IV. READING OF CONSONANT COMBINATIONS (part I)
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| Letter combination | Position | Pronunciation | Examples |
| sh | [ ʃ ] | She, English, shine | |
| ch | [ tʃ ] | Chess, chalk | |
| Mostly in words of Greek or Latin origin | [ k ] | Christmas, cholera Exception: machine [mə'ʃi: n] | |
| tch | [ tʃ ] | Watch, catch | |
| ck | [ k ] | Black, clock | |
| th | At the beginning of notional words and at the end of words | [ θ ] | Thick, myth |
| At the beginning of pronouns, functional words and between vowels | [ ð ] | This, the, bathe | |
| ng | [ ŋ ] | Long, strong | |
| nk | [ ŋk ] | Bank, thank | |
| wh | At the beginning of a word before vowels (except o) | [ w ] | What, why |
| Before o | [ h ] | Who, whose | |
| wr | At the beginning of a word | [ r ] | Write, wrong |
| wa | Before final consonant (except r) | [ wɔ ] | Want, wash |
| Before r | [ wɔ: ] | Warm, warn | |
| wor | Before consonants in stressed syllables | [ w3: ] | Work, world, word |
| ph | [ f ] | Photo, phrase | |
| kn | At the beginning of a word | [ n ] | Knee, knife |
Exercise 36.Write down the phonetic symbol and read the words.
ck[ ] kick, luck, picky, stick, cock, crack;
ng [ ] evening, spring, living, song, long, bang;
sh [ ] ship, fish, show, shiver, English, shift;
ph[ ] telephone, phase, physics, pharmacy, photograph, nymph;
[ ] cheek, reach, cherry, chain, teach, peach;
ch
[ ] Christmas, cholera, Christ, chord, chorus;
kn [ ] know, knew, kneel, knife, knives, knock;
tch [ ] catch, matcher, fetch, watch, stretch;
nk [ ] think, drink, bank, rank, sunk;
wr [ ] write, wrote, wrist, wry, wrong;
[ ] thick, thought, throat, thing, thorn, theme;
th
[ ] these, those, rather, other, weather, brother;
[ ] why, where, when, wheat, wheel, while;
wh
[ ] who, whose, whole, wholly, whom;
wa[ ] water, was, want, wander, warrior, watch;
wa[ ] war, warm, ward, toward, warn, warning;
wor [ ] world, word, work, worm, worth.
Exercise 37.Read and transcribe the words.
Match, reach, pick, sting, sheep, thank, feather, much, photo, theory, worship, thus, English, wrongly, waddle, whose, where, worker, shine, know, wry, Dutch, lock, why, another, that, physiology, waft, sink, knelt, worse.
Exercise 38.Read the following sentences paying attention to [ θ ], [ ð ] sounds.
1. There is the eight thirty train on Thursday. – Oh, that's fine!
2. I asked Smith to throw everything away.
3. His wise thought is very important for my curious theme.
4. This is a strange thing to think about that theory.
5. Don't give it another thought.
6. Who gave him these clothes? – I think Thomas did.
7. Whose are these things? – These are their things.
8. Take them out and clean them.
9. Does the noise bother them?
10. A thousand of thanks to you for that wise thought.
11. The seventh guest was late and the third one was very thirsty.
12. This was a stupid thing to meet them there and to tell them the truth.
Exercise 39.Read the following sentences. Underline the words with consonant combinations and transcribe them.
1. Did the children have lunch? 2. Which watch do you think I should buy? 3. Why do you eat so much cholesterol? 4. What channels does your teacher watch? 5. Philippe knows the truth. - You must be joking! 6. Be careful! Wasps and bees have stings. 7. She didn't like the theme. The work would be very hard to do. Besides, it is worthless. 8. Do you grow wheat here? 9. The hotel was horrible! There was no hot water, and they didn't have warm clothes. 10. Don't even think about it! I won't leave money at that bank. 11. Whose brother is this strong man? 12. Living in a small town is boring, isn't it?
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