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Sweet singing, that seemed, that side, standing stones, casting, against, east side, white sea, mist,
stronger, streamed.
3. plosive + 1
Clean, clear, glimpse, circle, explain, gleaming, quickly, stood listening, it leaned, clime, people,
unexpectedly.
0 Exercise 3
Pronounce after the announcer and say what phonetic phenomenon the following word groups have in
common:
1. Down the hill, upon them, on their foreheads, when they reached, in the hills, in the weather, on the
ground, on the grass, then they lay, in the sun.
2. And the sun, round the green, found that, amid the strands, cold though lit, rubbed their eyes, and then,
and the day.
3. Breakfast they made, that they, about them, reached the bottom, against the stars, thought there were,
that the darkness, against the light, thought that, let the warm sunlight.
0 Exercise 4
Explain how the sound [f] affects preceding or following consonants.
1. Frodo, fresh, from, frantically, froze, friendly;
2. Hurried forward, that faint stars, and fog.
0 Exercise 5
Group the phrases below according to the varieties of false assimilation which may occur in them.
Breeze seemed, as they journeyed, was steaming up, was cold, was silent, as they looked, was closing, as
their chilled fingers, was so cold, as he struggled, was suddenly aware, was smoking, with surprise, was
slowly giving way.
0 Exercise 6
Transcribe and intone the sentences. Comment upon the intonation
pattern in imperative, exclamatory
sentences and sentences with direct address.
‘
\
Sam!
he
called. ||
‘
\
Pippin!
\
Merry! 'Come a
\
long!
||
‘I am
\
waiting for
you!
||
‘
\C
m,
friend
Frodo!’
said
Tom. ||
But 'Tom 'shook his 'head
saying: 'Be
\
glad, my
merry
friends,
and 'let the 'warm 'sunlight
heat now 'heart and
\
limb! || 'Cast
'off these 'cold
\
rags! || 'Run
\
naked on the
grass!' ||
EXERCISES
Exercise 1
Match the following definitions in the left column with the words in the right column. Find sentences
with these words in the text.
Verbs:
1.
shine with interrupted brightness
A. melt
1.
appear indistinctly
B. slant
2.
change to liquid condition by heat
C. bedew
3.
move upwards
D. gleam
4.
cover or sprinkle with dew or water
E. mount
5.
be or feel very cold
F. loom
6.
diverge from a vertical or horizontal line
G. freeze
Nouns:
1.
gentle wind
A. shadow
1.
climate
B. breeze
2.
round portion of liquid such as hangs or
C. cloud
falls separately
3.
grave-mound
D. shred
4.
patch of shade, region not reached by sun E. barrow
5.
visible water vapour floating in air high
F. clime
above the ground
6.
torn or broken piece
G.drop