Review exercises

Exercise 23. Review 4 types of reading of English vowels and complete the table below.

Review table of 4 types of reading

Exercise 24. Read the words and write down the phonetic symbol for underlined letters. Define the type of reading of each column.

V a n [ ] h a re [ ] bl a de [ ] c a r [ ]

E bb [ ] h e re [ ] b e e [ ] p e rfume [ ]

S i lly [ ] t i red [ ] f i ne, fl y [ ] b i rd [ ]

D o ll [ ] st o re [ ] r o pe [ ] f o rk [ ]

St u ff [ ] p u re [ ] t u be [ ] t u rkey [ ]

Exercise 22. Read and transcribe the words. Do not forget to put the stress mark if a word has two or more syllables.

Fate, fat, far, fare; Tube, tub, turn, cure; Late, flat, lark, fare;

File, fill, first, fire: Style, gypsy, Byrd, tyre; Side, disc, circle, fired;

Peter, pet, pert, here; Eve, check, service, mere; Cute, cut, fur, fury.

Bone, box, born, bore; Smoke, cock, sort, tore;

Exercise 23. Read the sentences and transcribe the underlined letters.

1. K a te [ ] h a s [ ] a c a t [ ], a c a r [ ] a nd [ ] a h a re [ ]. 2. P e te [ ] is h e re [ ]. H e [ ] has a p e t [ ]. 3. M i ke [ ] has a p i g [ ], a b i rd [ ] and w i re [ ]. 4. R o se [ ] has a d o g [ ] in the st o re [ ]. 5. S u san [ ] has a b u s [ ] and p u re [ ] f u r [ ].

Exercise 24. Cross out an odd word and explain your choice. For example: fate, late, back, mate. The 3^rd word is of type 3, the rest of them are of type 1.

Box, lost, cost, core; lime, lit, mile, file; bird, sir, fire, dirt;

Sack, mare, fare, scare; cut, bag, tub, cute; pet, fee, get, kept;

Wire, hip, fire, tired; cat, car, dark, mark; tick, trick, time, kick.

Exercise 25. Read the words and divide them into 4 columns depending on the type of reading.

Fee, grim, depart, happy, pony, handle, darn, got, mule, rudder, push, sink, mill, fuss, cure, party, close, snare, grave, bud, flirt, pep, plate, marble, pure, fume, stern, store, ton, pane, lobby, tyre, score, fun, care, sand, severe, track, arm, fake, front, six, hims e lf, game, corn, blur, myth, star, bank, des i re, pert, pret e nd, here.

Exercise 26. Read the following sentences properly and quickly. Pronounce correctly sound [æ ].

The cat and the rat: the cat sat on a mat, the cat is fat, the rat sat in a hat, the cat had a nap on the mat, the rat had a nap in the hat. The cat ran into the flat.

The man and the lad. The man has a hat. The man has a bag. The fan is in the bag. The lad has a hat. The lad has a bat. The fat man has a black cat.

Exercise 27. Practice reading the following tongue-twister quickly and distinctly. Define the type of reading of the words in it.

Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers.

A peck of pickled peppers Peter Piper picked.

If Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers,

Where’s a peck of pickled peppers Peter Piper picked?