Ex.2. Read the words in the groups below. Pay attention to the word stress.

Date: 2015-10-07; view: 430.

Ex.1. Practice reading the following words.

A. Reading drills

PRE-TEXT EXERCISES

LEAD-IN

1. Would you like to own your own business? Why or why not?

2. Would you prefer to buy an existing business or start one yourself?

3. What product or service would you provide?

4. Where would you want to locate the business and for what reason?

5. How would you recruit employees?

y/i [aɪ] rye, fly, sky, dry, try, ply, dye, by-product, type, byte, cycle; lifestyle, item, size, dive, sizable

[aɪ]falsify, intensify, notify, signify, specify

[ɪ] myth, symbol, system, syndicate, Sydney

[ɪ]security, property, economically, secondary, duty, baby, lady, study, noisy, lobby, pony, sorry, lorry, sym'phonic

[aiə] tyre, tire, hire, fire

y[j] yes, yet, you, yell, yelp, yield, youthful, yard, yawn

u[ju:] use, mule, tune, due, suit

u[ʌ] but, must, run, sun, up

u[u:] rule, true, fruit, blue, flu

[ɔ]–[ʌ] not – nut, boss – bus, dock – duck, lock – luck, sock - suck

Rhyme, single, rhythm, rivalry, yawn, risky, syllable, sight, historically, multiply, mind, pretty, think, nymph, yesterday, child, pyjamas, memory, kind, wish, analytic, behind, picture, category, yucca, desire, light, exactly, king, candy, miner, syndicate, typist, hymn, rice, myself, risk, pyramid, nylon, mineral, line, hydrant.

a) words with the stress on the first syllable:

access, acre, actual, balance, benefit, broker, capital, dwelling, enterprise, forecast, hectare, tangible, labour, luxury, maintenance, management, owner, ownership, parking, property, suburbs, quality, quantity, scarce, scarcity, service, urban, utilize;

b) words with the stress on the second syllable:

accumulate, accomplishment, consumer, commodity, delivery, environment, estate, inherit, inheritance, intangible, location, necessity, securities, utility;

c) polysyllabic words with the main and secondary stress:

acquisition, competition, exploitation, externalities, information,entrepreneur, entrepreneurial, entrepreneurship, privatization, profitability, relocate, substitution, telecommunication, termination, urbanization,undercapitalization, utilization.