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”.
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A) 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 |
B) 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 |
C) 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 |
D) 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 |
4. Read and transcribe the following words.
a)Be, he, me, we, she, these, eat, tea, meat, pea, east, heat, feel, meet, see, agree, piece, believe, receive, machine, ski, people.
b)Sister, widow, city, taxi, myth, rhythm, syllabus, pretty, eleven, excuse, enemy, chocolate, manager, orange, palace, preface, honey, money, forehead, coffee, biscuit, women.
c)Egg, end, let, send, address, head, ready, deaf, heavy, any, many, Thames, friend, said, says, leisure.
d)Cats, cap, hat, carry, marry humanity.
e)Offer, odd, office, body, copy, sorry, what, want, swan, because, cough, knowledge.
f)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.
g)Union, duty, menu, amuse, nephew, blue, fruit, juice, cool, do, move, who.
h)Arm, far, answer, father, tomato, garage, vase.
i)Ugly, son, onion, done, some, glove, couple, cousin, flourish, double.
j)Term, dessert, her, purse, fur, occur, skirt, sir, early, earn, heard, learn, work, worse, worth, journey, journalist, were, connoisseur.
k)Struggle, egg, guest, guitar, monologue, language, distinguish.
l)Duck, pack, architect, mechanic, queue, antique.
m)Measure, division, usual, genre, rouge.
n)Think, three, tenth, method, bathe, mother, they, thus, than, that.
5. Choose the appropriate word.
1. 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.
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