R. Southey

Read the words in bold type explaining the reading rules of

them. Read the poem observing the reading rules.

English for foreigners

I take it you already know

Of tough and bough and cough and dough?

Others may stumble but not you,

On hiccough, thorough, lough and through.

Well done! And now you wish, perhaps,

To learn of less familiar traps?

Beware of heard, a dreadful word

That looks like beard and sounds like bird,

And dead: it's said like bed, not bead -

For goodness sake don't call it 'deed'!

Watch out for meat and great and threat.

(They rhyme with suite and straight and debt.)

Amoth is not a moth in mother,

Nor both in bother, broth in brother,

And here is not a match for there,

Nor dear and fear for bear and pear.

And then there's dose and rose and choose.

And cork and work and card and ward.

And font and front and word and sword,

And do and go and thwart and cart -

Come, come, I've hardly made a start!

A dreadful language? Man alive!

I'd mastered it when I was five!

Read the poem.

Time when work is done is leisure,

Fill up with useful pleasure.

Accidental, accident,

Sound the g in ignorant.

Relative, but a relation,

Then say creature but creation.

Say the a in gas quite short,

Bought remember rhymes with thwart,

Drought must always rhyme with bout,

In daughter leave the gh out.

Please remember, say towards

Just as if it rhymed with boards.

Weight’s like wait, but not like height,

Which should always rhyme with might.

Sew is just the same as so,

Tie a ribbon in a bow.

When you meet a queen you bow,

Which again must rhyme with how.

In perfect English make a start.

Learn this little rhyme by heart.

Can you think of a rhyme for: pleasure Ex. pleasure – treasure

relation bought – brought

bout

short

might

start

how

boards

Краткий справочник. Правила чтения английских слов.

Согласные

c + e, i, y [s] cell, face

+ a, o, u, согл. [k] can, act

ch [t∫] chief, chance, each

[k] school, chaos, echo

[∫] machine, chef

g + e, i, y [X] age, giant

+ a, o, u, согл. [g] game, gun

gh [-] high, though

[f] laugh, enough

[g] ghetto

ght [t] eight, night

[ft] draught

kn- [n] know, knife

-mb [m] bomb, climb

nc [ŋk] bank

nk uncle

nx anxious

-ng [ŋ] king, long, thing

-ng- [ŋg] single, angle

ng + e, i, y [nX] change

+ e, i, y [ŋg] finger, anger

ph [f] phone, phrase

qu [kw] queen, quick

[k] unique

tch [t∫] match, watch

th [q] both, thing

[ð] they, soothe

wh + o [h] who, whole

+ гласная [w] what, white

wr [r] write, wrong, wrap

x [gz] exact, example

[ks] expect

Гласные

	Закрытый слог	Открытый слог
a e i y o u	[æ] cat [e] end [i] big [i] myth [כ] dog [Λ] cup	[ei] take [i:] be [ai] line [ai] my [ou] no [u:] rule

Слог 3 типа

a [a:] park

e [Ə:] her