Pronunciation and Spelling in English (стр. 9 из 10)

reveal a great deal about personallity. ______________________

The art of frenology studies the form of the _________________

head, to be more acurate, the bumps on it. __________________

Phrenologists have identified forty bumps of varios ___________

shapes and sises on the human head. They “read _____________

these bumps to identifie a person’s talents and _______________

charactor. For exmple, a bump between the nose _____________

and forhead is said to be present in people who ______________

have natural elegence and love of beauty. A bump ____________

behind the cirve of the ear is the sign of ____________________

a courageous and adventerous person. _____________________

Ex. 10.5 The two words that are written after each sentence sound alike, but have different meanings and spellings (they are called homophones). Fill in the blanks with the correct words to complete each sentence.

1. The _______ spent the ______ in the castle.

A) knight B) night

2. Be sure to ______ your surname on the ______ line.

A) write B) right

3. Have you heard the fairy ______ about the cat with no ______ ?

A) tale B) tail

4. Didn’t you ______ Ann ask you to put the plate______ .

A) here B) hear

5. The ______ on a ______ is called fur.

A) hare B) hair

6. Yesterday the sky was clear ______ and the wind ______ from the north.

A) blue B) blew

7. He decided to ______ his new belt, but he doesn’t know ______ he put it.

A) where B) wear

8. From ______ hundred flowers the prince had to find the flower before it was ______ late.

A) too B) two

9. It is not ______ if some people do not pay their bus ______ .

A) fair B) fare

10. The coach announced which ______ of the teams ______ the game.

A) won B) one

11. We brought a ______ of cool water to the ______ traveler.

A) pail B) pale

12. Do you always ______ the skin off a ______ before you eat it?

A) pare B) pear

13. The Indians wrote the ______ treaty on a ______ of bark.

A) piece B) peace

14. After his illness John felt ______ for a ______ .

A) week B) weak

15. The boat sailed ______ through the ______ .

A) straight B) strait

Ex. 10.6 Correct the spelling mistakes in the letter below:

Deer Jane,

Hear I am in Siberia. We’ve been hear for too weaks now, and I can’t bare the thought of staying in this country any longer.

What dreadful whether! It’s bitterly cold out. When I’m chilled to the bone, I think I’ll never warm up.

Wee leave in a wooden house. It is surrounded with a huge would. The hunter, who lives with us, says that the would is full of beasts. You can walk their and meat a dear or a bear. As for me, I saw a hair’s sine.

Do you think it is fare to leave me hear! I can’t even sleep in piece. Can’t you come and stay with me? The air fair is really not very expensive. Hope to sea you soon. Your Jack.

Ex. 10.7 Find the pairs of homophones hidden in the list below:

Side/ balls/ bear/ bowled/ cue/ ducked/ fort/ work/ grate/ hair/ hare/ bales/ week/ dally/ bald/ hold/ fought/ weekly/ stoke/ walk/ missed/ air/ pure/ packed/ pear/ pore/ where/ pour/ duct/ bore/ seam/ quiet/ sought/ please/ shake/ wade/ sheikh/ pleas/ weakly/ bold/ past/ sighed/ piece/ mist/ wear/ seem/ sight/ slay/ wake/ win/ steak/ stalk/ stroke/ stork/ daily/ stake/ weak/ bare/ holed/ wine/ pact/ bawls/ passed/ wane/ queue/ great/ heir/ pair/ whine/ grant/ sleigh/ same/ weighed/ site/ peace

Ex. 10.8 Each line contains three words that rhyme and one word that doesn’t. Choose the odd one out.

Example: steel peal stale peel

Bert	Curt	shirt	Bart
coot	loot	soot	shoot
relate	fete	weight	height
spook	took	look	rook
food	mood	brewed	good
sewed	glued	chewed	nude
jerk	clerk	work	shirk
packed	backed	baked	fact
scene	sign	mean	convene
laze	phase	days	size
peak	steak	leak	cheek
soot	cut	put	foot
height	tight	weight	might
stalk	work	fork	cork
quite	night	lied	light
clear	bear	hare	fair
barred	bared	hard	yard
duke	spook	look	Luke
taught	court	snort	coughed
priced	missed	fist	kissed

Ex. 10.9 Spelling tests:

a) Each word here has the sound [e]. How many ways are there to spell this sound?
Arrange the words into the groups:

readydeskbreadinsteadagainstleather

hellonexthelpingssaidbreakfastsledge

meantagainwhenenemyhedgehogpencil

b) Tick the words that have the vowel sound [ɒ]:

catchpondbonespocketwhatbought

jobhomeblankroadhouseroof

wifedoctorpopularsoupclosehorse

c) Each word here has the sound [Λ]. How many ways are there to spell this sound?
Arrange the words into the groups:

touchstuffdrumroughamongglove

tonguedugmothertrustdonemonth

countryenoughsondoublecouplemuddy

d) Each word here has the sound [f]. How many ways are there to spell this sound?
Arrange the words into the groups:

laughcoffeeherselffaceenough

officerfactelephantgiftoff

epigraphrooffarmerroughtelephone

e) Each word here has the sound [eI]. How many ways are there to spell this sound? Arrange the words into the groups:

haymaintrailmaysave

gatetrayfaillanesail

stagepaintstayplacegame

f) Each word here has the sound [i:]. How many ways are there to spell this sound?
Arrange the words into the groups:

seeddreamsleepwheelteam

griefweekniecedeletecomplete

seaevefieldmeatscene

g) Each word here has the sound [aI]. How many ways are there to spell this sound? Arrange the words into the groups:

finddimeflyrightquite

tightbrightpileninthkind

minedrylineflightsigh

h) Each word here has the sound [əυ]. How many ways are there to spell this sound? Arrange the words into the groups:

dozemoansnowgoathold

stonecoldjokegoldbowl

roadcodegrowfloatblow

i) Each word here has the sound [u:]. How many ways are there to spell this sound? Arrange the words into the groups:

moonchewglueblewzooblue

cluedrewruletruethrewJune

schoolpoolrudeincludegloomyboot

Ex. 10.10 Find the rhymes

Here are some very short, two-line poems, but the rhyming words are missing. Try to guess the missing words which complete each poem. If you can’t think of any, choose from the list.
(The list contains some words which rhyme, but which do not make sense in the poems.)

I think you ___________ She’s learned to ___________

To leave the __________ In just a __________________

You haven’t ________ It’s always ___________

A single ___________ Down on the __________

I like a ________

Last thing at ____

bike/ bird/ bite/ bought/ byte/ calm/ caught/ charm/ court/ farm/ feel/ fight/ harm/ heard/ herd/ leak/ leek/ light/ like/ listened/ meal/ might/night/ ought/ right/ should/ sight/ speak/ spoken/ talk/ taught/ token/walk/ weak/ week/ wood/ word/ work

This shirt you ______ I think I’ll __________

Is rather __________ A pound of _________

He’s learned to _______ It’s not too __________

In just one __________ To lose some ________

I wish the ___________

Would make less ______

bought/ boys/ buy/ by/ caught/ day/ height/ kids/ late/ light/ mate/ meat/ meet/ night/ noise/ play/ poem/ read/ reed/ right/ shake/ short/ soon/ sound/ steak/ take/ toys/ wait/ weigh/ weight/ write

I think the ______ It might make _____

Would like to _____ To build a ________

My youngest ________ I’ll try to __________

Sure likes to _________ To get a __________

He’s too ___________

To want to _________

alone/ aunts/ bone/ box/ dames/ dance/ fence/ fight/ friendly/ fun/ girls/ loan/ lone/ none/ one/ pence/ phone/ polite/ right/ run/ scared/ sense/ sight/ son/ sun/ trance

11. Additional Practice in Reading and Memory Work

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LES SILHOUETTES

Oscar Wilde

The sea is flecked with bars of grey

The dull dead wind is out of tune,

And like a withered leaf the moon

Is blown across the stormy bay.

Etched clear upon the pallid sand

The black boat lies: a sailor boy

Clambers aboard in careless joy

With laughing face and gleaming hand.

And overhead the curlews cry,

Where through the dusky upland grass

The young brown-throated reapers pass,

Like silhouettes against the sky.

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REQUIESCAT

Oscar Wilde

Tread lightly, she is near

Under the snow,

Speak gently, she can hear

The daisies grow.

All her bright golden hair

Tarnished with rust,

She that was young and fair

Fallen to dust.

Lily-like, white as snow,

She hardly knew

She was a woman, so

Sweetly she grew.

Coffin-board, heavy stone,

Lie on her breast,

I vex my heart alone

She is at rest.

Peace, Peace, she cannot hear

Lyre or sonnet,

All my life's buried here,

Heap earth upon it.

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(MR= Marta Rodriguez)

MR Good morning, everyone. Thanks for coming to my presentation. My name’s Marta Rodriguez. I’m Personnel Director of Tara Fashions. I’m going to talk to you today about our company. First, I’ll give you some basic information about Tara Fashions. Then I’ll talk about our overseas stores. After that I’ll outline the strengths of the company. Next I’ll talk about career opportunities with Tara. And finally I’ll mention our future plans. I’ll be pleased to answer any questions at the end of my talk.

Let me start with some basic facts about Tara. The company started in 1978. We are a family-owned business and our head office is in Cordoba, Spain. We sell clothes for men and women, and our customers are mainly fashion-conscious people aged 20 to 35. We have 15 stores in Spain. All the stores are very profitable.

Right, those are the basic facts.

Let me add a few figures. We have an annual turnover of about 260 million euro. Our net profits last year were approximately 16 million euro. We have a workforce of just over 2,000 employees. So those are the numbers. Now about our overseas stores. We have four large stores in France and another ten in other European countries. We are planning to open five new stores next year. What are our strengths? We keep up with fashion trends. If we spot a trend, we can bring out a new design in 15 days. And we get it to the stores very quickly. We deliver to stores twice a week. And we sell our designs at the right price.

OK, now what about career opportunities? It’s quite simple. If you are ambitious and fashion-conscious, we have opportunities in all areas of our business. We will welcome you with open arms.

Finally, a few words about our new projects. We are planning to open a new store in New York next year – on Fifth Avenue. This will give us a foothold in the US market. We’re very excited about this new development.

Well, thanks very much for listening to my talk. Are there any questions?

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(I=Inge, Ka=Katharina, Ke=Kenneth, N=Nada, J=Julia)

I Right, can we start, please? The main aim of the meeting is to decide the date of the launch. After that, we’ll talk about our marketing strategy and decide which sales outlets we should target. OK, when are we going to launch the goggles? Katharina, what do you think? Should it be early next year or should we wait until the summer?