A) with the ending -(e)s

Reading of Endings -(e)s, -(e)d

Ex. 5 Read the proverbs. Explain the rules of reading.

1. To let the cat out of the bag.

2. Appearances are deceitful.

3. The devil is not so black as it is painted.

4. The tongue is not steel, yet it cuts.

5. To stew in one’s own juice.

6. Well begun is half done.

7. The game is not worth the candle.

Ex. 6 Add the word according to the rule:

1. career, car, can, capital,...

2. century, centre, cite, Cyprus,...

3. gallery, gamble, garlic, governmental,...

4. gentle, general, gibber, gymnasium,...

The ending -(e)s of plural forms of nouns and of the 3^rd singular present indefinite of verbs is read

	how	when
a)	[s]	after voiceless consonants;
b)	[z]	after vowels and voiced consonants;
c)	[ız]	after [s], [z], [∫], , [t∫], .

The ending- (e)d of regular forms of verbs is read

	how	when
a)	[d]	after vowels and voiced consonants;
b)	[t]	after voiceless consonants;

c)

[ıd]

after [t], [d].

Ex. 7 Read the words according to the rule:

inches, hands, chiefs, shoes, maps, boxes, safes, dishes, machines, roofs, classes, wives, babies, benches, books, bottles, boys, brings, burns, buzzes, cages, capes, cars, catches, cats, checks, clashes, clings, clocks, crooks, dates, dishes, doctors, dresses, edges, faces, feeds, fetches, fifths, fingers, foxes, gains, gnats, hooks, hopes, horses, jobs, kites, knives, knows, ladies, leaps, lies, matches, moths, noses, nurses, pages, papers, parts, phones, pies, picks, pipes, places, pumps, roses, seats, sites, skies, sofas, swims, taxes, teachers, thinks, ties, trays, wages, waves, weeks, wives, writers.

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