Ex.9.9 Sort out the words into columns according to the reading of consonant clusters.

Machinery, scheme, scythe, child, Thames, weather, chef, Christmas, Thompson, chick, than, chic, chord, chalice, cliché, Chaos, neither, thyme, thrift, cheek, though, thorn, thaw, thief.

Ex. 9.10 Find a way from start to finish. You may pass a square only if the word in it has the sound [θ]. You can move horizontally of vertically.

Start

north	northern	either	weather	breathe	those
south	bath	bathe	thought	breath	youth
southern	third	their	through	though	thumb
Thailand	cloth	path	fifth	with	worth
month	clothes	these	brother	that	teeth
throw	thing	author	other	they	wealth

Finish

Ex. 9.11 Complete this rhyme using words from the box. Then listen and check (, track 13)

Earth, another, Heather, together, brother, birth, neither, either, mothers, brothers

Arthur had a brother

And he didn’t want another.

And of the brothers, ______

Wanted sisters _____.

The last thing on this_____

They wanted was a _____.

So Arthur’s mother _____

Got them both _____,

And told them all good _____

Should learn to share their _____.

Ex. 9.12 Listen and circle the word you hear (, track 14)

1. Youth or use? There’s no youth\use talking about that.

2. Thought or taught? I don’t know what she thought\taught.

3. Free or three? Free\Three refills with each packet!

4. Closed or clothed? They weren’t fully closed\clothed.

5. Breeding or breathing? They’ve stopped breeding\breathing.

6. These are or visa? These are\Visa problems we can deal with later.

Ex. 9.13 Practice reading the following words observing the rules of reading of consonant clusters:

a) Sheep, fish, Lewisham, mishap, ghost, rough, high, eight, daughter, Ghana, ghastly, ghee, gherkin, ghetto, ghillie, ghoul, Ghana, ghee, gharry, ghoulish, shoulder, shovel, show off, shrewd, shrink, Zhirinovsky, Zhukov, Zhivago, Zhejiang, Zhang, Zhuhai, photograph, shepherd, Stephen, Clapham, nephew, cheap, chair, charm, scheme, school, ache, cholesterol, chemistry, machinery, clef, sandwich, Charles, charter, charka, charivari, chateau, chauffeur, cheekbone, Chaucer, chauvinism, Chihuahua, chloral, choir, cholera, cholinesterase, pharmacology, pharyngeal, phoneme, phonetic, physiotherapy, phthisis, phylum

b) Wristband, knout, wryneck, Khachaturian, wreathe, Khan, Khyber, khanate, pneumothorax, Knox, knuckle, wrongheaded, Khrushchev, knurl, knockdown.

Ex. 9.14 Read the proverbs; explain the reading of consonant clusters:

Th e to ng ue is not steel, yet it c ut s.

Ex c eption prove sth e rule.

Wh ere th e sh oe pin ch es.

Don’t cross th e brid g e till you get to it.

Ph ysi c ian s mend or end us.

Nei th er fi sh nor fle sh.

A bird in th e hand is wor th two in the bu sh.

A wat ch ed pot never boil s.

A drown ing man will cat ch at a straw.

Little knowled g e is a dan g erous th i ng.

Ex. 9.15 Practice reading the following homophones:

Homophones are words (or combinations of words)

ü which sound the same, but are spelled differently and have different meanings: e.g. meet and meat, seen and scene.

ü There are some examples of one word sounding like a combination of words: e.g. heed and he’d.

ü Sometimes three words (or combinations of words) sound exactly the same: e.g. I’ll, isle and aisle.

Ø scent – a distinctive smell, sent – the past tense of send

Ø scene – the place where an event takes place, seen – the past tense of see

Ø site – a piece of land, cite – to quote

Ø session – the meeting of a court, cession – the act of ceding

Ø scull – rowing motion, skull – head bone

Ø sic – to set upon, sick - ill

Ø sink – to submerge, synch – together in time

Ø soared – to have sailed through the air, sword – long fighting blade

Ø sucker – one who sucks, succor – relief

Ø plum – purple fruit, plumb – straight up and down

Ø profit – money earned, prophet – seer

Ø bark – outer sheath of a tree, barque – square-rigged sailing ship

Ø bloc – an alliance, block – square object

Ø bold – brave, bowled – knocked over

Ø boll – round seed pod, bowl – dish

Ø borough – township, burrow – dig into the ground

Ø bough – tree branch, bow – front of a ship, respectful bend

Ø burger – meat sandwich, burgher – merchant

Ø but – excepting, butt – the thick end

Ex. 9.16

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