5. Intone the dialogue and analyse the phrases in bold type:

- I’m going to do some shopping.

- Can I come too?

- I’d love you to come!

- Are you taking the car?

- I suppose I’ll have to.

- Would you like me to drive?

- Thank you very much.

- Have you seen Tom lately?

- Not since last Wednesday week.

- Wasn’t that your mother’s birthday?

- Yes, it was.

- Did he bring her a present?

- No. He said he forgot.

- Was that the real reason?

- No. He is probably very hard up just now.

- May we go and call on your mother?

- We really haven’t time this morning

The Final Test

1. What is a principal allophone?

2. Classify the following sound: [f]

3. Classify the following sound: [ l]

4. Which among the following pairs confirm the phonological status of [υ]?

a) [pυt] – [pæt]

b) [gυd] – ['bjuti]

c) ['υmlaut] – ['υlrik]

5. Passive organs of speech are …

6. According to the stability of articulation all the vowels are subdivided into …

7. [ʧ] and [ʤ] are:

a) phonemes of restricted distribution

b) monophonemic units

c) biphonemic units

8. In the English language there are ………. phonemes

9. Quasi-homonyms are…

10. The oldest, the simplest and the most readily available articulatory method of investigation of speech sounds is …

11. All English diphthongs are

a) rising

b) falling

c) falling-rising

12. The word chaos ['keiəs] contains

a) A diphthong [ei]

b) A triphthong [eiə]

c) three acoustic elements

13. In Standard English there are ….. diphthongs.

14. What do you know about the diphthong [oə]?

15. The most frequent sound of English is …

16. The most relevant principles of classification of vowels are:

a) stability of articulation; tongue position

b) degree of noise; place of articulation

c) stability of articulation; place of articulation

17. The English rounded vowels are pronounced:

a) with less lip protrusion than the similar Russian vowels

b) with more lip protrusion than the similar Russian vowels

c) with the similar lip protrusion as Russian vowels

18. Characterize the sound [e]:

19. The sound [p] is:

20. The main acoustic sound characteristics are:

21. English diphthongoids are:

22. Intonation has got:

a) a subjective linguistic function

b) no linguistic function

c) an objective linguistic function

23. It is very difficult to study intonation because …

24. The complementary distribution is:

25. Principal allophones are those …

26. Who called the members of a minimal pair quasi-homonyms?

27. What pair of words testifies to the fact that [i] and [i:] are two different phonemes in English but not the allophones of one the same phoneme?

a) ['bi: vә] beaver – ['kiʧn] kitchen

b) ['mi: tә] meter – ['bistә] bistre

c) ['bi:tə] beater – ['bitə] bitter

29. Do these words testify to the opposition [ɔ:] – [ɔ] in English: /brɔ:t/ brought, /lɔ:n/ lawn, /pɔ:t/ port, /frɔst/ frost, /dɔl/ doll, /hɔt/ hot?

a) yes

b) no

c) only /pɔ:t/ port - /hɔt/ hot

30. Characterize the vowel [ə]: