V. READING OF CONSONANT COMBINATIONS (part 1)

Date: 2015-10-07; view: 496.

Exercise 45.Write down the phonetic symbol and practice reading the words.

sh [ ] ship, sheep, shop, shift, show, shiver, fish, wish, slash, English;

[ ] chick, cheek, chop, cherry, chain, reach, teach, peach;

ch

[ ] Christmas, cholera, Christ, chord, chorus;

tch[ ] catch, matcher, fetch, watch, stretch;

ck[ ] kick, luck, sick, sock, lock, pick, picky, stick, clock, crack;

[ ] song, sing – sang – sung, long, bang, fang, young, morning, evening, spring,

ng living;

[ ] finger, language, English, younger, longer, cringle;

nk [ ] think, drink, bank, rank, sunk, uncle, ankle, thanks, sink – sank - sunk;

ph[ ] telephone, phase, phrase, physics, pharmacy, photo, photograph, nymph, typhoon;

kn [ ] know – knew - known, knee, kneel, knife, knives, knock;

mb [ ] bomb, bomber, tomb, comb, thumb, limb, lamb, climb, climber;

bt [ ] doubt, undoubtedly, debt;

Exercise 46.Read and transcribe the words. Do not forget to put the stress mark if a word has two or more syllables.

Match, climb, reach, pick, sting, sheep, much, debt, photo, English, uncle, tomb, shine, phase, mingle, known, climber, Dutch, lock, charge, physiology, photo, comb, single, undoubtedly, sink, knelt, stink, phone, lamb.

Exercise 47.Practice reading the following tongue-twister. Explain the reading of the letters in bold.

She sells sea shells on the sea shore;

The shells that she sells are sea shells I'm sure.