Нечитаемые (“немые”) согласные в буквосочетаниях

Непроизносимые буквы	Буквосочетание	Пример	Примечание
b	bt, mb	doubt, limb	В конце слова.
g	gn	gnome, sign,
gh	gh, igh, ought	through, right, bought	В конце слова. Исключения: enough, laugh [f].
h	gh, rh, wh	ghost, rhetoric, white	В начале слова.
k	kn	knife
l	lf, ould, alk, olk, lm	half, could, walk, folk, palm
n	mn	hymn
p	pn, pt, ps	pneuma, receipt, psyche
s	sl	island
t	ft, st	often, listen	В середине слова.
w	wr, who	wreck, write, who, whom

Чтение буквосочетаний согласных

Буквосочетание	Чтение	Пример
ng	[]	long, song
nk	[k]	sink, thank

1. Прочитайте слова в транскрипции:

[et], [wet], [gre], [e], [pnt], [bl], [b], [hau], [nau], [blu], [u], [tald], [da], [kut], [a], [da], [au], [lat], [t], [d], [bd], [tu:], [buk], [hf], [sk], [nju:], [sm], [uld].

2. Прочитайте, обращая внимание на чтение диграфов:

a) main, rain, pain, vain, stain, train, blain; day, bay, hay, chay, gay, fay, shay, jay, lay, blay, clay, flay, play, pay, say, ray, tray, stay, way; vein, feint; they;

b) hair, fair, air, pair, stairs;

c) sea, mean, meat, beat, heat, lea, plea, pea, tea, great, break, idea, real; bee, dee, fee, thee, street, jeep, lee, flee, glee, meet, need, green, three, see, tee, fleece, fleet; field, grieve, siege, niece, grief, frieze, die, friend;

d) bread, head, spread, breadth, read, lead;

e) near, shear, clear, hear, tear; beer, deer, cheer, steer;

f) road, load, boat, loan, oak, toad, toast, foam, soap, coal;

g) board, coarse;

h) too, boot, root, noon, doom, food, good, room, foot; book, cook, look, shook;

i) voice, сoil, soil, toil, noise, oil, boil; boy, joy, cloy, hoy, troy;

j) loud, proud, cloud, sound, round, pound, ground, trouble, touch, young;

k) bought, sought, fought, thought, ought, brought.

3. Прочитайте слова, обращая внимание на произношение гласных a, e, i, o в сочетаниях с согласными:

a) all, ball, fall, talk, chalk, walk;

b) haste, taste, waste, range, paste;

c) ask, aft, dance, half, plant, branch, past, glass, fast, mast, grant, calf, slant, mask, task, bath, chance, shaft, craft, draft, class, pass, mass;

d) knew, pew, mew, hew, new, crew, grew, drew, flew;

e) child, kind, find, wild, mild, sign, light, right, sight, wind;

f) town, brown, gown, crowd;

g) low, know, slow, flow;

h) some, love, son, come, glove, month, front;

i) cold, old, sold, bold, Mold.

4. Прочитайте слова, обращая внимание на произношение сочетаний ng, nk:

long, strong, song, sing, fang, hang, hung, king, ring, rang, rung, bank, thank, rank.

5. Прочитайте слова, обращая внимание на нечитаемые согласные:

doubt, comb, sign, gnome, right, bought, limb, through, white, which, half, calf, ghost, knife, chalk, walk, palm, wrack, psyche, often, calm, would, hymn, could, write, whom, should, wrist, when, wrap, light, knew, right, might, gnat, crumb, wrong, bomb, subtle, folk.

6. Прочитайте предложения, обращая внимание на произношение и интонацию:

'Read the  text, please. 'Stand  up! 'Sit  down! 'Go  home. 'Take the  book, please. 'What_is  this? 'What  text_is_this? It's  my book. 'Go to_the  table  and 'take the  book, please. 'What's my  mark? 'Come  here. 'Let him  go.

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