Down)
- •The use of the rising tone (Glide Up)
- •Reduction
- •Intonation of different kinds of the simple sentences
- •Intonation of enumeration
- •Intonation of adverbials
- •Intonation of parentheses
- •Intonation of direct address
- •Intonation of “please”
- •Intonation of “thank you”
- •Intonation of compound sentences
- •Intonation of complex sentences
- •Intonation of the author’s words
- •Exercises
- •In the following lists of words four words rhyme. Circle the odd man out in each case.
In the following lists of words four words rhyme. Circle the odd man out in each case.
Feast, beast, best, priest, least.
Tea, pea, sea, tee, tie.
Bough, now, vow, sow, cow.
Weigh, high, pay, obey, gray.
Care, fair, fire, dare, pair.
Raft, what, daft, can’t, half.
Cart, part, ward, dart, heart.
Pull, bull, wool, dull, full.
Tough, cough, rough, enough, muff.
Load, road, toad, loud, goad.
Put the following words in the correct column, according to the pronunciation of a) a plural ending; b) the possessive “s”; c) the Present Simple “s”; d) the Past Simple “ed”.
Pencils, maps, rooms, books, desks, chairs, classes, boxes, cities, days, places, students, families, boys, photos, dishes, heroes, chiefs, roofs, handkerchiefs, leaves, wives, keys, pupils, lessons, pens, duties, tomatoes.
[z] (after a voiced consonant or a vowel)
[s] (after a voiceless consonant)
[iz] (after –ss, -x, -sh, -ch; se, ce, ze, ge)
bags
hats
inches, judges
The girl’s bag, the horse’s leg, John’s book, Jack’s room, the student’s dictionary, the children’s parents, the teacher’s question, a month’s holiday, the Jones’s children, my sister-in-law’s hat, Peter’s brother, the students’ desks, yesterday’s meeting, for order’s sake, at a stone’s throw.
[z] (after a voiced consonant or a vowel)
[s] (after a voiceless consonant)
[iz] (after –ss, -x, -sh, -ch; se, ce, ze, ge)
The girl’s book
Kate’s hat
the judge’s bag
He reads, she works, he sees, he passes, she dresses, he teaches, she goes, he washes, he fixes, he places, she studies, he copies, she plays, he buys, she writes, he paints, she answers, he says, she draws.
[z] (after a voiced consonant or a vowel)
[s] (after a voiceless consonant)
[iz] (after –ss, -x, -sh, -ch)
He reads
She writes
He teaches
I lived, she worked, we expected, they arrived, it ended, he called, I received, she recognized, he looked, they wanted, she used, he paid, we watched, they gathered, she picked, he played, she said, they answered, she asked, they moved, he turned, she examined.
[d] (after a voiced consonant or a vowel) |
[t] (after a voiceless consonant) |
[id] (after –t, -d) |
They informed |
He asked |
They waited |
Read and transcribe the following words.
Be, he, me, we, she, these, eat, tea, meat, pea, east, heat, feel, meet, see, agree, piece, believe, receive, machine, ski, people.
Sister, widow, city, taxi, myth, rhythm, syllabus, pretty, eleven, excuse, enemy, chocolate, manager, orange, palace, preface, honey, money, forehead, coffee, biscuit, women.
Egg, end, let, send, address, head, ready, deaf, heavy, any, many, Thames, friend, said, says, leisure.
Cats, cap, hat, carry, marry humanity.
Offer, odd, office, body, copy, sorry, what, want, swan, because, cough, knowledge.
Order, port, nor, ball, alter, false, bald, salt, talk, walk, water, August, author, draw, thaw, dawn, awful, warm, quarter, war, wore, implore, your, four, pour, fought, bought, thought, brought, daughter, naughty, caught, taught, door, floor, broad, often.
Union, duty, menu, amuse, nephew, blue, fruit, juice, cool, do, move, who.
Arm, far, answer, father, tomato, garage, vase.
Ugly, son, onion, done, some, glove, couple, cousin, flourish, double.
Term, dessert, her, purse, fur, occur, skirt, sir, early, earn, heard, learn, work, worse, worth, journey, journalist, were, connoisseur.
Struggle, egg, guest, guitar, monologue, language, distinguish.
Duck, pack, architect, mechanic, queue, antique.
Measure, division, usual, genre, rouge.
Think, three, tenth, method, bathe, mother, they, thus, than, that.
Choose the appropriate word.
The (pen, pan) leaks. 2. There’s something wrong with my (bag, back).
3. Don’t (seat, sit) on that (seat, sit). 4. Don’t (slip, sleep) on the floor. 5. The (man, men) are tired. 6. My (foot, feet) aches. 7. His (tooth, teeth) has been stopped. 8. It’s a (bed, bad) mistake. 9. He is at (walk, work) now. 10. I (bag, beg) your pardon. 11. The boot is (fool, full). 12. The hotel has a (pull, pool). 13. There is a (ship, sheep) in the field. 14. He (tasted, tested) the pie. 15. It’s wooden (shed, shade). 16. It’s a bad (pain, pen). 17. She is (lacy, lazy). 18. We wear a (bus, buzz). 19. The (price, prize) is high. 20. He feeds the (dock, dog). 21. The (kick, cake) is hard. 22. In the evening I (read, rid) books. 23. His eyebrows are (sick, thick). 24. Stop talking. I’m (sinking, thinking). 25. (Fast, past) means “quick”. 26. The (rack, rag) is on the (rack, rag). 27. We (leave, live) in Kyiv. 28. It’s (heat, hot) in the room.