UNIT FOUR
Task 1. Listen to thefollowing words containing silent letters. Transcribe them. Practise their pronunciation. Write ten words exemplifying not phonetic English spelling. lamb answer half Island knee sign bomb bomber foreign know receipt write debt eight hour heir whole vehicle who ghost exhibition honest dishonest thought walk listen autumn high knife daughter comb palm psalm psychology Christmas bought
Task 2. Put one word in each space to make four compound nouns each time. Give their stress pattern. Practise their pronunciation. Offer ten written examples of your own. a) Paint --- Tooth --- Clothes --- Hair --- b) Washing --- Coffee --- Sewing --- Answering --- c) Black --- Notice --- Chess --- Score --- d) Wrapping --- Writing --- Note --- wall --- e) Flower --- Coffee --- Pepper --- Tea --- f) Book --- Suit --- Pencil --- Brief --- Task 3. Give stress patterns of the following composite verbs. Make up sentences with them. Practise their pronunciation. Offer ten composite verbs exemplifying their stress patterns. put off look after make up look at look for listen to take after wait for bring up put up take off get up wake up hurry up get off Task 4. Chose 10 words given below, transcribe them, give phonetic characteristics of the phonemes they consist of. Do it in writing: nickname youngster minor senior outlive infant brunette chestnut curly forehead delicate charming beard freckles pearly paunchy grasshopper stout beauty-spot cross-eyed hazel eyelashes jet-black Grecian aquiline piercing moustache famous glorious ghastly disgusting odious hideous attractive ingenious thoughtful Task 5. Listen to the following “content” words occurring together [Allen:6-7]. Take care to give them full stresses, space the stressed syllables in a regular rhythm. Prepare good reading of them. a) a èbook / a "good èbook / a "very . good èbook / a "very . good ètext-book / a "very . good . school ètext-book. b) a ècloth / a "piece of ècloth / a "piece of "white ècloth / a "large "piece of white ècloth / a "large "piece of pure . white ècloth. c) a èdoll / "Mary’s èdoll / "Mary’s . new èdoll / "Mary’s . new . china èdoll / "Mary’s two "new . china èdolls. d) a èboy / a "naughty èboy / a "very . naughty èboy / a "very . naughty . English èschoolboy. e) the èday / the "whole èday / "nearly the "whole èday / "very "nearly the whole èday / "very "nearly the whole . day èlong. f) a ècup / an "empty ècup / an "empty "cup and èsaucer / an "empty "cup and a broken èsaucer / "two . empty "cups and a broken èsaucer. g) a èlorry / a "heavy èlorry / a "heavy "lorry with a èload / a "heavy "lorry with a load of èèwood / a "heavy "lorry with a full . load of èèwood / a "heavy "lorry with a full . load of two . tons of èèwood. h) èwhisky / "Scotch èwhisky / a "bottle of "Scotch èwhisky / a "bottle of "genuine "Scotch èwhisky / "half a "bottle of genuine . Scotch èwhisky. i) a èclock / my "friend’s èclock / the "hands of my "friend’s èclock / the "metal "hands of my "friend’s èclock / / the "two . broken . metal "hands of my friend’s èclock. j) a èhat / a "straw èhat / a "dirty "straw èhat / a "very . dirty "straw èhat. Task 6. Listen to the following utterances [Allen:58-59]. They are exactly the same, except a different word is stressed in each utterance. Write them down. Underline the most prominent word(s) in them. Lay stresses and tone marks in the utterances you hear. Give tonograms.
Task 7. Read the fable given below. Divide the sentences into intonation groups, lay stresses and tone marks. Write down the words in the right column which are usually stressed, which are unstressed, as a rule, the words which are sometimes stressed defining the parts of speech they belong to. Practise reading the fable, record it.
Note: Short forms of parts of speech: adj. – adjective; adv. – adverb; art. – article; conj. – conjunction; part. – particle; n. – noun; v. – verb; prep. – preposition; pron. – pronoun.
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