Ex.3. Read the words in the group below. Pay attention to the word stress.

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Ex.2. Read the following words. The underlined letters are silent.

A. Reading drills

PRE-TEXT EXERCISES

LEAD-IN

1. What is the most typical problem faced by every society?

2. Why cannot people have everything they want?

3. Who usually allocates resources in the country?

4. How can the economic system influence our life?

Ex.1. Practice reading the following words:

ch [k] mechanism, mechanic, mechanization, technique, technical (в словах, запозичених з грецькоїмови)

ph [f]phrase, phase, photograph, telephone, phonetics (в словах, запозичених з грецькоїмови)

er, ir, ur [з:] refer, prefer, sir, girl, term, perfect, third, merger, university, burn, nurse, curse

ture [ʧə]structure, picture, venture, gesture, mixture, lecture, nature

sure[ʒә]measure,pleasure, leisure

Bomb, comb, lamb, debt, write, know, knife, doubt, receipt, psychology.

a) words with the stress on the first syllable:

several, scarcity, allocate, previously, Asia, clothing, value, major, centrally, formulate, publicly, industries, socialism, socialist, Sweden, power, operate, ownership, relevant, enterprise, government, centralized,social, ownership;

b) words with the stress on the second syllable:

requires, essential, dilemma,referred,efficiently, appearance, variety, societies, command,allow, consumer, percent, consensus, municipal;

c) polysyllabic words with the main and secondary stress:

satisfactorily, opportunity, distribution, independently, intermingled, intervention, environmentalism.