Articulation of vowels.

Task 1 What is a vowel? Examine its characteristics and define how vowel sounds differ from their consonant counterparts.

Task 2 Study the information about basic principles of classifying vowels and answer the following questions:

- How are English vowels classified? 3) What does stability of articulation specify? 4) How are vowels subdivided according to this principle? Is the situation seen similarly by different phoneticians?

Task 3 Vowels as well as consonants have no meaning of their own but they can render communicative meaning. Study some vowel interjections with communicative meaning in English and transcribe them.

Vowels with communicative meaning in English

Task 4 Practice using these simple interjections as an efficient means of conveying emotions and feelings.

Task 5 Write words for the things in the picture in the correct part of the table

[eɪ]	[æ]
cake

Task 6 Listen to the sound [e] in the words below and compare it with the words on each side (2_T 1.2)

Task 7 Find a way from Start to Finish. You may pass a square only if the word in it has the sound [i:]. You can move vertically (↑) or horizontally(→).

Task 8 Listen and circle the word you hear. (3_T 1.3)

1. Did you see the men/man?

2. I’ve got a pen/pain in my hand.

3. That’s a strong bear/beer.

4. I want to leave/live.

5. Did you see the bed/bird.

6. You should take the left/lift.

Task 9 Listen to the examples of weak vowels in the unstressed syllables. The italicized sounds are pronounced as [ə]: (4_T 1.4)

weak A: away banana woman sugar

weak E: garden paper under

weak O: police doctor correct

weak U: support figure colour

Task 10 Listen. In each sentence or phrase there are two vowels which are not [ə].

Example: an apple and a banana (5_T 1.5)

1) from Canada to China.

2) The parrot was asleep.

3) The cinema was open.

4) the photographer’s assistant.

5) a question and an answer.

6) a woman and her husband

7) a pasta salad.

Task 11 Listen to the sentences. Is the accent North American (they pronounce [r] after the vowel) or South East England? Write Am. or Eng. (6_T 1.6)

Example: He asked her to dance__Eng____

1) We started in March.____

2) It’s a fast car._____

3) My heart’s strong.___

4) Where’s the bar?_____

5) It stops and starts.____

6) A glass of beer.____

7) Was his hair dark or fair?___

Task 12 Listen to the sound [ɜː] in the words below and compare it with the words on each side. (7__T 1.7)

Task 13. Listen and circle the word you hear (8___T 1.8)

1) It isn’t four/far.

2) It’s on the worst/west coast.

3) I walk/woke the dog.

4) The butcher’s shut/shirt.

5) There’s coffee in the port/pot.

6) He has a black beard/bird.

7) Is that her/hair?

8) We worked/walked all day.

Task 14. Find a way from Start to Finish. You may pass a square only if the word in it has the sound [aʊ]. You can move vertically (↑) or horizontally(→).

Task 15. Listen and circle the word you hear (9___T 1.9)

Date: 2015-01-12; view: 2537