Reading practice
[æ]
| That lamp is bad. Glad to see your lads. The cat is black. My bag is in your hand, Dan. That is the man that sat on your black hat in the tram. Put the map back into the bag. He has a bad plan. |
[e]
| Nell, your breakfast is ready. Teddy is ready already. Retell the text better. Send a letter to Ned. Put these ten red pens on the desk. Help your friend. Go to bed, Ted. I read the text ten times. |
[i:]
| Please read to me. Brush your teeth to keep them clean. I never eat meat. I feel I need a deep sleep. Do you mean to speak? Lena, meet Pete. |
[i]
| Sit a bit. Sit still till I kill the fly. Which is better: to kiss a miss or to miss a kiss? Pick up the big thick stick if it fits. Where is the bill of the mill? |
[ə:]
| That person was a German worker. I'm certain I heard of this girl. He prefers to learn German first. A word is worthless. The journalists journeyed in turn. Her work was urgent. I leave on Thursday on the 3rd. Return early. Don't turn back. |
[α:]
| The Army guards peace. Art for art's sake. Mark this part: His farm is not far from the park. It's hard to count the star? It is half past nine. The large dark car started for the market. It is rather dark in the aunt's garden. |
[o]
| Stop rocking. The pot is on the top of the box. Lots of clocks go wrong. I want to wash my dog. The watch stopped. What do you want? I lost my box. Sorry: it's our lorry. |
[o:]
| The hall is on the fourth floor. The horse was small. Let us have a walk in the morning. My sport is volley-ball. Pour out some warm water. I don't want any more. Nora Gordon has four daughters. This order is small, but important. |
[u]
| The woman took a book and looked at it. The hook was a foot above the cooker. I stood in the wood and looked at the rooks. Look, where is the cook? |
[u:]
| He will come soon and we'll move into a new room. The spoon is too small for soup. School is over at noon. Soon they went to the zoo too. |
[۸]
| Don't worry, don't be in a hurry. We must run to catch the bus. Every country has its customs. My son likes the sun. You must not touch the nut. You must study Russian. |
[ai]
| My wife is quite right. Try this knife, it's nice. It's high time to write. I'd like to find a knife of this kind. Try to fly to Brighton on Friday. Her eyes are nice. My child is nine. The miner likes wine. The night is light, the sky is white. We can't find a typist. I'll find my white tie. |
[еi]
| They waited for the train in the rain until eight. They pay eight shillings a day. It will take place on the same day. They came on the same day by the same train. The same lady gave a strange name to her maid. The baker bakes cakes. Take your cake! Kate, don't play so late. |
[oi]
| This boy's voice annoys me. The boys enjoy the toys. If you join, you will enjoy it, boys! This noise annoys me. Boys, rejoice! |
[ou]
| Mr. Bone is at home. Nobody knows the road to Dover. Joe, don't go home alone. Show the boat you know. The stove is cold, I don't know this joke about an old coat. |
[au]
| Now sit down on the brown couch. Count aloud how many thousands of pounds there are in the bag now. Our brown cow has been found. He shouted loudly when he found a mouse among the flowers near the house. Don't allow to plough the ground around the house. |
[iə]
| Come here, my dear. It is clear that he is near. We shan't do it this year. Do you hear? Don't fear, my dear. |
[εə]
| Take care of the new pair of chairs. Mary has very fair hair, which is rare. Where are their chairs? They are over there. Upstairs or downstairs — I don't care. |
| [p], [ai], [i], [b], [t], [d], | I, by, be, pie, tie, pipe, Pete, type, bite, tide |
| [i], [e], [j], [i:] | it, did, pit, Pete, dip, deep, bit, Betty, bid, dead, yes, yet |
| [m], [n], [t] | time, me, my, meet, mine, nine, need, in, tin, ten, pin, pen |
| [f], [v], [l], | lie, mile, line, ill, till, tell, bill, bell, lit, let, lid, led, fine, life, fly, eve, five, if, fill, feel, lift, felt |
| [s], [z] | ice, is, side, nice, size, see, sit, set, its, still, steel, sleep, slip, pencil, since, miss, mess, cent, sent, send, smile |
| [ei] | date, tape, pale, table, play, plain, plane, name, may, made, maid, day, pay, paid, sail, sale, face. save, fail |
| [i: - i] | meet, meat, tea, eat, it. did. deed, leaf, eve, peace, please, sea, see, seat, sit, cede, seed |
| [э], [e] | aside, 'silent, 'sentence, 'decent, decide, 'medicine, 'cinema, 'citizen, 'element, infinitive, 'fifty, ninety, 'easy, 'penny |
| [ou] | no, note, open, boat, so, soap, alone |
| [t] [d3] [tj] | chess, bench, fetch, each, cheese, speech, teach, shine, shave, she, sheep, ship, fish, gin, gentle, gage, James |
| [h] | he, his, hiss, hill, hell, help, home, hope, hotel |
| [k], [g], [ks] | came, clean, pick, ticket, six, next, pig, egg |
| [ð] [θ] | the, then, thin, those, clothes, these, this, this is, is this |
| [æ] | can, hand, have, cat, chap, map, man, bad, apple, black, sat, that, fat, cap, cab, lamp, stand, badge, jam, jazz, Jack, land, has, rat, glad |
| [e, æ] | men-man, bed-bad, bog bag, set-sat, gem-jam, lend-land |
| [æ], [i] [ei] | happy, 'happen, absent, attend, 'embassy, 'moment, 'notice, excellent, 'naval, 'vacant, 'family, 'animal, 'Italy, 'capital, 'Canada, Japan, 'notice |
| [u:], [ju:] | blue, June, use, Cuba, student, excuse, institute, noon, moon, soon, spoon, too |
| [۸] | but, bus, cup, cut, sun, such, lunch, bunch, punch, much, jump, just, funny |
| [w] | why, way, white, wide, wine, wise, twice, wife, away, wind, swim, wish, which, weak, 'woman, wood, sweet, well, witty, willow, windy |
| [kw] | quite, quiet, question, quickly, quote, quick, queen |
| [au] | now, how, cow, house, out, about, shout, loud, cloud, town, down, sound, mount |
| [ŋ] | sang, sank, thank, sung, sing, thing, think, bank, tank, bang, clang, donkey |
| [a:] | car, far, tar, hard, target, dark, barn, park, large, start, March, part, smart |
| [o:] | for, lord, all, also, port, board, horse, more, sort, north, fork, fourth, born |
| [r] | ride, write, raise, rice, rise, rain, brain, across, drop, wrong, true, brush, try, dry, fry, drain, drink, Bronx, street, free, freedom |
| [i] | army", carpet, party, forty, kitten, mitten, because, list, mist, bill, kill, fit |
| [ə:] | her, turn, dirty. thirty, shirt, church, burn, bird, German, third, girl, thirsty |
| [au] | tower, 1 lower, our. hour, down, count, cloud, found |
| [ə] | miner, writer, teacher, dinner, sister, silver, singer, winter, butter, butler, supper, letter, water, daughter, paper, matter, number, worker, doctor, over |
| [ə:] [e] | person, certainly, curtain, birthday, Thursday, interval, Saturday, America, interpreter, president, 'history, 'exercise, minister, factory. Africa |
| [εə] | care, corm’ pare, prepare, parents, square, air, hair, chair, pair, upstairs |
| [iə] | here, hear, year, near, clear, dear, fear, engineer |
| [aiə] | fire, tyre, tired, Ireland, wire, inquire, inquiry, science, society, quiet |
| [o], [oi] | on, hot, not, lot, clock, dog, off, coffee, fog, fond, shop, gong, song, long, want, wash, watch, boy, point, coin, join, noise, voice |
E e [i:] - me, Pete
[e] - met, left
eve, be, mete, Pete, net, lend, bet, pen, spend, bent, bend, left, bede, let, den. bed, men, ten, best, eke, me, kept, slept, met, melt, send, zest, step, fete, vent, smell, tell
A a [ei] - made, ape
[e] - man, land
blame, pale, mate, sake, fate, make, fat, jam, sand, lad, name, lake, bad. sale. lale. plan, ale, date, vale, bat, nave, fame, lamp, sane, bag, can, flat, snack, snake, frame
I i, Y y [ai] - - five, type
[i] - bit, gym
by, dye, my, tie, size, if, nip, tip, 'system, fit, mine, fine, dive, tin, style, pine. life. .side, lift, sin, pipe, tide, kid, like, time, tint, tyke, bye, dyke, nine, sly, kite, fill, gyp
O o [ou] - - go, note
[o] - cost, stop
so, no, stone, sole, zone, lot, not, on, dome, nose, clock, sock, spoke, vote, spot. off odd, slope, slot, stock, doll, pole, dot, home, close, smoke, box, fox. hot. ox. phone
U u [ju:] - - mute, due
[۸] - hut, bud
cut, mud, such, dust, duke, use, fuse, dune, tune, tube, dump, fume, fun, hue, cue, due, hut, stuff, nude, run, cup, gun, sun, cute, mute, cube, lute, huge,-hug. but, nut
C c [s] - face, cite, icy
[k] - cat, code,cup
can, space, lace, cap, cliff, cell, face, fact, cape, clap, cent, cite, cyst, nice, •pencil. mice, cyme, camp, cede, clamp, cane, cut, 'picnic, ace, cab, cost, cram, cue. ca\ e
ck [k] back, Nick
black, lack, stick, sack, deck, slack, neck, snack, pack, pick, luck, dock, rock, lock. stock, sick
G g [d3] - gin,gem,gym
[g] - gap. gun, go
gale, cage, big, badge, age, stage, 'gypsy, stag, grim, sage. dig. gyps. got. glide gene, gibe, gym, gas, gem, gent, gill, grill, grand, gut, get, gate. rage. rag. Hag. bag
S s[s] - sit, lists, miss
[z] - pens,ties,rose
sad, best, bells, sends, cats, stones, lets, kisses, sets, likes, sat, bees, sleeps, cakes, styles, notes, spends, mends, sells, stops, is, beds, plans, dolls, nose, pose. cost.
X x[ks] - text, six
[gz] - e'xam
e'xist, e'xact, box, fox, next, wax, text, fix, six, mix, max, ox, ex'cept, ex'peet
sh[∫] - shake,cash
she, ship, dish, shell, shook, shame, shave, fish, dash, lash, shell, shock, shine.
ch [t∫] - chess, inch
[t∫] - catch
chime, chest, check, chess, cheap, teach, speech, inch, lynch, match, catch, stitch, ditch, rich, such, latch, Dutch, chase, bench, cheese, patch, fetch, lunch, punch
th [θ] - thick, myth
[ð] - this, bathe
thin, three, cloth, theme, depth, tenth, thick, fifth, sixth, teeth. myth. third, tooth. this, that, they, them, those, thy, then, with, these, than, bathe
wh [w] - what
[h] - who
when, where, why, what, which, whine, whip, white, wheel, whale, whence, who. whom, whose
ph [f] - phone
'photo, 'physics, philosophy, phone
ar [a:] - far, march mark, scar, cart, hard, bar, start, bard, harm, star, dark, park, larch, farm,
are [εə] - fare, hare card, charm, part, care, share, dare, spare, bare, square, stare, rare, scare
er [ə:] -her, term herd, hers, serf, jerk, verb, terse, herb, serve, nerve, mere, sere, sphere,
ere [iə]–here
or [o:] - for, port cord, forth, north, horn, score, storm, store, fore, sport, short, corn, torn,
ore [o:] - more fork, cork, gorge, born, lord, ore, sort, shore
ur [ə:] - fur, turn curl, cure, pure, lure, curly, bum, burst, cur, 'during, nurse, turtle, surge,
ure [juə] - cure curve, church, curdle, purple
ir, yr [ə:] - first, skirt bird, third, girl, firm, 'thirsty, hire, tire, myrtle, wire, whirl, mire, birth,
ire, yre [aiə:] - fire sir, hire, lyre, Byrd, tyre.