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Exercise 1. Practice the pronunciation of the digraphs ‘ее’, ‘ea’, ‘oi’, ‘oy’.

digraphs ‘ее’, ‘ea’	digraphs ‘oi’, ‘oy’
meet feet deed veep banoffee tea bean forehead head death heavy	point coin soil toil moist typhoid doyen foyer coyly cowboy ploy joy

Exercise 2. Transcribe the following words.

Words	Transcription
meet feet deed veep banoffee tea bean forehead head death heavy point coin soil toil moist typhoid doyen foyer coyly cowboy ploy joy

Exercise 3. Practice the pronunciation of the digraphs ‘ei’, ‘ey’, ‘ou’, ‘ow’.

digraphs ‘еi’, ‘ey’	digraphs ‘ou’, ‘ow’
weight eighty beige veil sovereign prey fey obey grey honey alley	bounty found round couple nervous bow cow how flow show widow

Exercise 4. Transcribe the following words.

Words	Transcription
weight eighty beige veil sovereign prey fey obey grey honey alley bounty found round couple nervous bow cow how flow show widow

Exercise 5. Practice the pronunciation of the digraphs ‘eu’, ‘ew’, ‘au’, ‘aw’.

digraphs ‘еu’, ‘ew’	digraphs ‘au’, ‘aw’
deuce feud heuristic neutrality pew dewy crew drew nephew	bauble daub raucous laudably laugh bawl crawl drawback fawn dawn

Exercise 6. Transcribe the following words.

Words	Transcription
deuce feud heuristic neutrality pew dewy crew drew nephew bauble daub raucous laudably laugh bawl crawl drawback fawn dawn

Exercise 7. Practice the pronunciation of the digraphs ‘oa’, ‘oe’, ее+r’, ‘ai+r’.

digraphs ‘oa’, ‘oe’	digraphs ‘ee+r’, ‘ai+r’
boast load soak foal coal cocoa woe sloe foe hoe roe doe toe	peerage sheer veer steer beer bairn dairy fair laird stair

Exercise 8. Transcribe the following words.

Words	Transcription
boast load soak foal coal cocoa woe sloe foe hoe roe doe toe peerage sheer veer steer beer bairn dairy fair laird stair

Exercise 9. Practice the pronunciation of the digraphs ‘ei+r’, ‘ea+r’, ‘oa+r’, ‘oo+r’, ‘ou+r’.

digraphs ‘ei+r’, ‘ea+r’, ‘oa+r’	digraphs ‘oo+r’, ‘ou+r’
heir their fear shear rear dear boar coarse soar roar board	boor moor floor doorbell poor our louse house labour honour

Exercise 10. Transcribe the following words.

Words	Transcription
heir their fear shear rear dear boar coarse soar roar board boor moor floor doorbell poor our louse house labour honour

Lesson 14

The connected speech and their features

Lead in

Pronounce the following words and word combinations and try to understand the changes in their articulation:

Word and word combinations	Changes in their articulation
clip board
good bye
set back
knock down
try
twinkle
some of them
after all
for instance
handsome
firstly
very often

Discuss in your group:

1. 
   How are these words pronounced?
   
2. 
   What changes can be existed in their pronunciation?
   
3. 
   Do you know the names of these changes? If yes, tell your group.
   

Rule 1: Two neighbouring consonants within a word or at word boundaries often influence each other that one sound becomes similar to or even identical with the articulation of the other one. This phenomenon is called assimilation.

One bear one cap

Does she horse shoe

Try dwell

TASK 1. Pronounce the following words and phrases observing the assimilation of the consonants:

wealthy the tenth although

breath cut throat at dinner

keep going read the rule at times

TASK 2. Pronounce the following word with the consonant clusters:
[kl]: close, cloth, claim, clerk, class, clasp

[pl]: place, play, please, plastic, platform, playwright

[kr]: cram, crash, crises, crazy, cream, cricket, crime, cripple, cry

[pr]: practice, praise, preface, press, prefix, predicate, promise, present

[r]: thread, three, thrill, throat, through, throw, thrust

[tr]: trace, track, trade, traffic, tragedy, train, tram, transitive, try, tremble

[kw]: quick, quarter, quiet, squash, queer, question, quit, quiz, quote

[lw]: languages, linguist, liquid

[tw]: twelve, twenty, twilight, twin, twinkle, twist

[sw]: swim, swallow, swan, sweet, sweat, swift

Rule 2: When a word ends in consonant clusters and the next begins with a vowel sound, the final consonant is pronounced as a part of next syllable: