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REVIEW EXERCISES

Exercise 23. Review 4 types of reading of English vowels and complete the table below.

  Letters Types of reading
I Open syllable II Closed syllable III + r (+ consonant) IV + r + vowel
a [ ] [ ] [ ] [ ]
o [ ] [] [ ]
e [ ] [ ] [ ] [ ]
u [ ] [ ] [ ]
i / y [ ] [ ] [ ]

Exercise 24.Read the words and write down the phonetic symbol for the underlined letters. Define the type of reading of each column.

Van [ ] hare [ ] blade [ ] car [ ]

Ebb [ ] here [ ] bee [ ] perfume [ ]

Silly [ ] tired [ ] fine, fly [ ] bird [ ]

Doll [ ] store [ ] rope [ ] fork [ ]

Stuff [ ] pure [ ] tube [ ] turkey [ ]

Exercise 25.Read and transcribe the words. Do not forget to put the stress mark if a word has two or more syllables.

Fate, fat, far, fare; Tube, tub, turn, cure; Late, flat, lark, fare;

File, fill, first, fire: Style, gypsy, Byrd, tyre; Side, disc, circle, fired;

Peter, pet, pert, here; Eve, check, service, mere; Cute, cut, fur, fury.

Bone, box, born, bore; Smoke, sock, sort, tore;

 

Exercise 26.Read the sentences and transcribe the underlined letters.

1. Kate [ ] has a cat [ ] , a car [ ] and a hare [ ]. 2. Pete [ ] is here [ ]. He [ ] has a pet [ ]. 3. Mike [ ] has a pig [ ], a bird [ ] and wire [ ]. 4. Rose [ ] has a dog [ ] in the store [ ]. 5. Susan [ ] has a bus [ ] and pure [ ] fur [ ].

Exercise 27.Cross out an odd word and explain your choice. For example: fate, late, back, mate. Back is an odd word because it is of type 2, the rest of them are of type 1.

Box, lost, cost, core; lime, lit, mile, file; bird, sir, fire, dirt;

Sack, mare, fare, scare; cut, bag, tub, cute; pet, fee, get, kept;

Wire, hip, fire, tired; cat, car, dark, mark; tick, trick, time, kick.

 

Exercise 28.Read the words and divide them into 4 columns depending on the type of reading.

Fee, grim, depart, happy, pony, handle, darn, got, mule, rudder, push, sink, mill, fuss, cure, party, close, snare, grave, bud, flirt, pep, plate, marble, pure, fume, stern, store, ton, pane, lobby, tyre, score, fun, care, sand, severe, track, arm, fake, front, six, himself, game, corn, blur, myth, star, bank, desire, pert, pretend, here.

Exercise 29.Read the following sentences. Pronounce correctly sound [æ].

The cat and the rat: the cat sat on a mat, the cat is fat, the rat sat in a hat, the cat had a nap on the mat, the rat had a nap in the hat. The cat ran into the flat.

The man and the lad. The man has a hat. The man has a bag. The fan is in the bag. The lad has a hat. The lad has a bat. The fat man has a black cat.

 

Exercise 30.Practice reading the following tongue-twister.

Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers.

A peck of pickled peppers Peter Piper picked.

If Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers,

Where's a peck of pickled peppers Peter Piper picked?

 

 

II. READING OF CONSONANTS

Letters Position Pronunciation Examples Exceptions
c Before e, i, y [ s ] Cell, decide  
Before o, a, u, consonants and at the end of a word [ k ] Cap, come, direct  
g Before e, i, y [ dʒ] Page, gin, gypsy Get [ get ], give [ giv ], girl [ g3:l ]
Before o, a, u, consonants and at the end of a word [ g ]   Game, big, green
In some French words [ ʒ ] Beige  
s Between vowels, after voiced consonant sounds and vowels at the end of words [ z ] Please, ties, pens  
In all other cases [ s ] Sit, student, lists  
x Before consonant sounds and at the end of a word [ ks ] Text, six  
Before stressed vowels [ gz ] Exam, exact  
At the beginning of a word [ z ] xerox  

Exercise 31.Write down the phonetic symbol and practice reading the words.

[ ] city, ice, pencil, peace, piece, scene, certainly, century, celebrate, circle, cycle;

c

[ ] cup, code, cool, crack, cute, concert, complete, carrot, copy, case, Coca-Cola;

[ ] stern, sip, site, sorry, seem, steamer, absorb, soap, soup, standard, mistake, maps;

s

[ ] cans, toys, bags, words, flies, eyes, please, season, disaster, misery, invisible;

[ ] cage, gym, ginger, giant, gentleman, magic, giraffe, imagine, geography, sponge;

g [ ] glad, goal, guilt, dig, girl, gate, glory, pregnant, ignore, greedy, group, fag, gamer;

[ ] beige, garage, massage;

[ ] fax, six, sex, exercise, mixer, fix, fox, text, pretext, explain, reflex, reflexive;

x [ ] exotic, example, exemplar, exalt, exact, exactly, exist, existing, exam;

[ ] xerox, xylophone, xylograph.

 

Exercise 32.Read and transcribe the words. Do not forget to put the stress mark if a word has two or more syllables.

Cell, start, scar, bridge, give, exist, big, ask, must, reason, imagine, next, practice, Greek, xerox, bees, list, exemplar, gown, civil, easy, same, cutting, exam, busy, beige, ox, certain, coast, age, garden, visit, says, xylose, style, icy, exactly, fox, send, explosion.

 

Exercise 33.Read the text. Find all the words with letters c, s, g, x. Explain their pronunciation.


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