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Suit, to survey, manageress, inwardly, to rejoice, target, suede, loafer, fibreglass, mannequin, to loll,
nylon, to encapture, platinum, toffee, version, sumptuous, bodyguard, to yell, limousine, wobbly, lingerie,
psyche, to plough, anorak, to identify.
0 Exercise 2
Pronounce the words and phases where the following clusters occur.
1. consonant +
On the cover, and these shoes, in the full-length mirror, inside the shop, when the princess, in the back,
and their skin, had that, found these books, in the clothes.
2. plosive + 1
Black, at least, bless, fibreglass, blonde, blue, closed, platinum, impatiently, and looked, at London,
people, ploughed.
3. plosive + r
Cream, primrose, tried, drink, princess, driven, screamed, and red, promised, would read, improve,
crossing.
4. plosive + plosive
And placed, fitted perfectly, take both, and big, laughed behind, what bodies, bodyguard turned.
5. consonant + w
Job would be safe, card which, this week's, suede, coat which, cost one, just one, quickly, returned with, it
was, it would.
0 Exercise 3
Pronounce after the announcer avoiding false assimilation. Comment on the phonetic phenomena.
This season's suit, as featured, as though, is so beautiful, as the car, was staying, was so tiring.
0 Exercise 4
Transcribe the following compound words.
Green-coloured, red-haired, toffee-brown, bodyguard, middle-aged.
0 Exercise 5
Transcribe and intone the following exclamatory sentences.
How
\
funny
English
people
are, | she 'thought, | with their 'wobbly \faces | and 'big \noses
| and their
\skin! || What
\
bodies they
had! ||
EXERCISES
Exercise 1
Reproduce the sentences in which the following words and phrases are used in the text.
To survey oneself in a full-length mirror, to be very good on somebody, to rejoice, to match, to be
encaptured by something, to fit perfectly, to try on, to shift impatiently, to set off, tiring, to plough through,
to be a devoted shopper, not to take any notice of something.
Exercise 2
I. Find words opposite in meaning to the following ones from the text.
1. Untidy, safe, same, beautiful, sumptuous, funny, necessary, tiring, difficult, impatient;
2. Rejoice, place, fit, improve.
II. Give synonyms.
1. Heap, purchase, journey;
2. To survey, to place, to improve, to swear;
3. Sumptuous, tiring, puzzling
Exercise 3
Match the words on the left with their definitions on the right.
1. to loll
A. correspond in quality, colour, design, etc.;
2. to rejoice
B. change or move from one position to another;
3. to survey
C. associate inseparably or very closely with smth.;
4. to hug
D. show signs of great happiness;
5. to identify
E. be of right measure, shape and size;
6. to match
F. take a general view of smth.;
7. to order
G. stand, sit or recline in a lazy attitude;
8. to fit
H. squeeze tightly in one's arms, usually with affection;
9. to shift
I. make a loud sharp cry (as of pain, excitement, etc.)
10. to yell
J. command or direct.