Ex.3. The letters in bold are silent in the following words. Read the words accurately.
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A. Reading drills
PRE-TEXT EXERCISES
Ex.1. Revise the reading rules of the following letter combinations ir / ur/ er; ow/ ou; ee /ea and read the words:
firm, thirdly, circle, circulate; return, further, furthermore, purchase; serve, service, transfer, convert, emergence; decree, redeem, irredeemable; easily, cheap, means; nowadays, powerful, countable, amount, account, cowrie
Ex. 2. Practice reading the words with qu.
qu [kw] quarter, quota, quote, quotation, quit, quarrel, liquidity, acquisition;
[k] technique,unique,cheque,picturesque, grotesque, queue
Require, qualified, questionable, unique,liquid,queue, quality, quantity, technique
p /breceipt, psychology, debt, plumber, doubt, climb
kbefore n:know, knowledge, known, knee, knight, knit, knob, knock
gbefore n at the beginning or at the end of a word:
sign, resign, design, reign,gnat
toften after s: fasten, castle, listen, bristle, glisten, whistle, rustling
hhonour, honourable, honest, hour, hourly
gh after i, au, ou and before t:sigh, sightseeing, brightly, highlight;
taught, caught; brought, sought, thought
but at the beginning of a word, these letters are read as [g]:
ghost, ghosting, ghetto, ghastly
wwholesale,wholly, whose, answer, wrap, wreck, wrong, written
Debtor, highlighter, reign, honesty, soften, doubting, listening, answerphone, well-known, hustle, firefighter, whistle, Knightsbridge, walk, ghostwriter, climbing, knot, sight, bought, ghastly, knees, fought, resign, sigh, island, iron, government.
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