Exam Phonetics Questions

Exam Phonetics Questions

II TERM

Task 1

Read the text, write out from the paragraph on p.63 the monosyllabic words and group them according to the following syllable patterns: V, VC, VCC, CVC, CV, CCVC, CVCC, CVCCC.

Task 2

Read the text, write out the words consisting of two and more syllables. Analyse the words with different accentual structures and group them according to their stress patterns.

Task 3

Find in the paragraph on p.65 the words containing the diphthongs and arrange them according to their glides.

 - gliding	 - gliding	 - gliding

Task 4

Analyse the sentence on p.68, divide it into intonation groups, lay stress-tone marks, give the number of rhythmic groups in each intonation group.

Task 5

Read the text, find compound adjectives on p.27-28, and give their stress patterns. Сomment on the peculiarities of word stress in English. Exemplify your answer.

Task 6

Read the text, write out the questions, transcribe them, lay stress-tone marks, give their tonograms and explain the use of nuclear tones in different types of questions.

Task 7

Read the text, find the words and word combinations in which the phonemes undergo the loss of plosion, the lateral, the nasal and the fricative types of plosion, transcribe them.

Task 8

Read the text, find the words containing the back-lingual phoneme //, transcribe them, explain the peculiarity of its articulation.

Task 9

Read the text, write out the sentences containing the compound numerals, transcribe them, comment on their accentual structures when they are used in isolation and in connected speech.

Task 10

Read the text, find the words and word boundaries in which the phonemes undergo different types of plosion, transcribe them and define the allophones which represent them in connected speech.

Task 11

Find the sentences containing Direct Address, write them down, lay stress-tone marks. Comment on the peculiarities of the intonation of Direct Address in different sentence positions.

Task 12

Read the text, find the words containing the vowels / i:/ and //, transcribe them and comment on their graphical rules.

Task 13

Analyse the sentence on p. 280, divide it into intonation groups, lay stress-tone marks, define the number of rhythmic groups in each intonation group.

Task 14

Read the text and group the words from the marked paragraph on p.283 into the columns according to the number of syllables they contain:

Monosyllabic words

Disyllabic words

Three-syllable words

Four-syllable words

Comment on the peculiarities of the word stress in English.

Task 15

Write out the verbs in the past tense and group them according to the pronunciation of their ending. Explain your choice.

/t/	/d/	/d/, /d/

Task 16

Read the text, write out from the paragraphs on p.128 10 words in which the unstressed vowels undergo qualitative reduction, transcribe them, give their stress patterns.

Task 17

Write out the verbs in the past tense and group them according to the pronunciation of their ending. Explain your choice.

/t/	/d/	/d/, /d/

Task 18

Read the text, find the words containing the letter “c” and group them according to the phoneme it represents in speech. Give the rules of its reading.

/s/	/k/

Task 19

Read the text, find disyllabic and trisyllabic words, transcribe them, analyse the qualitative changes of the unstressed vowels in these words and give their accentual patterns .

Task 20

Read the text, find in the paragraphs on p. 32 the words, which have vowel phonemes //, //, // in the stressed syllables, transcribe them, give their graphical rules.

Task 21

Find the words containing the lateral sonorant /l/, transcribe them. Comment on the peculiarities of the phonetic realization of /l/ in connected speech.

Task 22

Write out the questions, lay stress-tone marks and give their tonograms. Explain the use of nuclear tones in different types of questions.

Task 23

Read the text, write out the sentences containing Direct Address, lay stress-tone marks. Comment on the peculiarities of the intonation of Direct Address in different sentence positions.

Task 24

Write down the sentence, speak on the intonation of enumeration in emotionally neutral and emotionally coloured speech.

Task 25

Read the first paragraph on p.7, write it down, divide the sentences into intonation groups, lay stress-tone marks. Group the words in two columns:

Words which are usually stressed

Words which are usually unstressed

Task 26

Read the text, define the cases of assimilation affecting the manner of the production of noise and resulting in the nasal and fricative types of plosion.

Task 27

Find the words containing the vowel /:/, transcribe them. Give its graphical rules.

Task 28

Read the text and group the words from the paragraph on p.85 into the columns according to the number of syllables they contain:

Monosyllabic words

Disyllabic words

Three-syllable words

Four-syllable words

Comment on the peculiarities of the word stress in English.

Task 29

Find in the text the words containing the lateral sonorant /l/, transcribe them. Comment on the realisation of /l/ in speech.

Task 30

Find in the text the sentences containing the author’s words in different sentence positions. Write down these sentences, lay stress-tone marks. Comment on the peculiarities of the intonation of author’s words.