2. Прочитайте следующие слова. Помните, что их значение может зависеть от правильного произноше­ния долгих и кратких звуков.

[i:]	lead	wheat	cheeks	seek	feel	neat	eat
[i]	lid	wit	chicks	sick	fill	knit	it
[а:]	lark	charm	barn	harm	cart	dark	bard
[Л]	luck	chum	bun	hum	cut	duck	bud
[и:]	pool	fool	food	lose	cool	wound	boot
[и]	pull	full	foot	look	cook	would	book
[э:]	chalk	court	port	horse	board	raw	walk
М	chock	cot	pot	hostel	body	wrong	wash

3. Сопоставьте произношение звуков [i:], [i], [е], [эе], [э:]. Обратите внимание на разницу в написании и значении слов.

ЕЮ	- И	[i:]	" [e]	[i=]	- M	[e] -	[*]
teen	tin	see	set	we	were	men	man
heat	hit	meal	melt	see	sir	bed	bad
heal	hill	meet	met	team	term	pen	pan
beat	bit	read	red	weak	work	send	sand
peak	pick	lead	led	teen	turn	lend	land
seat	sit	even	event	niece	nurse	then	than

4. Сопоставьте произношение звуков [а:], [о:], [л], [э].

[a:]	- M	[a:] -	[Э]	[л] "	[0]
car	core	sharp	shop	sun	song
star	store	last	lost	cut	cot
far	for	heart	hot	none	non
mark	more	clerk	clock	dull	doll
park	pork	dark	dock	but	bottle
farm	form	bark	box	front	from

5. Сопоставьте произношение монофтонгов и диф­тонгов.

[e] -	[ei]	[*] -	[ei]	[x] -	[ai]	[i] -	[ai]
men	main	tack	take	hat	hight	pin	pine
pen	pain	sat	sate	fat	fight	film	fine
wet	wait	cat	Kate	sad	side	myth	my
sell	sail	fat	fate	man	mine	fifth	five
pepper	paper	plan	plane	dad	died	typical type
M -	[oi]	[o] -	[ou]	[л] -	[ou]	[9:] -	[ou]
pot	point	not	no	love	low	burn	bone
spot	spoilt	god	go	done	dole	turn	tone
John	join	hot	home	son	snow	learn	alone
toss	toys	stock	stone	London lonely		curly	cosy
joy	joint	rock	robe	another alone		first	phone
olive	oil	top	tope	front	froze	work	woke

Упражнения в чтении

1. Прочитайте следующие служебные слова, учиты­вая возможность произнесения гласной через ней­тральный звук:

a, and, as, at, can, could, does, for, from, must, of, shall, some, the, them, to, was, were, would.

2. Отработайте произношение определенного the [дэ], [di] и неопределенного а [э], an [эп] артиклей в разных позициях.

a planet, a theatre, a historic event, a foreign visitor, а busy street, a small house, a nice flat, a clever man;

an arm, an engineer, an experiment, an address, an ex­ample, an answer, an interesting book, an absent-minded man;

the distance, the ballet, the cheapest, the same, the whole, the rest, the seventeenth, the century, the Volga, the United States;

the University, in the evening, the assistance, the elder son, the early years, the adults, on the agenda.

3. Прочитайте слова, обращая внимание на произ­ношение гласных букв в ударном и заударном слоге.

а - factory, planet, animal, attack, attempt

i - limit, building, similar, activity

e - medicine, enemy, entrance, editor, centre, pencil

о - story, orange, economy, column

u/y - money, Monday, study, upper, sunny, colour

4. Прочитайте следующие предложения, обращая внимание на произношение дифтонгов, долгих и крат­ких гласных. Найдите их русские эквиваленты.

Seeing is believing.

Greek meets Greek.

On Monday we start Russian classes.

The less men think the more they talk.

Fortune favours fools.

First come first served.

Come and look at the monkeys.

Put the cups in the cupboard.

It is written in simple English, isn't it?

Dad cannot catch that.

Mary's hair is fair.

Cromer is quite a quiet place.

It really seems to be clearing.

During August there were fewer viewers.

Late nights make me tired.

5. Выразительно прочитайте стихотворение.

by Berta R.Hudelson

If many men knew If many men did

What many men know, What many men do,

If many men went The world would be better —

Where many men go, I think so; do you?

Задание для самоконтроля

1. Распределите слова по трем колонкам в зависи­мости от позиционной долготы гласного:

[laik] [fain] [э:] ['kouzi] [frAnt] ['pensl] [ski:] [kAt] [went] [ti:6] [did] [rouz] [leit] [6i:m] [fond] [fo:m] [ka:] [si:] [frej] [neim] ['эирэп] [du:] [ais] [buk] [fog] ['bAta] [swit/] [fo:k] [ fo:ti] [tram] [best] [fast] [ti:t/3] [ri:d] [kaep] [dres] [tent] [ta:n] [taun] [meik].