- •Графика и орфография английского
- •The Nature of English Spelling
- •Check your knowledge
- •Lesson 2 Types of Graphemes
- •Simple vowel graphemes
- •Four Types of a Syllable
- •Check your knowledge
- •Lesson 3 Additional Sound Values of Simple Vowel Graphemes
- •Letter a
- •Letter e
- •Letter I
- •Letter o
- •Letter u
- •Letter y
- •Exercises to Lesson 3
- •Check your knowledge
- •Lesson 4 Simple Consonant Graphemes
- •Check your knowledge
- •Lesson 5 The Doubling of Consonant Letters
- •Check your knowledge
- •Lesson 6 Mute (Silent) Consonants
- •Check your knowledge
- •List of words with silent consonant letters
- •Check your knowledge
- •Lesson 8 Diagraphs
- •Vowel Diagraphs
- •Consonant Diagraphs
- •Ways of Pronunciation of Certain Letter Combinations
- •Vowel Diagraphs Before the Consonant r
- •Check your knowledge
- •Lesson 9 Syllable Division
- •The Rules of Syllable Division
- •Check your knowledge
- •Additional exercise
- •Revision
- •Finding words in the dictionary
- •Checking spelling
- •Pronunciation
Check your knowledge
Exercise 1. Define the type of a syllable. Group the words according to the type of a syllable. Read all the words.
Tire, still, part, pot, shot, share, bid, fill, hide, bird, port, stale, hit, lake, fire, best, dare, nor, bud, shirt, torn, hate, hurt, hat, lark, dire, hut, hard, turn.
Lesson 3 Additional Sound Values of Simple Vowel Graphemes
a + consonants
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a + ss, st, sk, sp |
a + nt, nce, nch |
a + ff, ft, th |
a + l + consonant |
a + l + k l is silent |
a + l + m, f, ve l is silent |
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[R] pass, past, ask, grasp |
[R] plant, dance, branch |
[R] staff, craft, bath, father |
[L] fall, call, always, salt + almost
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[L] talk, walk, chalk |
[R] palm, half, halve |
Exercise 1. Read the following words.
class – pass – glass – grass – brass
fast – past – cast – vast – mast
ask – task – flask – bask – mask
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b) past – pass – grasp fast – glass – clasp |
cast – class – gasp last – grass – rasp |
Exercise 2. Read the following words.
France – chance – dance – glance
plant – grant – can’t – aren’t
branch – stanch – ranch
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b) past – trance fast – France task – chance gasp – branch cast – grass |
ask – can’t mask – trance clasp – lance pass – stanch vast – shan’t |
Exercise 3. Read the following words.
aft – craft – shaft bath – path – lath |
b) staff – bluff chaff – fluff
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Exercise 4. Read the following words.
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a) hind – hand – can’t blind – band – plant kind – and – aren’t grind – grand - grant
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b) franc – France Dan – dance tram – trance gland – glance
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c) bat – bath pat – path lad – lath
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d) cats – cast mats – mast fats – fast gaps – gasp pats – past claps – clasp |
e) must – mast dunce – dance
tusk – task shunt – shan’t
crunch – branch hunt – can’t
grunt – grant stuff – staff
Exercise 5. Read the following words.
all – fall – small – tall – stall – wall
call – ball – salt – smalt – false – spall
smaller – taller – caller
falling – calling – stalling
salty – fallen – baldly
Exercise 6. Read the following words.
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a) talk chalk calk walk stalk balk
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b) small – talk all – chalk tall – balk call – calk stall – stalk wall – walk task – talk bask – balk ask – calk mask – chalk |
c) corks – calks forks – walks storks – stalks
d) walking – walker talking – talker chalking – chalky stalking – stalky
e) balking – calking |
Exercise 7. Read the following words.
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a) calm – palm calf – half calves – halves
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b) calm – charm balm – barn palm – farm calf – scarf half – harm |
Home assignment:
Get ready for the dictation on the following words (make sure you know what they mean and the way they are pronounced):
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class cast fast fatherland gasp mask nasty
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all ball false hall tall wall gall waltz |
balk talking |
balm calf halve malm palmist salve |
CHECK YOUR KNOWLEDGE
Exercise 1. Read aloud the words listed below and explain how the phoneme [R] is represented.Transcribe the words.
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back – bark, bar cat – cart, car pack – park, par chap – charge, char fame – farm, far |
bathe – bath came – calm paste – past grace – grass lace – lance |
bake – bask Kate – cast plate – plant grape – grasp
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