Сочетания гласных

oi, oy	[ כו ]	soil, boy, toy, oil
	[ u: ]	moon, too, spoon, room, proof
oo	[ u ] 1	book, took, good, foot, food
	[ ^ ]	blood, flood
ou	[ au ]	proud, out, house, ground
ow	[ au ] 2	town, down; how, now
	[u ] 3	grow, low

Note:

1. перед k и в словах good, foot.

2. в середине слова и в словах how, now

3. в конце слова

Запомните особые случаи чтения гласных

a + n, f, l, s + согласная	[a:]	plant, staff, half, craft, pass;
a + th	[a:]	path
a + l +l(k)	[ כ:]	talk, all, pall
au, aw, war	[ כ:]	cause, saw, war, award
wa	[ כ ]	was, want
r, l, j, + u	[u:]	true, blue, June
y	[ j ]	yes, yellow (в начале слова)
	[ ו ]	very, policy (в конце слов с двумя и более слогами)
wor	[ : ]	work, word
ear	[ : ]	heard, learn (перед согласной)

Exercises

1. Прочитайте слова, обращая внимание на сочетание гласных и согласных.

town, how, proud, boys, look, last, plant, grow, now, blood, oil, brown, soil, pass, half, low, took, point, tooth, waste, down, yes, cause, war, word, look, yellow, lady, family, word, saw, knew, sound, ward.

2. Расположите слова в соответствии с типами чтения.

I	II	III	IV
make	map	sort	care
…	…	…	…

type, finger, tyre, murder, letter, sand, file, far, lie, bird, mere, fair, got, her, during, middle, blue, agent, free, luck.

3. Продолжите ряд из предложенных ниже слов.

	[כ:]	autumn, …
	[a:]	part, …
	[wכ]	watch, ..

1. autumn, told, caught, war, cause, word, born, saw, bottle, for, was, pause, fall, talk, all, border, sole, sun, corn, daughter, work, hot, chalk;

2. part, father, bag, path, lamp, son, plant, glass, but, classroom, come, our, last, half, pass, staff, latter, run;

3. watch, work, want, wall, walk, worse, what, was, world, ward, word, war, wanted

4. Переведите слова и запомните их значение.

friend, woman, man, children, wife, court, crime, law, judge, case, flat, room, house, town, city, book, note, text, exercise, lesson.