Revision

Exercise 1. Group the following words according to the type of a syllable they perform.

We, red, nill, valve, fume, rise, pane, scene, tube, globe, must, twelve, ink, grudge, Scotch, space, dark, black, birth, won, sparse, stern, firm, turn, wave, swift, swum, wake, term, turn, flirt, Byrd, fare, fame, arm, storm, store, stare, here, form, bore, staring, fanning, singing, farming, rating, carry, sorry linking, hitting, boxing, boring, during, tiring.

Exercise 2. Transcribe the following words. Split them into two groups: diagraphs that are pronounced as a) monophthongs; b) diphthongs.

Grey, glow, dawn, coin, grew, blew, room, fruit, true, boy, law, loud, they, join, coat, feet, pain, blue, beat.

Exercise 3. Copy the following words and in each group underline those which are pronounced with

[Iq] fear ear dear pear bear near wear

[J] meat great ready reading teacher weather

[L] cord sword word world cork work

[P] moth mother both bother broth brother

[au] low show how cow now snow

[qu] done one alone come home

[A] bough dough though rough enough

[qu] rose lose close those whose

[E:] heard beard early nearly

[auq] hour our pour your

[A] worm worse worry sorry

Exercise 4. Transcribe the following pairs of words correctly.

Do, go; font, front; move, stove; are, spare; ground, touch; here, there; now, know; put, but; over, cover; nine, machine; they, key; arm, warm; does, goes; ice, office; river, driver; wearing, learning; evening, every; own, town; sorry, worry; cost, most; south, southern; pays, says; door, poor; height, weight; give, dive; con, won; gild, wild; said, maid; deaf, leaf.

Exercise 5. Correct the errors you detect.

a) 1. The nurse will not be hear till twelve. 2. The desk is made of birch and fur. 3. The boy has one his mother’s love. 4. He says he cannot weight so long. 5. The men are feint for want of food. 6. Take the grey horse by the rain. 7. The dear are feeding in the park. 8. The earth is wet with early due. 9. The fouls were black but some were brown. 10. The map shows the root they took. 11. This egg has got a double yoke. 12. Sugar is made from a plant called beat. 13. James got a bury as large as a plum. 14. The trees extended their bows and formed a pleasant shade. 15. The lion held the goat in his pause. 16. The bird flue through the window. 17. The boy threw the ball and broke the pain. 18. The friends will meat next week. 19. The bride sat attired in the bridle dress. 20. The girl has a slender waste.

b) 1. Your cousin’s gloves are torn and werse than mine. 2. My friend’s niece is in greif. 3. She will not altar her decision. 4. The policeman siezed the theif. 5. The tailor braught the suit. 6. The surgeon thaught the case hopeless. 7. Neither the principle not the teacher understands John’s strange behaviour. 8. The rumour spred from town to town. 9. A large sturgeon was caught neer the mouth of the river. 10. The turkey picks up the barley which fell from the lorrey.

Exercise 6. For the following words write as many homophones as you know or can discover, making sure you know their meaning.

male ware steel berth aisle strait

our sale stile flour current formerly

cue soar seem loan waste knight

peal fare pail pray frieze forward

I flea feat heir knew forth

Exercise 7. Choose the correctly spelled word.

1. The invasion of the town was the (ocasion, occasion, ocassion) of much distress. 2. Fresh air is (essential, essencial, esential) to the patient’s health. 3. London is the greatest (comertial, comersial, commercial) city of England. 4. The new edition of his book has undergone a careful (revission, revision, revigion). 5. (ambicious, ambitious, ambituos) men are never satisfied. 6. A (juditious, judicious, juditous) selection must be made. 7. The (prosession, procession, procesion) took an hour to pass. 8. The queen’s (accession, akcession, accetion) was hailed with joy. 9. Pains and (akes, aics, aches) are hard to bear. 10. The (phraze, frase, phrase) he used was not correct. 11. He drank a (draft, draught) of cool beer. 12. The miners will (desend, decend, descend) the pit. 13. His way of life is very (ruff, rouf, rough). 14. The (ssisors, scizors, scissors) lie beside the scythe. 15. (Proffesor, Proffessor, Professor) Brown was on his way to Manchester. 16. The situation was really very (awquard, awkward, orquard). 17. In the eighteenth century the (knowlege, knowledge, nowledge) of young ladies of history and geography was very poor. 18. (Shiller, Schiller, Schiler) is a great writer of the past. 19. I always admire her rosy (coplecsion, complection, complexion). 20. (Ajective, adjective, agective) is a part of speech.

Exercise 8. Two words in each of the following sentences a) either lack a letter or b) have an extra letter. In either case correct the spelling.

1. I should like, incidentaly, to ad one more point to my argument. 2. Occasional missprints in the books allways disturb her. 3. We should not emmbarrass our hostes by leaving too early. 4. Bill never controled his temper and invariably made a response to any coment he heard. 5. The youths were curious to learn how one so clever was not addmitted to the colege. 6. Everyone wants a litle hapiness in his life. 7. We alltogether aggreed that after supper we should attend the party all together. 8. They acepted our terms unconditionaly. 9. The correspondents tried without success to gain addmittance to the conferrence. 10. We find learning speling rules not as adificult as we had expected. 11. Let no one dessert the dinner table untill we served our specially prepared dessert. 12. The drivers actualy arived in time. 13. An intelligent looking proffessor was accommpanied by his colleagues. 14. You can increase your vocabulary by constantly refering to the dictionary of synonyms to vary your writen and oral expression. 15. She really couldn’t get accustommed to her opponent’s meanness and attempts to avoid an honest disscussion.

Exercise 9. Write out the words below using the normal English alphabet.

[dIsq'pOInt] [dI'strxkt] ['dIsqnqnt] [dIs'sxtIsfaI] [dI'stres] ["dIsq'pIq]

['IrIteIt] [q'raIv] [q'reInG] [q'raIz] [sq'rendq] [sq'Gest]

['xgrqveIt] [I'lItqrqt] [sq'fjHz] [I'lHmIneIt] ['ImIgrqnt] ["Imq'mLrIql]

[kq'mISn] [kq'mIt] ['kOmqn] [sq'fISnt] ['kOmWs] [kq'lIZn]

Exercise 10. Mark the stresses in the following words.

Violet, tragedy, union, collective, fission, social, feature, region, question, theatre, triangular, ocean, mission, motion, special, connexion, nation, efficient, visible, funeral, geometry, relative, probability, organise, specific.