1. Rule rude brute true

ruler prudent brutal scruple

drew grew threw screw blew flew chew

fruit bruise cruise cruiser

blue clue flue glue

flute plume June jute juice

rood - rude room - rule soon - June too - true bloom - blue gloom - glue group - grew Scrooge - screw choose - chew

dew - drew few - flew cue - clue use - ruse knew - crew tune - June suit - fruit humour rumour duty ruby

jut - jute plum - plume truck - truce rubber - ruby drummer - rumour supple - scruple

grew - grey threw - three chew - cheat

grow - grew - grown throw - threw - thrown blow - blew - blown know - knew - known fly - flew - flown draw - drew - drawn

2. Old told sold hold fold bold

child wild mild kind find blind

right light night knight bright slight

high sigh nigh eight weight straight

soled - sold hole - hold write - right way - weigh

mined - mind mile - mild mite - might wait - weight

brig - bright lit - light chill - child will - wild

fined - find line - blind site - sight strait – straight sit – sight milk – mild

odd old cod cold god gold bright

slightly brightly highly kindly boldly eighty

finding fighting lightning frighten straighten golden

lighter brighter higher neighbour holder colder

3. All ball call fall small wall salt false talk walk chalk stalk

calm palm half halve

chance dance France branch

can't shan't plant grant

pass class glass grass

past last fast vast

ask task clasp grasp

shaft staff bath path

shall

smaller taller falling fallen walker talker talking chalky

planter dancer dancing

faster master passing glassy

father rather after nasty

grass - grasp class - clasp mast - mask pass - path last - lath blast - bath cast - can't shaft - shan't glass - glance bath - ball fast - fall ask - all half - hall calm - call palm - pall stalk - stork walk - fork chalk - cork calves - carves calf - scarf alms - arms

past - part cast - cart bask - bark

call – car fall – far stall - star

bale – ball - tall ale - all

lace – lance face – dance trace – France

plan – plant can - can't clan – glance

hand - shan't grand – grant brand – branch

fat – fast vat –vast gap - gasp

sat – salt mat - malt hat – halt

hall - haul small – maul false – fault

salt – saw call – caw squall - squaw

task – talk tall - staff stalk - stall

Kent fist grunt stuff

vest - vast pest - past shift - shaft drift - draft shunt - shan't dunce – dance must - mast tusk - task

till tell tall ill ell all

hill hell hull hall

list lest lost lust last

4. head bread dead spread stead heading spreading ready steady heed - head breed - bread deed - dead

read = reed read = red

lead =Leed(s) lead = led

5. learn heard earth earn learner learning early

hear - heard clear - learn ear - earth

herd - heard hard - burn learn - barn

perch - search arch - fern earn - yarn

early nearly

6. thought brought bought ought taught caught naught aught naughty daughter slaughter

naught - nought aught - ought taught - thought

fort – fought sort - sought bout taut taught

out - ought bout - bought rout - wrought

think - thought - thought bring - brought – brought teach - taught - taught catch - caught caught 7. full pull push bull bush put

full - fill - fall - fell bull - bill - ball - bell pull - pulp - pulse bull bulk bulb bulge push plush bush blush brush

put - cut put - shut put - but put - nut

window elbow Moscow pillow yellow fellow follow hollow shallow tallow mallow swallow motto photo cargo also cocoa costume perfume virtue rescue

go - cargo bow - elbow low - shallow cue - rescue fellow - seller pillow - pillar solo - solar elbow - Elba willow - villa photo - quota wall - swallow tall - tallow shall - shallow

LESSON FOUR SECTION XIII. Words of Three and More Syllables

Syllable Division. Rule of Stress

I. Read aloud, paying attention to the vowel-sounds in the stressed syllable.

Mine 'miner 'mineral crime 'criminal wine 'vinegar 'minor 'minimal cave 'cavity grave 'gravity 'penal 'penalty

'numeral 'funeral 'unity 'scrutiny 'rudiment

II. Read aloud, stressing according to the general rule.

NOTE 1: The syllable following the stressed one contains the sound [I];

President, incident, continent, compliment, element, emigrant, institute, attribute, officer, capital, radical, cardinal, principal, elegant, elephant, sentiment, domino, tragedy, comedy, family, skeleton, cylinder, minister, article, practical, technical, chemical, physical, critical, typical.

NOTE 2: The syllable following the stressed one contains the sounds [ə], [1] or [n]:

General, interval, interview, gentleman, settlement, permanent, conference, absolute, calendar, Canada, Germany, Italy, colony, history, industry, energy, tendency, parliament, ornament, spec­tacle, cavalry.

NOTE 3: The syllable before the stressed one contains the sound [i]; in the syllable following the stressed one the letter i stands for [i], the letter u for [ju:]; all other letters stand for [ə], [1] or [n].

Contrary, summary, factory, victory, memory, mercury, deli­very, chemistry, unity, intensity, simplicity, quantity, quality, property, poverty, certainty, constancy, emergency, discrepancy, scrutiny, obstacle, principle, syllable, suitable, sensible, sen­sibly, visible, visibly, invisible, possible, possibly, impossible, probable, probably, improbable, remarkable, remarkably, responsible, indispensable, animal, hospital, medical, numeral, difficult development, rudiments, impediment, accident, consonant, differen insignificant, significance, citizen, customer, editor, afterward, similar, singular, formula, Africa, camera, opera.

NOTE 4: In the following words, the unstressed syllable following the stressed syllable contains the sound [i].

Cinema, enemy, complement, supplement, subsequent, consequence, interpreter, messenger.

III. certain certainly open openly recent recently different differently general generally permanent permanently similar similarly regular regularly absolute absolutly

LESSONS FIVE TO SIX SECTION XIV.

Words of Two and More Syllables

Unstressed Syllables. Syllable Division (Continued)

1. greenish	reddish	boyish	selfish
typist	artist	tactics	traffic
rabbit	summit splendid		hardship
active	native	practice	service
cottage	village	climate	surface
Sunday	always	hockey	turkey
college	ticket	pocket	perfect
eldest	thinnest	latest	shortest
oldest	kindest	highest	tallest
darkness	thickness	illness	madness
careless	hopeless	restless	voiceless
2. careful	skilful	painful	awful
cupful	mouthful	handful	armful
happy happiness		greedy greediness
lazy	laziness	shy	shyness
mercy	merciless	penny	penniless
plenty plentiful		duty	dutiful
3. minus	circus	bonus	August
famous nervous monstrous			ballast
bottom	seldom	freedom	tiresome
velum	item	pilot	hammock

Tom bottom lot pilot mock hammock

us circus gust August last ballast

mate climate face surface age voyage

lie coolie vice service five active

let - bullet jet - budget vest - harvest stress – mistress less - endless nest - thinnest nip - turnip stick - rustic full - skilful

needless - needles sleepless - steeples handless - handles foodless - poodles tactless - tackles pickless - pickles

4. physics panic limit visit solid rapid finish chemist manage palace palate planet volume monstrous value statue menu music unit stupid usage

margin cabin Latin famine habit rabbit finish Finnish Robin bobbin modest oddest image scrimmage value volley

type - typist white - whitish Pole - Polish

physical - physics tropical - tropics radical – radish chemistry - chemist modesty - modest vanity - vanish

palatal - palate timorous - timid banishment – banish creditor - credit visitor - visit cabinet - cabin

Read the following aloud.

Accurate, acid, actively, actress, affricate, aimless, Alice, audit, August, avarice, average, awful, ballast, bandage, banish, barley, basket, bitterness, blackness, blanket, bluntness, boldest, bonus, bottom, bracket, brightest, British, brownish, bulletin, cabbage, cabin, cabinet, candidate, carefully, carelessness, carpet, cartridge, census, cheerful, chemist, childish, chocolate, circus, cloudless, coldest, college, comet, communist, conflict, coolness, credit, critic, cubic, custom, cyclist, damage, darkest, definite, delegate, dentist, discipline, district, dullness, estimate, emblem, faithful, famine, famous, faultless, fearlessness, finish, focus, foolish, freedom, freshness, furnish, generous, gentlest, girlish, goodness, granite, grateful, greyish, habit, hammock, happiness, harmless, hardness, hateful, holiday, hopelessness, humorist, humorous, image, in­definite, indiscriminate, infinitive, inquisitive, instinct, intimate, intricate, item, jacket, kidney, largest, Latin, leadership, lightest, limit, liquid, logic, luggage, lustrous, magic, magistrate, magnet, malice, manage, manager, manuscript, margin, market, mar­vellous, mattress, meanness, medicine, menu, message, mimic, mindful, minimum, minus, moderate, modest, monstrous, music, naughtiness, negative, nervousness, Nicholas, obstinate, office, opposite, orphanage, ostrich, ownership, package, painless, palace, Palate, panic, partridge, peaceful, penniless, physics, pilot, planet, Poisonous, polish, politics, positive, precipice, predicate, predica­te, prejudice, preposterous, primitive, privilege prosperous, radish, random, rapid, rancour, redness, refuge, relative, ridiculous, rivet, Robin, rocket, rubbish, rudeness, sadness, sandwich, savage,

speechless, splendidly, statue, stimulus, stoppage, straight stupid, stylish, suffrage, Swedish, sweetness, swiftness, synonym system, terminus, thankful, timid, tragic, tribute, trolley, tropics, trustful, tulip, tunic, Turkish, ultimate, unit, usage, valley, value, vanish, velum, victim, vigorous, visit, volley, volume, waitress, watchful, weakness, whiteness, willingness, wireless, wonderful, yellowish, yesterday.

LESSON SEVEN SECTION XV

Two Syllable Words and Words of Three and More Syllables. Syllable Division (-r and -rr-)

rare and fine	hear and see	pure and simple	fire and air		more and more
rarer гаrest parent daring vary	hearer merest era hearing weary	purer purest plural during jury	tyrant spiral wiring wiry		Dora porous oral storing story

mere merest pore porous here hero

store story lore glory mare Mary

dating daring smoking storing ruling during

heating hearing filing firing typing tiring

navy vary stony story truly jury

razor rarer ruler purer user juror

sofa Dora Peter era rider hirer

spinal spiral total oral pupil plural

silent spirant stipend tyrant patent parent

starting staring turning during curving curing

sorting storing sterling hearing shirking wiring

army Mary forty story dirty wiry

sharper sharer larger rarer order Dora

burner purer sterner nearer shirker hirer

pardon parent normal oral circle spiral