8. Правила чтения гласных с согласными. Reading of combinations of vowels with consonants.

Letter combination	sound	Examples
O + ld I+ld I+nd Igh A+consonants A+ll Al+k W+a	[əu] [ai] [ai] [ai] [a:] [o:] [o:] [o]	Cold, gold Wild, child Kind, find High, night Class, past, plant All, ball, wall Talk, walk, chalk Want, was

Ex.1 Read the following words containing combination of vowels and consonants:

[əυ] cold, fold, hold, bold, gold, told, sold;

[aı] wild, mild, child,;

[aı] kind, mind, find, bind, blind, rind.

[a:] class, fast, ask, plant, bath, pass, past, task, grant, path, glass, cast, bask, can’t, [a:] father, grass, vast, basket, shan’t, brass, mask, branch.

[ɔ:] all, small, ball, fall, call, stall, tall, wall.

[o] was, wash, what, want, watch, quality;

[ɔ:] war, warn, warm, quarter, warship, quart;[ʌ], [υ] won, wolf, wonder, woman;

[з:] work, word, world, worm.

[aυ] now, how, cow, down, town, clown, brown, crowd, crown, flower, power, tower;

[əυ] row, own, slow, grow, snow, glow, show, throw, know

Ex. 2 (from Test your pronunciation Unit 2, disc)

Listen to the recording and decide which names you hear.

Example: I’ve invited ____Pete___ to join us.

a) Pete b) Peter c) Pet

1. I’ve just been talking to __________________.

a) Jan Lipman b) Jane Lipman c) Jane Leapman d) Jan Leapman

2. I’ve just got a letter from __________________.

a) Eryl b) Meryl

3. Can I speak to _____________, please?

a) Mick Wilson b) Mike Wilson c) Mack Wilson d) Mark Wilson

4. I haven’t seen ____________ for ages.

a) Mary b) Marie

5. Could you give this to __________, please?

a) Lucille b) Lucy

6. I think that’s ___________ over there.

a) Peter Bales b) Peter Vales c)Pete Bales d) Pete Vales

7. Have you met _________________?

a) Barbara Eaton b) Barbara Heaton c) Barbie Eaton d) Barbie Heaton

8. I’ve invited _______________ as well.

a) Joe Newman b) Joan Newman

9. That’s _________________, I think.

a) Sir Ralph b) Sir Alf

10. I think that’s ____________over there.

a) Sue Weedon b) Sue Eden

11. Is ___________ here today?

a) Gert b) Curt

12. I’m going with ___________ to the cinema.

a) Alec b) Alex

13. Have you seen ____________ recently?

a) Rita b) Lita

14. I hear that ___________has got a new job.

a) Bet b) Beth c) Betty d) Bess

15. Isn’t that ________over there?

a) Carl b) Carla

Ex. 3 (from Test your pronunciation Unit 4, disc)

Look at and listen to these pairs of words.

1. Peter and pepper. These start with the same consonant sound [p], but the following vowel sound is different: [pi:tə], [pepə].

2. Peter and pizza. These start with the same three sounds: [pi:tə] and [pi:tsə].

Now read the following pairs of words. How many identical sounds do they start with? Listen to the recording to check how they are pronounced.

Examples:

Peter/ pepper – 1 Peter/pizza – 3

1. Kate \ cake __ 9. Penny \ pizza __

2. Charles \ chocolate ___ 10. Margery \margarine ___

3. Oliver \ olives ___ 11. Barbara \ bananas ___

4. Tom \ tomatoes ___ 12. Sam \ salmon ___

5. Susan \ sugar ___ 13. Colin \ cola ___

6. Salome \ salami ___ 14. Brenda \ bread ___

7. Pat \ pasta ___ 15. Jim \ gin ___

8. Patty \ pastry ___ 16. Raymond \ radishes ___

Ex. 4 (from Test your pronunciation Unit 5, disc)

A In each line, identify the word that has a different first consonant sound. Read them first, then listen to the recording to check.

B In each line, identify the word that has a different final consonant sound. Then listen to the recording to check.

1							picked	rubbed	fact	bought
2							dragged	road	dropped	hide
3							cough	safe	roof	of
4							packs	ox	begs	pats
5							lump	chasm	limb	name
	6	sock	music	arch	ache

Ex. 5 Put the following words into the correct column according to the pronunciation of”-ough”

[ɔ] (6 words)	[Λf] (3words)	[ɒf] (2 words)	[u:] (1 word)	[ə] (2 words)	[əʊ] (2 words)	[aʊ] (3 words)