Непроизносимые согласные

igh	[aı]	flight, night, bright, high, plight, light, tight, might, sight, slightly, thigh
kn	[n]	know, knife, knead, knight, knowledge
wr	[r ]	write, wrong, wrist
gn	[n]	sign, design, align
mb	[m]	climb, bomb, dumb
lm	[m]	calm, palm
lf, lve	[f], [v]	half, halve
mn	[m]	solemn, column
h		hour,honest,honour

Буква g в большинстве случаев читается [g]: grow, big, guest, guide.

Буква g перед e, i, y читается [G]: geography, gentleman, age, gym, кроме get, give, girl.

Буква с перед e, i, y читается [s]: cell, city, Cyprus, nice, juice, Tracy, face, lyceum, trace, circle, circa и т.д., кроме Сelt.

В остальных случаях буква с читается [k] catch, crop, picture, historic и т.д.

Ex.4. Read the words in columns.

high palm calm whole watch shape right sick

knife wrong dumb which church might thumb know chair wish where match what thank they rank

Чтение гласных диграфов ai, ei, oi, au, ou, oa, ee, ea, ay, ey, oy, eu, oo

Диграф – сочетание 2 букв, произносимых как 1 звук (фонема).

Первая группа	Вторая группа	Третья группа
ei [eı] vein oi [Oı] oil, moist, point oy [Oı] boy ey [eı] they	oo [u:] в конце слов и перед согласными: too, soon, moon, room au [L] August, autumn ou [aV] out, count	ai [eı] fail, main ay [eı] day, May oa [әV] coat, coast ee [ i: ] see, tree ea [ i: ] sea, mean eu [ju:] neutral

Сочетание ea читается 3 способами:

[ i: ]	[e]	[eı]
sea, mean, season, reason, treaty, cream, leader, breathe, eat, team, etc.	thread, ready, weather, weapon, deaf, breath, meant, bread, breakfast, instead, measure, treasure, pleasure, read (p.s., p.p.), head, steady, spread, leather, threaten, dead, death, leapt, meadow, heady, dread, dreadlocks, breast, threat, dealt, lead (n.), heavy, dreamt, etc.	break, great, steak

Ex.5. Practise reading these words.

autumn found teach boat dream around

Australia cloud reach boil please mount

clay may mail avoid read house

about meet employ grey stout easy

Запомните следующие правила чтения:

Сочетание all произносится [Ll]: tall, fall, hall, all, mall, ball, install, wall, call, etc.

Буква a перед –sk, -st, -ss читается [R] (BE): task, fast, pass, grass, glass, etc.

Буква a перед сочетанием th и перед n, s, f читается [R] в британском варианте: rafting, path, after, etc.

Буква i перед ld и nd читается [aı]: kind, mild, find, wild, child, etc.

Буква o перед ld читается [әV]: gold, cold, told, hold, mold, fold, etc.

Сочетание букв ture читается [Cә]: picture, cultural, mixture, feature, temperature, architecture.

Буква о перед буквами m, n, v, th в большинстве случаев читается [Λ]: dozen, mother, money, honey, Monday, other, another, some, London, brother, son, among, glove, cover, monkey, 'onion, oven, come, become, colour, comfort, thorough, does, worry, front, ton, done, discover, company, none, dove, monk, ironmonger (fishmonger, etc).

Сочетание букв ow читается 2 способами: [aV] now, town, cow, owl, clown; [әV] low, slow, blow, snow, own, Moscow.

Сочетание букв ou читается 2 способами: [aV] house, outstanding, found, about, county; [әV] poultry, shoulder. Но: country [Λ]; route, group [u:].

Диграфы au, ou перед ght читаются [L]: daughter, thought, brought, bought, caught, slaughter. Ho: draught, drought.

Буква x читается [ks]: text, exercise, six, telex, taxes, etc. Но перед ударной гласной буква x читается [gz]: exam, exhibit, example, etc.

Чтение диграфов перед буквой r

Диграф + r	Звук	Примеры
ai + r	[εә ]	air, chair, affair
ei + r	[εә ]	their, heir
ee + r	[ıә ]	deer, beer
ea + r1	[εә ] [ıә ]	bear, wear near, dear, real
oa + r	[L ]	hoarse, board
oo + r2	[υә ]	moor, poor
ou + r3	[aυә ]	hour, our

¹Но: learn [3:], ²floor, door [L], ³tour [Vә ].

Ex.6. Read and remember the words.

hair month ask mind taught bold appearance

lowland nature pass crowd sought done brother

feature hear task borrow told father bathroom