1. What type of modification can you find?

Explain the changes

1 clip board, soap box, sweet talk,
sidetrack slipcase, topcoat,
grasped, crept, stopped

2 Kitten, certain, garden, sudden,

pardon,
Opening, lightning, sickening,
gardening, shortening, good night

3 Clothes, glimpse, plain, claim,

blame
plunge
4 the seventh, the ninth, the tenth,
the eighth, the hundredth
5 Privacy, principle, primitive, true,
dry
6 American president
→ Americam
president, target
country → targek
country
7 about /əˈbaʊt/ ahead /əˈhed/
again /əˈgen/ ballad /ˈbæləd/
customer /ˈkʌstəmə/
8 excite /ɪkˈsaɪt/, exist /ɪgˈzɪst/, inane
/ɪˈneɪn/, device /dɪˈvaɪs/
9 Library, factory, secretary
1 |Far away, his hair is dark,
0 A year  is 12 months long.
2. Spot the times when the sounds /t/ or /d/ may disappear. How do
we call such type of modification?

1. My landlady bought a new handbag the other day.

2. The first girl earned twenty pounds.
3. The second boy waited for half an hour.
4. I don't know when they finished work yesterday.
5. I don't like fast food as a rule.
6. It was a perfect afternoon, perfectly marvellous.
7. Raise both your hands slowly into the air.
8. I watch TV most evenings; in fact I watched for five hours last
night.
3. Answer the questions
- Is there any difference in articulation of a speech sound in
isolation and in connected speech?
- What is assimilation? What types of assimilation do you know?
- What is reduction?
- What is elision?
- What is insertion of sounds?