Which of the given examples illustrate: a) high, mid, open and b) front, mixed, back oppositions?

bead – bed – bad deed – dead – dad

cab – curb – cub tan – turn – ton

bad – bird – bud hat – hurt – hut

Контрольная работа № 4

Classify these word combinations accenting to the nature of modification within the group or at the end of it (a) a loss of plosion, (b) an alveolar replaced by a dental, (c) the light and dark /l/.

Will you read louder, will you please, sit down, read text 1, write down, next time, repeat the noun, at the blackboard, clean the board, glad to see you, what can I do, like to have it, on the seventh, round the city, on this, what country, good time, tea and cake, many people, don’t like, just thirsty, mashed potatoes, go to eat, that pub, will you tell me, silk dress, hit nose.

Transcribe and read the passages. Give their articulatory characteristics.

A. 1. People seem to like it. 2. They help by sweeping and cleaning the rooms. 3.That doesn’t mean sleeping and eating in tents. 4. The hotel at the seaside will cost you at least thirty pounds a week.

B. 1. “What is it?” I asked him. 2. He looked a sick and miserable boy. 3. He left different medicines with instructions for giving them. 4. The medicine will bring down the fever.

Describe the allophonic differences of the vowel phonemes in the foollwing words.

Easily, middle, pence, natural, dancing, clock, bore, would, hoof, nothing, workers, summer.

Transcribe these words. Use them as examples to explain the rules for reading the letters in bold type which represent the diphthongs.

South, sincerely, strangely, facilitated, noticeable, winding, poor, following, realize, motor, heighten, potatoes, over night, theater, jurist, Mary, Michael Angelo, Jane Eyre, enjoyment, typhoid, Europe, dour.

Transcribe these words. Present the rules for reading the vowel phonemes in bold. Single out the words which are exceptions from the rules.

Holidays, Maria, forward, sightseeing, mouth, comfort, café, billiards, workers, Crusoe, Sherlock, Mathew, Earnest, forehead, pneumonia, detached, bothers, head, varnished, Priestley, puzzling, pieces, asylum, record, Maugham, Friday, woodland, newspaper, taxis, unbelievable, purpose, unfortunately, awful, year, hotel, awkward, coughing, employee.

Контрольная работа № 5

Read the pairs of words, describe the mechanism of voiceless fortis, voiced lenis difference, which is functional here.

plight – blight try – dry crate – great

found – bound tune – dune piece – bees

penny – Benny park – bark twelve – dwell

Read the word combinations below. Observe and explain the mechanism of articulation of two plosionless stops in.

help Peter – сноп пшеницы

club building – клуб был полон

at times – оттуда

good day – под домом

black coffee – как когда

What mechanism is affected by assimilation in the pronunciation of /r/ in the words “string”, “strike”, of /m/ in the words “smell”, “smoke” or /j/ in the words “student”, “suit”?

Transcribe these words and word combinations. Read them. Explain possible mistakes in the close CC transitions.

Anecdote, birthday, blackboard, medicine, this book, let’s go, what’s the time, sixth, his thing, pass them, is that, fifths, Smith’s there, soothes them, in the.

Give your own examples to illustrate different cases of elision.

Контрольная работа № 6

Divide these words into monographs.

Face, facing, nicer, choicest, racy, princess, age, raging, larger, urgent, bulgy, burgess, raged, changeling, outrageous, faced, nicely, hugely, engagement, changeable.

Divide these words into letters. Transcribe them to illustrate different alphabetic references.

Curing, fires, cheerless, cured, occurred, stirring, pining, pined, worker, working, worked, thoroughly, culture, nation, city, redder, cheering.

Transcribe these words. Show the phonemic reference of digraphs and polygraphs.

Aid, fairy, said, fountain, portrait, villain, straight, August, sauce, laugh, authority, taught, east, tea, delay, beige, threepence, leopard, people, freight, weigh.

Give sentences with the contrast homophones.

hide – I’d hall – all

hitches – itches harmful – armful

hair – heir handy – Andy

hedge – edge unharmed – unarmed

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