Второй тип чтения – гласная в закрытом слоге

Закрытым называется слог, который оканчивается на согласную букву, например, pea-nut. По второму типу чтения гласные буквы читаются следующим образом:

a [ æ ] flag o [ ɒ ] doll i hip

[ ɪ ]

e [ e ] bed u [ ʌ ] bus y myth

Exercise 6. Practice reading the words.

a [ æ ] has, cat, plan, man, ant, ham, pants, grab, fat, flat, black, mad, that, tram, Jack;

e [ e ] men, bet, belt, set, get, met, melt, pet, rest, let, send, lend, mend, bed, dentist;

o [ ɒ ] dog, fog, fox, box, ox, got, hot, pot, lost, golf, frog, drop, sock, lock;

u [ ʌ ] bus, cup, cut, run, mud, muddy, dull, puff, must, fun, hunt, hunter, plug, trust;

i [ ɪ ] fill, did, miss, pick, till, split, stick, hit, mix, fix, milk, brick, kilt, kill, trick;

y [ ɪ ] gym, myth, cyst, lynx, system, symbol, gypsy, hymn.

Exercise 7. Read and transcribe the words. Do not forget to put the stress mark if a word has two or more syllables.

Drag, mug, risk, lamp, butter, top, red, silk, help, luck, nod, hand, hip, event, suffer, crack, tell, clock, jog, under, flag, settle, win, fund, kiss, net, nanny, grumble, tent, insist, stuck.

Exercise 8. Read the words and underline those with the indicated sounds.

[ æ ] black, made, fat, fate, scat, tone, race, tag.

[ ʌ ] busy, boy, bus, butter, tube, but, music, cut, fun, honey.

[ ɒ ] pot, block, ton, nod, doggie, coal, frost.

[ əʊ ] dog, pony, knock, sock, lone, drop, problem, nosy.

[ e ] let, time, be, see, get, set, live, tock, spend, spent.

Exercise 9. Practice reading the following tongue-twister. Find the words which are pronounced according to type 2.

Betty Botter bought some butter. But, she said, ‘This butter’s bitter!

If I put it in my batter, it will make my batter bitter’.

So, she bought a bit of butter better than her bitter butter,

And she put it in her batter and her batter was not bitter.

So, ‘twas better Betty Botter bought a bit of better butter.

Exercise 10. Practice reading the words in pairs.

[ e ] - [ æ ] [ I ] - [ i: ]

men - man slip - sleep

ten - tan fill - feel

led - lad lick - leak

pen - pan did - deed

pet - pat fit - feet

send - sand mill - meal

bed - bad sit - seed

said - sad ship - sheep

met - mat chip - cheap

Exercise 11. Read the words and define the type of reading.

Lake, sip, attend, risk, later, attack, song, nice, tax, baby, construct, me, grab, tape, mile, depend, bucket, fist, nose, date, gang, golf, resist, grace, bug, sane, chess, frost, dad.

Exercise 12. Read and translate the text. Define the type of reading of the vowels in the italicized words.