foe – sort – toe
sword – lord – force
prose – for – nor
porch – torch
nope – north
hope – broth
orc – pork
fork – oak
porch – torch
lounge – gorge
Ex. 2.2. Прочтите ore, our, oar как [ɔ:r].
core, snore,
shore, score,
more, ore, bore,
lore, tore, chore,
store, shore, swore,
fore, wore, horse,
bourn, course,
fourth, your,
pour, court,
yours, four
oar, roar,
coarse, soar,
board, hoarse
door, floor читаются со звуком [ɔ:r]
Однако:
hour, sour,
our, flour,
lour, scour, stour
читаются через [aʊər] или [aʊr]
[aʊr] – редуцированная форма
Ex. 2.3. Прочтите пары слов.
cope – core
scope – score
flap – floor
dap – door
shop – shore
cheap – chore
please – pour
map – more
youth – your
core – court
barn – bourn
start – store
for – tore
four – fore
foe – go
no – soar
Ex. 2.4. Прочтите предложения.
I need more ore.
Sweet to the core.
In the store I bought a game with a good lore.
At home I had a lot of chores.
I find it coarse – I don't like the course.
She doesn't need to open the fourth store.
Bring what you need on board.
Pour more wine.
I ride my horse three to four times a week.
times –> [taɪmz] (Модуль 7)
don't [doʊnt] = do not
doesn't ['dʌzənt] = does not
(Про сокращения читайте Модуль 9. )
Ex. 2.5. Прочтите war как [wɔ:r] в словах ниже.
war – warm
warb – quart
warp – dwarf
warn – swarm
wart – warmth
ward – court
Ex. 2.6. Прочтите пары слов.
war – more
warm – bourn
ward – word
quart – start
swarm – sworn
warb – board
wart – tart
warmth – nard
Чтение er, ir, yr, ur, ear, wor
e, i, y, u, + r читаются [ə:r]
ea + r + согласная читается [ə:r]
Ex. 3. Прочтите.
first, earth, earn,
heard, serve, her,
third, fur, curl,
surd, turk, turn,
spirt, blur, herb,
fern, term, jerk,
nurse, urge, verb,
perch, mirch, skirt,
merge, church, therm,
verse, blurb, firm,
stern, spurn, serf,
burn, burst, churn,
curb, lurk, murk,
slur, spurt, surf,
nerd, thirst, twerk,
pert, were, perk, erst,
birth, shirt, twirl, swirl,
sir, err, fyrd, myrrh,
pearl, search, learn,
girl, per, purr,
whirl, chirp
Ex. 3.1. Прочтите пары слов.
midge – church
stem – term
march – merge
march – mirch
serf – surf
err – erst
sir – first
her – score
form – firm
sport – spirt
switch – twerk
wrist – thirst
wore – were
snore – spur
store – serve
wore – turn
Ex. 3.2. Прочтите предложения.
This is her turn.
We were with the girl.
She is a nerd.
Search for a pearl.
It is a hard verb.
He has a good firm, sir.
No blur for the game.
Girls in high school wear [weər] beige skirts and shirts.
girls –> [gə:rlz]
skirts –> [skə:rts]
shirts –> [ʃə:rts]
(Модуль 7)
Ex. 3.3. Прочтите wor как [wə:r].
work – world – word
worm – worth – worse
worn – worst – warm
worm – worn – wore
war – farm – work
arm – worth – north
ward – word – world
worn – corn – curl
course – church – chore
burst – worst – thirst
warmth – warn – learn
urge – court – worse
shore – err – pour
world –> [wə:rəld] (фактически – двусложное слов)
Важно: буквосочетания or, wor стремятся к звуку [ə:r]. Слово word проще произнести как [wə:rd], нежели [wɔ:rd].
Другие сочетания с r, которые дают звук [ɔ:r], также можно встретить в версии [ə:r], особенно в быстрой речи и безударном положении.
Я называю это The Paradigm of Reduction. Все в устной версии языка стремится к редукции.
Чтение are
are читается как [eər] или [er], в зависимости от редукции.
[eər] – полная форма
[er] – сокращенная форма
Ex. 4. Прочитайте слова.
bare, care, fare,
dare, mare, stare,
pare, square, rare,
share, ware, flare,
spare
Ex. 4.1. Прочтите пары слов.
