III. Test exercise on transcription. Transcribe the following words according to the reading rules:

Напишите транскрипцию следующих слов, используя правила чтения.

Width, myth, lute, eve, bridge, child, teach, cure, few, jumper, bee, pure, hair, sa tire, car, rare, wire, ink, here, dare, burn, tester, a loud, Dutch, far, hire, parents, bold, darling, parrot, a ware, more, large, kind, square, pan, singing, verb, nurse, number, cry, six, stir, sane, charm, black, turn, wage, talk, junk, pine, huge, ignorant.

IV. Test exercise for good reading:

Упражнение для контрольного чтения.

Peace, pace; piece, pie; pale, pail; pay, pair, pare; peel, peer, pond, pound; bee, beer; boot, boat, board; ball, bawl, bowl, boil; me, met, meet, mete, mere; fair, fare, far; fear; fire, fir, fur, few; foot; foam; sow, saw; soap, soar, sore; tea, tear, tired, type, tune; tone, torn, tower, toy; deep, deer; Dawn, down; net, neat, near, need, niece; law, low, lie, line; sheep, chip, chirp, cheer, chief; shape, chap, share; car, care, cure, curl, coal, cool; hate, heat, hat, hair, hire, hear, here, her, horn, haul, hull, hurl, how, hue, hew; wave, way, wire, wore, work.

V. The text for good reading and learning by heart:

Текст для контрольного чтения и заучивания наизусть.

My friend Boris.

I have a friend. His name is Boris Smirnov. He is thirty-two years old. He is a lawyer.

Boris is married. He has a family. He has a wife and a daughter. Boris has no son. He also has a mother but he has no father. His father is dead. His mother is old. She is sixty-five years old. She is a pensioner.

Boris has a wife. Her name is Olga. She is a nice young woman of twenty-seven. Olga is a student at our institute. She is a final-year student. Olga is very fond of sport. But this year she has very little time for it because she is busy with her graduation project.

Boris has a daughter. Her name is Ann. Ann is a nice little girl. She is only eight. Ann is very fond of sport and reading books.

VI. Short dialogues for good reading:

Диалоги для контрольного чтения.

1. A: Good after noon!

B: Good after noon! Can I help you?

A: I’d like a pair of brown gloves.

B: Here you are.

A: Thank you.

2. A: I want Ann to go shopping with me.

B: She can’t. She is busy now.

A: It’s a pity.

3. A: Will you show me that grey hat, please?

B: Here you are.

A: Thank you. It’s nice. How much is it?

B: Two pounds.

4. A: Will you try on this blue coat, please?

B: I don’t like it. What about you, Peter?

A: I don’t like it either.

VII. The poem for good reading and learning by heart:

Стихотворение для контрольного чтения и заучивания наизусть.

The Arrow and the Song

By Longfellow

I shot an arrow into the air

It fell to earth I knew not whore

For so swiftly it flew the sight

Couldn’t follow it in its flight

I breathed a song into the air

It fell to earth I knew not where

For who has sight so keen and strong

That it can follow the flight of a song

Long, long afterwards in an oak

I found the arrow still un broke

And the song from beginning to end

I found again in the heart a friend.