Tongue-Twisters

/∫/: She sells sea-shells on the sea shore,

The shells she sells are sea-shells I am sure.

Phoneme /p/ — voiceless bilabial plosive.

Pan, play, cap, rope, happy, open, camping, help.

Не произносится /p/ в словах: psalm, psychology, pneumonia, pseudonym, receipt, cupboard, raspberry, coup, corps.

Упражнение А12.

/p/

pi pet

piz pæt

pın pip — tıp

pen dip — dıp

pn lip — lıp

pınz ∫ip — ∫ıp

penz

pænz

Tongue-Twisters

/p/: Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled pepper;

A peck of pickled pepper Peter Piper picked;

If Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled pepper,

Where’s the peck of pickled pepper Peter Piper picked?

Phoneme /b/ — voiced bilabial plosive.

Ban, blade, cab, robe, rubber, baby, number, bulb.

Hе произносится /b/ в словах: debt, doubt, subtle, lamb, comb, dumb, climb, bomb, plumber.

Упражнение А13.

/b/

bi bæd

bid nıb

bin eb

ben læb

bel nıbz

bed ebz

bet læbz

Tongue-Twisters

/b/: Betty Botter bought, some butter,

But, she said, the butter’s bitter;

If I put it in my batter

It will make my batter bitter,

But a bit of better butter

Will make my batter better.

So she bought a bit of butter

Better than her bitter butter,

And she put it in her batter

And the batter was not bitter,

So ‘twas better Betty Botter bought a bit of better butter.

Упражнение А14.

/p/ — /b/

pi — bi	piz — biz
pın — bın	pıt — bıt
pet — bet	pen — ben
pæn — bæn	tıp — nıb
læp — læb	tıps — nıbz
læps — læbz

Упражнение А15.

/i/ — /ı/ — /e/ — /æ/

did — dıd — ded — dæd

bid — bıd — bed — bæd

bin — bın — ben — bæn

tin — tın — ten — tæn

bit — bıt — bet — bæt

pit — pıt — pet — pæt

sit — sıt — set — sæt

Phoneme /m/ — voiced bilabial nasal.

Make, some, simmer, smile, socialism, autumn, diaphragm, comb.

Упражнение А16.

/m/

mi dim

mil sim

mit dım

mıd temz

mes sæm

me∫ læm

mæs læmz

Provebs and Saings

/m/: Never jump your fences till you meet them.

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

Упражнение А17.

/s/ — /∫/

si — ∫i sit — ∫it

sıp — ∫ıp sın — ∫ın

selz — ∫elz

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

Упражнение А18.

/s/ — /z/

pis — piz sil — zil

sıp — zıp sed — zed

æs — æz

Упражнение А19.

Word Rhythm

′sıti ′eni

′bızi ′meni

′pıti ′tedi

′sıli ′mæsız

′lıli ′æ∫ız

′mınıt ′læ∫ız

′lının ′dædi

Provebs and Saings

/s/: Satan finds some mischief still for idle hands to do.

Seldom seen, soon forgotten.

Sticks and stones will break my bones, but names will never hurt me.

Правило позиционной долготы сонантов

Долгота английского сонанта зависит от позиции:

1. Сонанты произносятся максимально долго в позиции абсолютного конца:

bill, mill, dean, clean, firewall, storm, fine, man, crime, emblem

2. Cонанты произносятся несколько короче перед слабозвонкими согласными:

field, orange, calls, emerald, Finland, Dortmund

3. Cонанты произносятся кратко перед глухими согласными:

bank, fils, finance, finch, dopant, don’t, cronk, point, emergent

Phoneme /n/ — voiced alveolar nasal.

No, son, sinner, knock, snack, sign, gnaw, pneumonia.

Hе произносится /n/ в словах: autumn, hymn, condemn, column, damn.

Упражнение А20.