Ex. 5.6 Pick out the odd word.

Example:

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1. monkey — donkey — whiskey — key

2. feudal — few — sew — queue

3. cook – look – pound – could

4. foot — good — food — cook

5. round — house — ounce — trouble

6. could — would — mould — should

7. seize — receive — deictic – ceiling

8. toilet – tortoise – boycott – buoy

9. joy –oily –voyage – connoisseur

10. annoy – choice – they –joy – poison

11. pear — swear — near — bear

12. door – floor – start – small

13. cream — head — leave — fleet

14. purple – thirsty – journey – there

15. ooze—wood—kangaroo—booze

16. courage — soul — trouble — nourish

17. plaintiff — raider — plaintive — plaid

18. bread – reads – pence – very

19. work – third – person – hair

20. size – grey – life – eye

21. buy – like – rich – kind

22. wear – ear - hear – nearly

23. earn – third – where – dirty

Ex. 5.7 Give 2 examples to each variant of pronunciation of the given digraph.

[ əυ ] [ aυ ]

[ u: ]

OU [ Λ ]

[ ɔ: ]

[ Ŋ ]

Ex. 5.8 Underline the words in which the vowel combinations are read according to the basic rule:

Cream, bleed, leave, fleet, death, dean, daily, head, rouge, great, tie, key, few, ceiling, eal, thief, plain.

Oar, fair, fuel, fare, ore, type, ear, prior, giant, pure, fire, here, trial, real.

May, oak, coin, connoisseur, heaven, broad, seize, agree, soar, aid, via, fiery, idiot, lie, peer, fear, lean, Sunday, says, formulae, main, leisure, sea, eagle, receive, triumph, foam, aegis, sieve, needle, people, leopard, die, Leicester, pseudonym, ceiling, holiday, read, clear.

Reading of digraphs “oo”, “ou” in homographes:

slough – сброшенная кожа змеи, забытая привычка; уныние, депрессия, болото.

bouse – выпивка, пьянство; тянуть, спасти.

wound – рана; крутиться, извиваться (past of wind)

Ex. 5.9 Translate the sentences and transcribe the underlined words:

1. When I was going through the slough, I saw a slough.

2. Sometimes your slough can remind about itself. We went to the forest and found a slough there.

3. A man was injured, he had a wound. A snake wound in the cage.

4. While he was wounding, somebody wounded him.

5. There were so many bouses on his birthday.

6. Bouse is the most actual problem nowadays. Among the sea terms you can find the word “ to bouse ”.

Ex. 5.10

Place the following words in the grids according to their vowel sound.

Rich\ curl\ death\ month\ shone\ lawn\ cart\ suit\ breathe\ flashed\ loom\ herd\ still\ earn\ hemmed\ poured\ torn\ scene\ cruise\ floor\ dock\ just\ would\ don\ sword\ hoop\ banned\ rang\ bin\ love\ hat\ bird\ stabbed\ hood\ farm\ ought\ ridge\ ton\ cloth\ chalk\ hoot\ son\ link\ next\ calm\ germ\ hymn\ cab\ wood\ breath\ creep\ itch\ blood\ cough\ should\ could\ black\ said\ pearl\ edge\ shopped\ eve\ barred\ soup\ leaf\ bard\ begged

Short vowel sounds

pit [pIt]	pat[pæt]	pet[pet]	putt[pʌt]	pot[pɒt]	put [pυt]

Long vowel sounds

peat [pi:t]	pert[pз:t]	part[pɑ:t]	port[pɔ:t]	boot[pu:t]

Ex. 5.11

a) Pronounce the words:

foot – booth – flood

booklet – coop – hook

hoof – footer – looter

wooed – wood – moorings

taproom – sooty – woof

doubt – honorable – tough

neighbour – drought – coup

should – soup – pouring

thought – amount – loaches

aloud – louver – brooch

colourist – pounding – coulter

b) Choose the right variant:

[u:] a) wood, b) foolish, c) country

[Λ] a) ooze, b) flood, c) boot

[υ:] a) good, b) brooch, c) floor

[əυ] a) nourish, b) mould, c) koumiss

[Λ] a) cough, b) tough, c) soup

[u:] a) douche, b) bounce, c) sound

c) Find the odd word:

1. plait, plaid, said, aiglet

2. heir, seize, ceiling, inveigle

3. Leicester, either, height, seismograph

4. break, great, steak, bread

5. tear, heart, fear, tear

Ex. 5.12 Give some examples on each of these combinations, but all of them should denote the sound [ei]:

Ai ei

[ei]

Ay ey

Ex. 5.13 Divide the words into columns:

[i:]	[e]	[aiə]	[I]

Eel, bread, aegis, seize, leisure, said, quay, says, diet, key, monkey, ion, leopard, formulae, fiery, sweat, agree, giant, biscuit, lion, Leonard, connoisseur, violate, breath, diamond, auntie, pioneer, species, biological, people, jeopardy, piece, triumph, feather, via, friend, achieve, dialogue, mischief, diadem, build.

Ex. 5.14 Pronounce the following pairs of words and write down the sounds:

[ ] – [ ]:

daughter – Dottie

caution – coughing

naughty – novice

[ ] – [ ]:

joined – John

oyster – ostrich

soiled – solid

[ ] – [ ]:

tomb – tour

view – viewer

queue – cure

[ ] – [ ]:

cleaning – clearly

ease – ears

[ ] – [ ]:

beer – bear

teary – dairy

peer –pair

[ ] – [ ]:

climb – cloud

finder – founder

dry – drought

Ex. 5.15 Insert the suitable word:

fair/fare, buy/bye, waist/waste, flower/flour

1. This man in black is...

2. When you get on bus you have to pay...

3. My wife is satisfied with her good...

4. It is necessary to say “Good...” when you leave home.

5. It is a... of time.

6. I am proud of my...

7. We can’t bake a cake without...

8. The girl has painted a...

Ex. 5.16 Find a way from start to finish. You may pass a square only if the word in it has the sound [ aυ ]. You can move horizontally or vertically only.

START

house	sound	group	about	mouth	cow
soup	out	brown	mouse	bought	south
could	couple	grow	low	would	cloud
know	snow	touch	ought	down	count
thought	should	slow	blow	pound	young
soul	country	though	throw	town	round

FINISH

Ex. 5.17 Group the words below according to the pronunciation of the underlined letter(s). Compare the meanings of single vowels and vowel combinations. What principle of reading vowel digraphs do the given words illustrate?

1. [e] 2. [eı] 3. [I]

4. [i:] 5. [aı] 6. [əυ]

7. [ɒ] 8. [ ı] 9. [u:]

Antennae, beg, beige, believe, brooch, bruise, boy, buy, by, coin, die, dine, either, got, in, key, made, maiden, needle, neutral, obey, pay, people, receive, seat, she, shoulder, soap, sold, soup, steak, tune, true.

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