I. Underline the words that contain the vowel:
1. Sheep heap, seek, sick, silk, sack, sleek, leave, leaf, meat, meet, cheeks, steak, stick
2. Ship bit, beat, quick, lick, leek, leak, sin, weed, wit, cat, steak, tip, type, teeth, chilled
3. Pen sense, wheel, bed, will, well, check, mess, gnats, damp, tram, bell, hell, fan, feed
4. Man tanned, tap, tip, bake, nets, tricks, tracks, treks, tram, bus, lad, led, ham, men,
wet
5. Cup ham, dull, doll, son, mum, much, such, sung, sang, shrunk, car, fund, fond,
staff
6. Heart barked, luck, harm, ham, hunt, hut, marred, sum, barn, large, psalm, dark, dust
II. Underline the stressed syllable in the following words:
Southern, mother, charming, evening, chimpanzee, manage, expect, wonderful, fantastic, backwards, marvellous, Begin, cheesecake, Portugal, Olympic, gymnastics, Africa, thirty, America, thirteen, expensive, except, expenditure, Lebanon, Lebanese, Vietnamese, Nepal, extrovert, passengers, contracts, advertising, understand, company, unattractive, photograph, fabulous, Emily, history, New York, an onion field, a bus company
III. give the phonetic transcription:
Jump
starve
mad
sandwich
marvellous
America
history
Emily
Kevin
cheeks
charge
children
pity
quickly
again
IV. Falling or rising intonation?
1. Was it expensive?
2. I’m very tired.
3. Where are you going?
4. I went to the Mediterranean.
5. Have you ever lived there?
6. When are you coming back?
7. Did you meet him there?
8. Where’s my cup?
9. What a marvellous photograph.
10. I need a car, mobile and a lot of money.
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