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

Date: 2015-10-07; view: 466.

Ex.1. Practice reading the following words.

A. Reading drills

PRE-TEXT EXERCISES

aw [ɔ:]law, draw, saw, strawberries, raw, paw, pawl, bawl

ow [au]how, power, down, town,now, plow, mow, howl, scowl

ow[əu]low, show, slow,own,know, nowt

ou[ʌ]enough, country,double,touch, young, tough, rough

ea [i:]increase, cheaply, reach, peach, please, decrease, mean, each

ea [e]heavily, health, measure, pleasure, bread, breakfast, head

er [з:]refer, prefer, term,perfect, verb,service,certain

ur[з:]purchase, turn, hurt, burn,Thursday, nurse, curtain

c [s]society, choice, price, nice, produce, decision, force, once

c [k]consumer, cost, comprise, calm, conference, cooperative

a) words with the stress on the first syllable:

influence, merely, therefore, equal, basically, willingness, preference, weigh, heavily, household, income, maximize, possible, budget, impact, effort, concept, specify, quantity, purchase, demonstrate, upward, revenue, temporary, permanent, obviously, compromise, variable, calculus, relative, offset, volume, vertical, curve, substitute;

b) words with the stress on the second syllable:

society, allow, consume, conventional, determine, afford, demand, behavior, desire, ability, condition, affect, decision, utility, consider, significant, analogous, depending, amount, available, effective, relationship, efficient, forgo, consumption, increase, equipment, facilities, responding, impose, necessity, incentive;

c)polysyllabic words with the main and secondary stress:

economic, competition, microeconomics, combination, independently, represent, fundamental, correlation, allocation, opportunity, unexpected, equilibrium, individual, fluctuation, inelastic.