Pronunciation & Spelling

Exercise A

Listen carefully to the following groups of words and practice reading them aloud:

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(a) (b) (c) (d) (e)

L1 1/1 bag man fat pan sad

L2 2/2 name make lake gate same

3/3 care fare share stare square

L3 4/4 wait rain nail mail vain

5/5 air chair fair hair pair

L4 6/6 way tray play day pay

L5 7/7 car far smart jar start

L6 8/8 small tall ball hall wall

L7 9/9 auto audio haunt fraud cause

10/10 caught naught taught draught daughter

L8 11/11 lawyer drawer awful saw paw

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L9 12/1 short ten men pen red bed

13/2 long be he she me we

L10 14/3 well sell tell fell spell

L11 15/4 her percent certain person server

L12 16/5 short health heavy head bread thread

L13 17/6 long please lease teach clean weak

18/7 near dear clear year hear

L14 19/8 three meet see beef deep

20/9 beer cheer deer peer queer

L15 21/10 few new dew view stew

22/11 screw flew grew blew sew

L16 23/12 folder after diver officer waiter

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L17 24/1 six big his miss kid

L18 25/2 bike five nice nine wife

L19 26/3 bill hill ill still will

L20 27/4 sir girl dirty bird circus

L21 28/5 brief chief niece piece movie

29/6 quiet tie pie science client

L22 30/7 might light right night fight

L23 31/8 sign assign resign design align

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L24 32/1 box not job stop drop

L25 33/2 those close alone home phone

34/3 come some above glove done

L26 35/4 advisor actor error motor razor

L27 36 short/5 book good look cook foot

37 long/6 room school roof spoon cartoons

L28 38/7 coat loaf boat soap road

L29 39/8 loud cloud found house about

L30 40/9 bought brought fought thought ought

L31 41/10 low narrow shallow slow window

42/11 how brown now bowl town

L32 43/12 boy toy enjoy soy annoy

L33 44/13 noisy boil oil coin voice

L34 45/14 fork form port sort short

L35 46/15 more wore snore store ignore

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L36 47/1 mug bus but nut cup

L37 48/2 excuse use resume mature produce

L38 49/3 Turkish curtain purse turn surgeon

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L39 50/1 can car fact scan doctor

L40 51/2 account accurate accuse occur hiccup

L41 52/3 back clock sick stick check

L42 53 /k//4 chemist chaos school ache echo

L43 54/5 much punch rich chair child

L44 55/6 watch Dutch switch catch kitchen

L45 56/7 cell office nice face parcel

57/8 city circus pencil medicine tacit

58/9 bicycle pharmacy fancy cylinder cycle

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L46 59/1 mug egg English girl group

L47 60 /j//2 orange engineer manager engine large

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L48 61/1 mail fail cool camel pool

L49 62/2 able apple bottle table uncle

L50 63/3 bill bell ball doll dull

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L51 64/1 bench French lunch punch inch

L52 65/2 long young sing king hang

L53 66/3 angle mingle single strangle tangle

L54 67/4 avenge change orange sponge arrange

L55 68/5 bank tank ink drink pink

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L56 69/1 pack/back pad/bad park/bark peach/beach pray/bray

L57 70/2 elephant nephew phone Varmacist physics

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L58 71 quick quite square quarter queen

================================ R (2) ================================

L59 72/1 ray red ring rob rub

L60 73/2 for air car fork start

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L61 74 /z//1 is his does busy ways

L62 75/2 yes bus us its tennis

76/3 glass boss across grass dress

L63 77/4 brush British English she shelf

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L64 78/1 thank three thick thin bath

L65 79/2 this these they brother father

L66 80/3 picture departure furniture lecture feature

L67 81/4 option infection station fiction motion

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L68 82 when why what where white

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L69 83 /ks//1 box six relax next fax

L70 84 /gz//2 exam exactly exhausted example exaggerate

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L71 85/1 my dry cry fly sky

86 /i//2 very sorry city Italy twenty

================================ Z (1) ================================

L72 87 zoo zoom hazy crazy quartz