2011 phonetics / Hand out 4 / Read and transcribe
.doc1. Read and transcribe the following sentences.
Pleased to meet you. Extremes meet. Greek meets Greek. How much cheese do you need? It’s easy to be wise after the event.
2. Transcribe the following words and explain the reading rules.
Five, tip, bed, pine, land, try, rule, ton, fry, tone, pupil, love, cut, shade, brother, shall, bus, snack, blame, found, green, town, toy, farmer, glove, warm, some, won, worse, nothing, mild, world, company, ought, brought.
3. Transcribe the following words and explain the reading rules.
Pale, date, ban, same, Spain, leave, beat, dead, mean, nice, deed, pin, pine, dent, May, fit, style, title, ease, pet, veal.
4. Transcribe the following words and explain the reading rules.
Cap, ice, neck, mice, jam, age, gym, chest, catch, shave, fish, faith, these pieces, teachers, purpose, curly, turned, pause, tears, cold, care, till, pity, tennis, taxi, took, colour, pumped, covered, possible.
5. Transcribe the following words and explain the reading rules.
Risk, ripe, rally, hay, hate, heap, yes, easy, daddy, yelp, myth, next, exam, ring, sting, drink, clink, pink, prank, shy, chain, change, mine, mile, gem, lest, sad, fuss, cube, bloom, rudder, darn, ugly, thirsty, icy, free, peck, laid, quest, chair, quits, fall, tail, chalk, walk, stew, hewn, wrest, wrung, wrist, angle, nigh, bright, army, lady, jar, furnish, robber, razor, bow, cave.
6. Transcribe the following words and explain the reading rules.
Boot, prepare, ball, book, mere, meat, store, bread, care, palm, cure, cold, last, plant, text, rather, germ, hurt, grasp, staff, bald, calf, chalk, clasp, dancer, branch, stone, dull, naughty, lazy, strict, lake, present, basket, pure.
7. Transcribe the following words and explain the reading rules.
Weather, hotel, dead, myself, instead, help, card, France, answer, happen, nod, more, port, offer, last, honest, laugh, have, carry, text, ease, exactly, pound, stopped, cold, rather, feeling, happening, potato, cookery.
8. Transcribe the following words and explain the reading rules.
Room, roast, rose, record, regular, railway, really, Mary, married, drive, true, dressing, fever, different, America, modern, mother, curly, for, story, work, car, part, four, luck, news, along, gladly, flushed, was, West, house, this, so, red, them, tell, dust, follow, bell, about, these, sound, rung.
9. Transcribe the following words and explain the reading rules.
Again, upon, cigarette, obey, about, confess, condition, worker, nurse, balcony, finally, surprise, among, money, just, funny, lovely, instructor, two, rude, took, one, run, huge, knew, pupils, meaning.