Test II

1. Divide into groups and transcribe these words:

Worry, student, apricot, oppose, novel, after, magic, limit, visit, excuse, sentence, bypass, money, cinema, never, crying, stupid, numeral, uncle, Monday, war, river, panic, staff, hunting, transport.

primary alphabetical meaning	primary short meaning	secondary meaning

2. Find the odd word:

• palace, better, visit, apricot, palace

• stupid, trying, Friday, April, silly

• student, numeral, never, crying, being

• doing, hunting, uncle, cinema, magic

• panic, limit, novel, letter, fiddle.

3. Find disyllabic and polysyllabic words in which the vowel letter has its alphabetical meaning:

Our jobs, our possessions and even the areas in which we live become a matter of competition. We make out that our jobs and possessions are somehow better or more desirable than other people’s and we claim that our country, town or village is the best, the biggest or the most friendly or the most civilized in the world. Are we interested in proving our superiority, or is it that we take a sadistic delight in proving that some poor fellow being is inferior to us?

4. Transcribe these words:

Archery, point, cricket, victory, golf, runner-up, water polo, racket, rugby, ring, swimming, championship, spectator, figure-skating, fencing.

5. Transcribe and explain the rules of reading in the next words:

No Enemies.

by R. Mackey

You have no enemies, you say

Alas, my friend, the boast is poor.

He who has mingled in the fray of duty

That the brave endure

Must have made foes.

If you have none –

Small is the work that you have done.

You’ve hit no traitor on the hip,

You’ve dashed no cup from perjured lips

You’ve never turned the wrong to right,

You’ve been a coward in the fight.

4.Чтение ударных гласных в закрытом слоге Reading Vowels in Closed Syllables

#	Meaning	Context	Examples
1	Secondary	indicators of vowel secondary meanings	norm [ɔ:] all [ɔ:] fast [α:]
2	Primary long	indicators of vowel length	note [əυ] night [aı] old [əυ]
3	Primary short	absence of indicators	cat [æ] get [e]

VOWEL LETTERs + “R”

vowel	+ “r” + vowel + vowel + ”r” + vowel + ”l/n”	+ “r” + consonant + final “r”
Aa	[εə] Fair, fare	[α:] Farm, far
Ee	[ıə] Here, hero, neon	[3:] Herbal, her
Ii	[aıə] Liar, fire,giant	[3:] Firm, fir
Oo	[ :] Boar, more	[ :] North, for
Uu	[(j)υə] Pure, sure, fuel	[3:] Surf, fur
Yy	[aıə] tyrant	[3:] Byrd

Ex.1 Name the stressed sound of every line:

1. share, rare, care, compare, prepare, hare.

2. here, mere, sphere, material, serial, period.

3. fire, lyre, hire, tired, wire, satire.

4. pure, cure, lure, curious, during, secure.

5. more, shore, explore, before, store.

Ex.2 Divide the words into groups according to the sounds:

Air, bear, deer, square, tour, real, giant, your, near, ear, pair, oar, more, secure, cure, fire, lure, lyre, pure, satire, board, fair, hair, hear, dear, tire, fuel, sore, our, area, near, pier, hour, fire, mere, real, diamond, ear, fierce, science, vary, zero, theory, fuel, ore, millionaire, lair, mere, where, trial, work, earn, sergeant, warm, worm, heart, world, merry, persuade, nurse, harp, early, scarcely, clerk, form, target, learn, hurry, bird, persue, war, firm, circus, turn, farm, earth, word, market, girl, fir, bargain, turkey, mortar, swirl, sword, order, urgently, orchid, appear, observe, persue, surface, disregard, perm, sardines, require, depart, quarrel.

Ex.3 Read as quickly as possible:

1. Hares, rare hares, take care of rare hares; my parents take care of rare hares. My parents rarely take care of rare hares and canaries.

2. Football, more than football, basketballs more than football, adore basketball more than football, boys adore basketball more than football, tall boys adore basketball more than football. Almost all tall boys adore basketball more than football.

3. The theory, the theory of this experienced engineer is clear, the theory of this experienced engineer is really clear. My dear! The theory of this experienced engineer is really clear.

4. Near an ear, a nearer ear, a nearly eerie ear.

5. Cheers, dear! Cheers! Here’s to the bearded mountaineer!

6. Charming, large and charming, farms are large and charming, gardens and farms are large and charming. The parks, gardens and farms are large and charming.

7. A girl, a circus girl, Pearl is a circus girl, Pearl is a circus girl who works, Pearl is a circus girl who works with birds.

8. Her work, her work in workshop, her work in a dirty workshop, her work in a dirty workshop was the worst. Her work in a dirty workshop was the worst in the world.

Ex.4 Practice reading