Exercise 1. Read the following words paying special attention to correct pronunciation

Exercise 5. Read the proverbs and learn them.

Finish

1.Man proposes, God disposes.

2.Stones grow old.

3.To know everything is to know nothing.

4.There is no place like home.

5.Little strokes fell great oaks.

Unit 7 [αı]-[eı]-[ɔı]

[αı] -kite, idea, I, my, ride, right, sight, oblige, tie, rye, rhyme, night, bright, time, bye, by, kind, like, life, nine, pie, lie, nine, die, mild, wife, rice, mice, while, shy, sky, child, white.

[eı] -pace, eight, weight, sane, waste, late, lain, may, way, famous, lace, face, fame, stay, bay, game, cape, shape, again, ray, lay, rain, sake, rake, vain, say, day, gain, take, make, pain, pay.

[ɔı] -roister, join, boy, joy, point, hoist, hoick, joint, enjoy, employ, coin, coif, adroit, soil, destroy, toy, oil, voice, choice, moist, spoil, foil, coy, Roy.

[αı]-[eı] -rise-raise, file-fail, light-late, might-mate, isle-ale, while-whale, bike-bake, white-wait, rice-race, like-lake, lied-laid.

[ɔı]- [αı] -boy-buy, toy-tie, oil-isle, voice-vice, Roy-rye, point-pint, foil-file, poise-pies.

Exercise 2. Read the following shopping list. You are going to buy the items with the [eı] sound. Underline only the items containing the vowel [eı].

1. steak lettuce pastry cereal

2. bread raisins melon bananas

3. cake tomatoes bacon baking soda

4. potatoes crackers peas ice cream

5. grapes celery gravy carrots

6. toothpaste peas squash paper plates

Exercise 3. Underline the words with the [eı] sound. Practice reading the dialogue aloud.

(Mr. Grey is waiting at the railway station for a train)

Mr. Grey: This train’s late! I’ve been waiting here for ages.

Porter: Which train?

Mr. Grey: The 8.18 t Baker Street.

Porter: The 8.18? I’m afraid you’ve made a mistake, sir.

Mr. Grey: A mistake? My timetable says: Baker Street train – 8.18.

Porter: Oh no. The Barker Street train leaves at 8.08.

Mr. Grey: At 8.08?

Porter: They changed the timetable at the end of April. It’s the first of May today.

Mr. Grey: Changed it? May I see the new timetable? What does it say?

Porter: It says: Baker Street train – 8.08.

Mr. Grey: Oh no, you’re right. The train isn’t late. I am.

Exercise 4. Listen to the words. Underline the one word in each group that is pronounced with the diphthong [eı].

Example: You hear hat hot hate

You underline 1 2 3

1. 1 2 3

2. 1 2 3

3. 1 2 3

4. 1 2 3

5. 1 2 3

6. 1 2 3

7. 1 2 3

8. 1 2 3

9. 1 2 3

10. 1 2 3

Exercise 5. Read the words aloud. Underline the word in each group that does not contain diphthong [αı].

Example: pie line rich rice

1. price crime pity pile

2. mind kind spinning finding

3. sign high fright freight

4. list cite aisle cried

5. gyp bye cry reply

6. niece nice knife night

7. style failed filed fire

8. pretty try resign good-bye

9. ice eye aim aisle

10. flight fine duty dying

Exercise 6. Read the following words. Underline the word in each group that is not pronounced with [ɔı].

Example: joy join enjoy jaunt

1.voice avoid void vows

2.noise nose hoist annoy

3.towel toy toil spoil

4.Detroit Illinois St. Croix New York

5.oil oily foil owl

6.boil broil bow boy

7.poison pounce point appoint

8.poise Joyce Joan soil

9.coil coal coy coin

10.lobster sirloin oyster moist

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