3. Polysyllabic words.

a) Stressed position: 'iron, 'ibis, 'idle, 'eyelashes, 'eyelids, 'miner, 'silent, 'frighten, minus, 'bicycle; define, confine, exile, excite, dislike, decide, besides, alive, divide, coincide.

b) Unstressed position:

sunshine, 'sometimes, missile, 'civilize, 'appetite, 'crocodile, 'still life, 'pen­knife, fragile, meanwhile; idea, ideal, identical, identify, ideology, biological, digest (v.), dilate, digress, dilute.

4. Geographical names.

Altai, Apennines [ ]

5. Proverbs, sayings, idiomatic expressions.

1. Time flies.

2. Mind your eye.

3) And pigs might fly.

4) A stitch in time saves nine.

5) Out of sight out of mind.

6) Out of the frying pan into the fire.

[əu]

1. Spelling.

-o- oh, so, home, roll, bold, most, potato, coexist, folk, cold, told,

-oa- toast, oak, boat, oath,

-ou- dough, though, shoulder;

-ow- know, low, fellow, owe, own;

-ое- roe, toe, poem.

Also: broach, sew, beau [ ], bureau [ ], yeoman.

2. Polysyllabic words.

a) Stressed position: shoulder, 'ocean, 'odious, 'odorant, 'opal, 'over, odor, oboe [ ]; suppose, provoke, explode, control, console, intone, decode, denote.

b) Unstressed position: 'window, 'widow, potato, 'yellow, 'cargo, tomato, 'photo, 'elbow; 'oasis, po'etic, o'bese, odium, coerce, co'here.

3. Geographical names.

Angola [ ], Arizona, Bar­celona [ ], Bordeaux [bo’dəu], Buffalo, Chicago, Chomolungma [tjəuməu'luŋma:], Cologne [kə’ləun], Congo, Czechslovakia [ ], Do­ver, Ethiopia [ ], Folkestone [‘fəukstən], Glasgow, Gobi [‘gəubi], 'Harrow, Kioto

[ ], Oak­land, Ohio [ ], Oklahoma [ ], Orinoco [ ], Oslo [‘ozləu], Poland, Porto-Novo [ ], Rhodes, Rome, Seoul [ ], Yokohama [jəukəu’ha:ma], Togo, Tokyo [ ].

4. Proverbs, sayings, idiomatic expressions.

1. Nobody home. (When a person is crazy.)

2. There's no knowing.

3. It's a cold coal to blow at.

4. Stones grow old.

5. It's no joke.

6. Don't poke your nose into the other people's affairs.

7. As you sow you shall mow.

8. When in Rome, do as the Romans do.

Limerick

There was an Old lady of Harrow,

Whose views were exceedingly narrow.

At the end of her paths

She built two bird baths

For the different sexes of sparrow.

[uə]

-u+ r- fury, during, pure, cure;

-oor- poor, moor, boor;

-our- tour, tourist;

-ue- fuel, cruel, duel:

-ewer- fewer, newer;

-uer- bluer, truer;

-ual- habitual;

-uous- virtuous, tortuous.

Also: steward, puerile [ ], doer.

1. Monosyllabic words.

Tour, sure, poor, moor, brewer, doer, boor, cure, fewer, lure, viewer.

2. Polysyllabic words.

a) Stressed position: fury, 'curious, 'surely, 'during, 'skewer, 'fluent, 'steward, 'ewer, cruelly, security.

b) Unstressed position: 'usual, 'mutual, eventual, 'influent, 'confluent, contour, ambiguous, con­tinuous; neurological, curator, superfluous, promiscuous.

3. Geographical names.

Amur [ ], Bujumbura [budgəm'buərə]; Cherbourg [‘t∫eəbuəg], Cu­racao [kjuərə’səu], Europe, Honduras [ ], Missouri [ ], Murmansk [ ], Nicaragua

[ ], Papua, Zurich [‘zjuərik], the Urals.

4. Proverbs, sayings, idiomatic expressions.

1) What can't be cured, must be endured.

2) Curiosity killed the cat.

3. For sure.

4. Curiosity is incurable.

[oi]

1. Spelling.

-oi- oil, noise, boil; negroid [ ]

-oy- boy, toy, enjoy.

2. Monosyllabic words.

Oil, toil, coin, loin, soil, foil, broil, spoil.

3. Polysyllabic words.

a) Stressed position: loiter, poison, 'ointment, 'toilet, 'hoity-toity, boisterous, annoy, destroy, anoint, enjoy, employ.

b) Unstressed position: school-boy, 'cowboy, 'convoy, standpoint, asteroid, 'celluloid.

4. Geographical names.

Boulogne [bu’loin], Detroit, Hanoi, Illinois [ ], Troy.