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Exercises

Try using some phonetic symbols. Using your dictionary or the index, fill in the
pronunciation of these words (put the symbols between the / /). Then practise saying the
words and make sure you can see and hear the difference in the pronunciation of the words
in each pair.

3 soup / / soap / / 4 vase / / razor / /
5.2 Look at the underlined letters in these words. Which one is the odd one out in each case?
1 bread dream spread dead
2 spoon room flood choose
3 fast phrase blame sunbathe
4 cousin wound (n) rough trouble
5 virus pilot diet since
6 hyphen symptom type psychology

3.3 Which syllable has the main stress in these words? Put them in the correct column.

cathedral policy palace
first second third
opposite police understand

advertisement desert (n)
competition organise
assistance education

Now look at the words again. How many examples of the /a/ sound can you find?

5.4 Look at the underlined letters in these pairs of words. Is the pronunciation the same or
different?
know / knife muscle / scissors
island / Islam climb / bomb

listen / western
honest / hope
aisle / Christmas
wrong / wrist
calf / calm
hand / handsome
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