Type 2 – a vowel in a closed syllable
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A closed syllable is a syllable which ends in a consonant, for example: pea-nut. According to the 2nd type of reading the English vowels are pronounced in the following way:
a [æ]flag o [ɔ]doll ihip
[ ɪ ]
e [ e ]bed u [ʌ]bus ymyth
NOTES:
1.In some words letter ‘u' ispronounced [ u ], for example: pull, push, bull, full, etc.
3.Very often letter‘o' before n, m, v, th is pronounced [ ʌ ] as in love, mother, etc.
4.In the words ending in –nd , - ld vowels are pronounced according to the 1st type as in child, kind, mild, etc.
Exercise 6.Read the words.
a[ æ ]has,cat,plan, man, ham, pants, grab, fat, flat, black, mad, that, tram, Jack;
e[ e ]men, bet, belt, set, get, met, melt, pet, rest, let, send, lend, mend, bed;
o[ ɔ ]dog, fog, fox, box, ox, got, hot, pot, lost, golf, frog, drop, sock, lock;
u[ ʌ ] bus, cup, cut, run, mud, muddy, dull, puff, must, fun, hunt, hunter, plug, trust;
i [ ɪ ] fill, did, miss, pick, till, split, stick, hit, mix, fix, milk, brick, kilt, kill, trick;
y [ ɪ ] gym, myth, cyst, lynx, system, symbol, gypsy;
o[ ʌ ] son, ton, won, done, none, front, month, money, honey, tongue, come, some, company, stomach, love, dove, above, glove, mother, brother, other, another, nothing.
Exercise 7.Read and transcribe the words.
Drag, mug, lamp, risk, butter, top, red, silk, help, luck, nod, hand, hip, event, crack, tell, clock, jog, under, flag, settle, win, fund, suffer, kiss, net, nanny, grumble, tent, insist, stuck.
Exercise 8.Read the words and divide them into 2 columns depending on the type of reading.
Lake, sip, mild, rest, risk, later, attack, song, nice, tax, grab, baby, construct, me, tape, mile, bet, bucket, fist, golf, nose, date, gang, resist, grace, bug, sane, chess, frost, dad.
Exercise 9.Read the words and underline those with the indicated sounds.
[ æ ] black, made, fat, fate, scat, tone, race, tag.
[ ʌ ] busy, boy, bus, butter, tube, but, music, cut, fun, honey.
[ ɔ ] pot, block, ton, nod, doggie, coal, frost.
[ əu ] dog, pony, knock, sock, lone, drop, problem, nosy.
[ e ] let, time, be, see, get, set, live, tock, spend, spent.
Exercise 10.Read the following words, phrases and sentences properly and quickly. Pronounce correctly and distinctly sound [ æ ].
That's flat, and that's that. That's cat and that's mat. That's fat and that's black. Sam's acting the ass. Fancy that! He that hatches matches hatches catches.
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 11.Practice reading the words in pairs.
[ e ] - [ æ ] [ i ] - [ i: ]
men - man slip - sleep
ten - tan fill - feel
led - lad lick - leak
pen - pan did - deed
pet - pat fit - feet
send - sand mill - meal
bed - bad big - beak
bend - band sit - seed
met - mat ship - sheep
said - sad chip - cheap
Type 3 – a vowel + r (+a consonant)
The vowels before r are pronounced in the following way:
a [ a : ]part epert
i ( y ) [ 3 : ]girl
o [ɔ: ]sort uburn
Exercise 12.Read the words.
a [ a : ] ñar, bar, star, far, farm, part, scar, lard, bark, park, starve, target, arm, army;
o [ɔ: ] or, nor, for, port, sort, form, order, cord, pork, corn, short, fork, torn;
e [ 3 : ] her, serve, germ, alert, stern, term, verse, herb, refer, prefer;
i / y [ 3 : ]sir, girl, firm, first, bird, birth, birthday, third, thirty, thirsty, dirt, dirty, Byrd;
u [ 3: ] fur, turn, hurt, burst, burn, burnt, surf, curl, curly, curtain, purse, murder.
Exercise 13.Read and transcribe the words.
Dark, fork, first, report, starve, serf, thirsty, herb, Byrd, skirt, corn, torn, dirt, murder, girl, her, curtain, curl, large, terms, support, birds, target, army, birthday, party, hurt, purpose, short, shirt, farm, concern.
Exercise 14.Read the text properly and quickly. Find the words which are pronounced according to the 3rd type of reading and transcribe them.
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