II. Reading of vowel combinations

Exercise 25. Write down the phonetic symbols and practice reading the words.

ai / ay / ey [ ] main, pain, fail, aid, vain, train, saint, bay, nay, say, grey, they, obey;

ei [ ] receive, receiver, receipt, conceive, bein, ceil, ceiling, seize;

ie [ ] field, bield, wield, grief, grieve, kief, niece, mien, lief, believe;

ee [ ] fee, feet, meet, beef, bee, sleeve, fleet, greed, street;

eu / ew [ ] few, new, knew, stew, neutral, Europe;

au / aw [ ] August, cause, Paul, autumn, pause, saw, awful, crawl, laugh;

[ ] good, wood, foot, blood, book, took;

oo

[ ] moon, stool, food, flood, soon, hoot, broom;

oi / oy [ ] join, loin, foil, joy, coin, voice, rejoice;

air [ ] air, chair, fair, hair, pair;

oor [ ] boor, moor, poor;

eer, ear [ ] beer, cheer, queer, sheer, dear, clear;

[ ] pleasant, health, spread, wealth, bread, breath, weapon, dreamt, great;

ea

[ ] read, lead, weak, breathe, sea, dream, please, ease, weak, disease, steak;

[ ] out, loud, bout, account, foul, house, blouse, round, around;

ou

[ ] touch, cousin, rough, tough;

[ ] our, flour, sour, sour cream;

our

[ ] your, four, source, course, pour, tour;

[ ] cow, owl, row, fowl, allow, town, gown, frown;

ow

[ ] flow, yellow, blow, grow, row, rainbow, widow, willow, window.

Exercise 26. Read and transcribe the words.

Cook, bee, mean, wool, street, pea, obtain, chair, applaud, soon, May, awful, health, spoon, seat, fault, stood, follow, blood, air, aunt, news, coin, food, seize, tree, great, allow, leader, mew, grain, zoo, fee, Europe, defeat, boot, power, grieve, hook, steel, brain, found.

Exercise 28. Read the text. Find the words with vowel combinations and transcribe them.