Test II

Test I

1. Read the words and explain the reading of stressed vowels:

Language, hunting, Friday, plate, sentence, primary, stupid, teeth.

2. Transcribe the words:

Fibre, April, going, render, family, avid, cavity, facet, lady, fever, over, funeral.

3. Find the odd word:

a) little, silly, fiddle, middle, quite

b) tragic, pathetic, paste, falls

c) ruling, tulip, truthful, trustee, numeral

4. Train the reading of the sounds [ æ ],[I],[i:]:

a) Can you imagine an imaginary menagery manager, imagining managing an imaginary menagerie?

b) I slit the sheet, the sheet I slit, and on the slitted sheet I sit.

5. Read the poem, find the word with stressed vowels in their short meaning and write them down:

The Rainy Day.

by H. W. Longfellow

The day is cold, and dark, and dreary:

It rains, and the wind is never weary;

The vine still clings to the mouldering wall,

But at every gust the dead leaves fall,

And the day is dark and dreary.

6. Read the proverbs, explain the reading of the underlined words:

1) Ask no questions and you’ll be told no lies.

2) There’s no smoke without fire.

3) Nothing ventured, nothing have.

4) Will you still need me, will you still feed me when I’m sixty -four?

7. Divide the words into syllables:

^|Apricot, ^|spindle, _׀tribu^׀lation, _׀intro^׀duction, con^׀glomerate, ^׀raga_׀muffin.

8. Divide the words into two columns:

1) words with stressed vowels in their alphabetical meanings;

2) words with vowels in their short meanings.

Television, nice, fever, bypass, under, hunting, boxing, refuse, twilight, letter, bicycle.

1. Divide into groups and transcribe these words:

Worry, student, apricot, oppose, novel, after, magic, limit, visit, excuse, sentence, bypass, money, cinema, never, crying, stupid, numeral, uncle, Monday, war, river, panic, staff, hunting, transport.

primary alphabetical meaning	primary short meaning	secondary meaning

2. Find the odd word:

- palace, better, visit, apricot, palace

- stupid, trying, Friday, April, silly

- student, numeral, never, crying, being

- doing, hunting, uncle, cinema, magic

- panic, limit, novel, letter, fiddle.

3. Find disyllabic and polysyllabic words in which the vowel letter has its alphabetical meaning:

Our jobs, our possessions and even the areas in which we live become a matter of competition. We make out that our jobs and possessions are somehow better or more desirable than other people’s and we claim that our country, town or village is the best, the biggest or the most friendly or the most civilized in the world. Are we interested in proving our superiority, or is it that we take a sadistic delight in proving that some poor fellow being is inferior to us?

4. Transcribe these words:

Archery, point, cricket, victory, golf, runner-up, water polo, racket, rugby, ring, swimming, championship, spectator, figure-skating, fencing.

5. Transcribe and explain the rules of reading in the next words:

No Enemies.

by R. Mackey

You have n o enemies, you say

Alas, m y friend, the boast is poor.

He wh o has mingled in the fray of duty

That the brave end u re

M u st have made foes.

If you have n o ne –

Small is the work that you have d o ne.

You’ve h i t no traitor on the hip,

You’ve dashed no cup from perjured l i ps

You’ve n e ver turned the wrong to right,

You’ve been a c o ward in the fight.

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