Graphic Equivalents of the /e/ Phoneme

Exercise 5.

Proverbs and Sayings

Exercise А4.

Exercise 4.

Прочитайте предложения, обращая внимание на разницу
в длительности гласных в подчеркнутых словах.

1. Mary always hit Bill. Mary always hid Bill.

2. It’s a Bic pencil. It’s a big pencil.

3. My scarf is ripped. My scarf is ribbed.

4. She knows they’re rich. She knows their ridge.

5. Where’s the cat’s feet? Where’s the cat’s feed?

6. There are many leaks now. There are many leagues now.

7. They need peace. They need peas.

Phoneme /s/ — voiceless alveolar fricative (fortis).

Sin, bus, mess, city, conceal, science, states, tax, intersperse, Macedonia, Jessop.

Не произносится в словах /s /: island, isle, aisle, debris, bourgeois, Illinois, corps.

Phoneme /z/ — voiced alveolar fricative (lenis).

Is, was, has, zoo, buzz, mesmerise, misalliance, disease, easy, eyes, cousin, dogs, plays, moves, baptism, scissors, dessert, wise, to use, Xerox.

/s/ — /z/

si	sid	niz—nis
sil	sit
zil	sıt

/s/: No man is wise at all times. No man can serve two masters.

Nothing succeeds like success.

Soft skin, silky voice, sleepy eyes, sort of slow, sexy smile.

Six little mice sat down to spin; pussy passed by and she peeped in.

The sixth sheep of the sixth sheikh is sick.

Прочитайте вслух и запишите на магнитофон следующие предложения. Обратите внимание на разницу в звучании английского окончания -s.

1. Doris hate s doing the laundry. She realise s that five weeks have passed since her last trip to the Laundromat.

2. There are pile s of clothe s in the closet s, the sheet s and towel s are dirty, she’s been wearing the same pair of trousers for seven day s, and she doesn’t have any clean stocking s or blouse s left.

3. Doris think s about it while she watche s one of her favourite TV show s.

4. She wishe s she didn’t have to do such chore s. Then she open s a magazine, turn s the page s, and trie s to study.

5. The phone ring s: one of Doris’ s friend s remind s her about Dolly’ s party tonight.

6. She can’t go to the party unless she washe s one of her dresse s.

7. Doris stuff s all her clothe s into bag s, strip s the bed and pull s the pillowcase s off the pillow s.

8. She goe s through the apartment s, picking up everything in sight, grab s two boxe s of detergent, and her key s, and close s the door behind her.

9. She arrive s at the laundromat, carrie s in all her belonging s, and searche s for some empty machine s.

Phoneme /e/ — open-mid ( close-mid) frontunrounded vowel (lax),
first element of English diphthongs /eı, e\/.

e b e dlam, cl e mency, e lement, e xercise, f e tch, E lba, L e banon,
E ssex

a a ny, a nything, m a ny, a te, Th a mes

ea d ea f, d ea lt, f ea ther, d ea dline, w ea ther, br ea kfast, j ea lous,
L ea mington

ie fr ie nd, fr ie ndless, fr ie ndship

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