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PRONUNCIATION TRAINING

Supplementary Exercises

2008-2009

                                                     UNIT 1

Read thefollowing:

1.  – name, James, Jane, plate, baker, later, cable, cape, date, face, fame, flame, grace, grave, age, jade, lake, lane, mace, make, mate, pace, place, race, rate

-  lie, like, line, pride, price, pry, five, nine, wife, Mike, pilot, fly, nice, pie, fine, pine, dine, kite, ice, tie, mice, pipe, spice, die, dye, dry, fly

-  cold, globe, hope, mode, ode, open, pole, post, prone, prose, no, old, bone, tone, woke, novel, smoke, over, nose, noble, close, node

-  Cuban, student, duke, cube, cure, tune, human, music

2.  -    stone house, old pine, nice wine, my time, noble duke, baker’s pie, 

my place, five stones, fine style, nine pipes, nice lakes, paper globe,

five miles, late date, Mike’s tie, old novel, fine face, Pete’s cable

3.       My name’s Kate. Pete, don’t smoke! Mike’s late. Jake’s wife’s nice

James, go home! I like Rome. My home’s nice. Phone, Dena.

Mike’s nine. My table’s old. Jane’s shy. Lee, make notes! Joe’s

Cuban. Jane came home late. Rose likes spices. Post my cable.

4.  /b/: back, bee, buy, better, borrow, block, brass, Ben, Betty, blue

/d/: dance, day, dome, duke, date, disco, dollar, different, Dolly

/f/:  five, family, February, Frank, fly, fine, fume, far, face, fact

/l/:  last, like, less, list, lion, lack, lab, land, lamp, life, live, lock

/m/: many, make, Mike, Molly, milk, mend, May, mad, marry

/n/: name, not, nail, Nick, Nile, need, net, nip, nose, note, nut

/p/: pay, park, pack, pale, Pete, pan, pen, peep, place, pink, put

/t/: take, table, tent, trace, tool, ticket, tap, tank, tin, tide, tube

/v/: voice, very, visa, visit, vase, vest, vice, Vicky, veto, vine

UNIT 2

Read the following:

1.  – many, Anny, land, dad, ham, fan, dam, happy, fat, rat, habit, hand, jam, pan, rat, fact, flat, gamble, gap, capital

-  tent, rest, rent, sense, present, plenty, rebel, fell, fresh, nest, pence, test, relic, press, help, level

-   limit, mint, mix, pity, wit, miracle, kid, finish, Kitty, risk, ill, fill,

lilly, pink, pig, primitive, prince, print, city

-    poll, fox, hock, Dottie, florist, dog, from, lorry, John, pond, drop,

origin, frost, Nora, coffee, hot, stop, hobby, job, jog

-  fun, butter, luck,  bucket, jumble, dull, mud, nun, ugly, just, nut, 

plus, cut, club, cup, lump, drum, customer, public, pulse

2.     many fans, Nora’s fan, Dottie’s dog, hot coffee, dull film, many nuts

strong fox, present job, sick dad, ugly nun, red flag, fresh butter, bad

habit, Tom’s hobby, lucky Kitty, pink cup, happy prince, big risk

3. -healthy, wealthy, tenth, thank, thaw, theft, thief, theme, theory, three,

therapy,  thick, thin, thing, think, thistle, thorn, throw, teeth, thunder, path, Thursday

-  although, other, another, then, they, those, these, this, that, bathe, breathe

-  chic, chef, Chicago, machine, chiffon. shout, push, washing up, hardship, British, show, shopping, shelter, shave, shell, shine, sheet, shelf

4. – Vicky’s family is in Canada. Tom is Betty’s husband. It’s Sam’s pen.

Nell is clever and practical. Stop pushing, Tom. It’s foggy and misty on Sunday.  Put butter and milk on the shelf. Nora is a florist. Dottie and John drink strong coffee. Anny is John’s sister. Shall we take a cab? Put the clock back. Press this button. They bathe in the river in summer. Sheila is washing up. Don’t shout and push. This is the path to the house. Let’s go shopping, Sheila. What is there on the shelf? I think they are from Italy. The sun is shining in the sky. Thank you very much. She was thirty in Thursday. Is there anything worth watching on TV?

                                           UNIT 3

Read the following:

1.  aid, aim, air, afraid, fall, call, ball, dairy, daily, dare, dawn, down, delay, maid, market, May, ray, train, Glasgow, say, remark, rather, half, cause, awful, fault, card, cardigan, Mr Tailor, wait, away, rarely, farmer, fare, fair, Clare, hair, pair, stare, Mary, Ann, pain, Charley, again, margin, Frank, James, Alice, pardon, pay, Sally, Max, aunt, straw, false

2.   black ball, Sally’s aunt, Mary’s chair, May day, rare aid, sharp pain

small class, aunt’s age, last May, vast market, Mary’s father, awful

dog, small ball, say again, pay half, daily pay, rather awful

3.  Max is afraid of dogs. Frank is a farmer. Mr Tailor has got a pain

in the back. The train fare is rather low. Pardon me, Sally. Mary’s

cardigan is black. I rarely call James. It’s my fault, not Ann’s. Wait

a bit, Clare. Mr Black is from Glasgow. It’s half past nine. I like

autumn. Charley is rather calm today.

4.  – miracle, conference, can, cut, clean, niece, come, customer, car,

coffee, call, policy, cucumber, recently, cat, colonel, mercy,

college, core, coin, corn, code, copy, voice, actress, cook, juice