Exercises.

a. act – activity use – to use

grave – gravity advice – to advise

occur – occurrence an excuse – to excuse

provoke – provocative a device – to devise

supreme – supremacy a house – to house

zeal – zealous close – to close

b. 'bird's-eye / 'bird's 'eye 'break-promise / 'break 'promise

'blue-stocking / 'blue 'stocking 'heavy-weight / 'heavy 'weight

'bread-and-butter / 'bread and 'butter 'red-book / 'red 'tape

'bluebell / 'blue 'bell 'redbreast / 'red 'breast

c. brief – brevity admit – admission neglect – negligent

broad – breadth antique – antiquity rector – rectorial

deep – depth assume – assumption pretend – pretension

mode – modify deceive – deception perceive – perception

please – pleasure collide – collision precise – precision

strong – strength compete – competition sagacious – sagacity

d. clip-clop rickety-rackety tick-tack

knick-knack riff-raff tip-top

mingle-mangle sing-song wish-wash

mish-mash shilly-shally wishy-washy

prittle-prattle ping-pong zig-zag

1. Swan smam over the the sea –

Swim, swan, swim;

Swan swam back again –

Well swum, Swan!

1. To market, to market, to buy a fat pig,

Home again, home again, jiggety jig;

To market, to market, to buy a fat hog,

Home again, home again, jiggety jog.

To market, to market, to buy a fat plum,

Home again, home again, market is done.

1. Bow-wow, says the dog;

Mew, mew, says the cat;

Grunt, grunt, says the hog,

And squeak, goes the rat.

Tu-whu, says the owl;

Caw, caw, says the crow;

Quacks quack, says the duck;

And moo, says the cow.

1. Susan Simpson

Sudden swallows swiftly skimming,

Sunset's slowly spreading shade,

Silvery songsters swiftly singing,

Summer's soothing serenade.

Susan Simpson strolled sedately.

Stifling sobs, suppressing sighs.

Seeing Stephen Slocum, stately

She stopped, showing some surprise.

‘Say', said Stephen, ‘sweetest sigher;

Say, shall Stephen spouseless stay?'

Susan, seeming somewhat shyer,

Showed submissiveness straight away.

Summer's season slowly stretches,

Susan Simpson Slocum she –

So she sighed some simple sketches -

Soul sought soul successfully.

Six September Susan swelters;

Six sharp seasons snow supplies ;

Susan's satin sofa shelters

Six small Slocums side by side.

Reference material:

1. С. Ф. Леонтьева. Теоретическая фонетика современного английского языка. М. Менеджер, 2002, cc. 10-20

2. М.А. Соколова. Теоретическая фонетика английского языка. М., Владос, 1996, cc. 6-18

3. Peter Roach. Phonetics and Phonology. CUP 2000, pp. 1-15