Reading Test

Read the words according to the reading rules.

fright still hilly briefing rye

hide mink disciple brighten whisper

wish find dim pinch remind

resist hide dime pine stride

smile mindless dingy piracy mice

rind hillside dire pyre resign

nigh highway fridge sympathy climate nitwit fireplace desirable illegal icy

mirth fistful design sin nippy

skill first circulation bird mild

inspire shine silent quire skip

wind birch thirst dirty briefly

lice achieve besiege byte lire

grief fiend fiery divorce crime

nymph grid gym lightly wig

mischief grieve tiny titter firm

hid width knight tire strive

swing behind belief science fling

wire price since decisive fly

icon wildfire sticky lifetime slight

expire shield gripe brighten skill

sing libel clingy brief rib

midwife pilfer climb unit dye

grind kidnap bride fit unite

slimy pidgin piffle deprive pinstripe

desirous virtuous vital whirlwind whirl

oткрытый слог [כu ]	закрытый слог [כ]	o + r [כ:] [ə:]	o + r + гласн. [כ:]
go	hot	port	more
phone	pot	sport	core
photo	stop	short	score
nose	mock	sort	tore
note	plot	born	store
tone	odd	word	before
close	clock	work	implore

²Activity 1. Contrasting Sound Practice

1. Listen and repeat the words paying attention to the sounds:

• go – phone – home – go home Let's phone and go home.

• cock – dog – lost – job Tom lost his job, dog and cock.

• story – forum – oral – coral This story is told orally.

B. note – not	born – bore
hope – hop	corn – core
smoke – mock	order – ore
code – cod	sort – soar
dote – dot	short – shore
slope – slop	lord – lore
slogan – slog	force – fore
slope – slop	port – pore
robe – rob	stork – store
logo – log	gorge – gore

Activity 2. Distribute the words according to the sounds given in

columns.

	[כu]	[כ]	[כ:] [ə:]	[כ:]		[כu]	[כ]	[כ:] [ə:]	[כ:]
orphan					mob
fog					mode
focal					work			
follow					offer
forty					dote
fond					doll
world					doe
fore					dock
ford					ignore
monster					office
moment					phony
forbid					poke
mole					poky
snore					pore
sordid					soda
total					soccer

Activity 3. Pair-Work. In each column underline the words that do not

have the sound:

[כ:] forbid ignore corn world pore lord bore short

snore mode core sort

stop port shore before

forty order offer score

[כ] hello not boss popular

dot slog doll cord

stop total shop dock

problem mock pot clock

soccer odd nose rob

[כu] poke shore prone pose

not stone woe porky

note role love polo

rose stole vote local

total pole tone mole

[uә]

[auә] [כ:] BUT!

BUT!

[Λ]

BUT!

BUT!

[u:]

[u]

[Λ]

[כi]

[Əu] [au ]

BUT!

²Activity 4. Listen to the words and repeat them after the speaker.

low – blow – flow – mow – row – crow – tow. But: how, cow, now!

owl – bowl – prowl – brown – crown – frown – town

old – bold – gold – hold – fold – cold – scold. He was old, but bold.

post – host – ghost – poster – roster – both – only – program – progress

son – done – among – month – money – monkey – some – come

other – mother – brother – another – nothing – smother

love – above – glove – dove – shove – shovel – oven – covert

out – about – scout – count – proud – doubt – amount

²Activity 5. Listen to the words and repeat them after the speaker, paying attention to the difference in spelling.

• slop – slope – sloop – sloth – slouch – slovenly – slow – slosh

• pot – poke – pork – poach – point – pool – poor – pounce – pour

• mob – mode – moan – mood – mount – more – morsels – move – mow

• sob – sober – soap – soar – soon – soothe – son – sort – soul – south soup – sour – source – sow – spot – sport – spoke – sponge – spooky

• bog – bogus – boil – bold – boost – bore – borrow – bough – bounce bout – bow – bowl – brought

• tot – total – torch – touch – tout – tow – tower – toy – town – toast

• woe – wonder – wool – word – worm – worry – worship – worth –would – worse – wound – wore – world –word

• rob – robe – rook – rough – rout – row – rowdy – royal

Activity 6. Read the similes. Which one do you like most of all? And why?

Activity 7. Read the sentences. Mind the reading rules.

Our townhouse has a brown mouse.

We found our gowns downtown.

Are we allowed to speak aloud?

The spoiled boy destroyed my joy.

Rob's toys are noisy.

He frowns. I want to encourage him.

He is moody and low. He had a row.

Don’t make my blood boil.

He bought new tools.

The crowd shouted loudly.

The mountain was covered with snow.

He got power and money.

I bought the flowers in the south.

The British are known to be great sports-lovers.

My son is fond of Snooker and other sports.

Activity 8. Read the poems according to the reading rules .

The Difference Twixt optimist and pessimist The difference is droll: The optimist sees the doughnut; The pessimist sees the hole.

Little mouse, little mouse, Where is your house? -I am a poor mouse, I have no house.

²Activity 9. Listen to the speaker and imitate the tongue twisters.

Learn one of them by heart.

Activity 10. Read the words in bold type, explain the reading rules of the

letter “O”. Read the rhymes according to the reading rules.

There was a man rode through our town

Snooty Clown was his name.

His saddle – bow was old and gold.

He was very proud of his name, he told.

Snooty Clown runs through the town.

Upstairs and down stairs in his nightgown.

Looking in the windows, shouting through the lock

Are the children all in bed, now it’s ten o’clock.

Activity 11. Read the words in bold type, explain the reading rules of the

letter “O”. Read the limerick and the poem according to the reading rules.

A. «A cheerful old bear at the Zoo

Could always find something to do.

When it bored him to go

On a walk to and fro,

He reversed it, and walked fro and to.

B. My Protection

I love my family, my home, They’re so tender and so warm That even in the bitter cold I feel secure, firm and bold. I never fear for I know They’ll give support in case of woe.

I can rely on their power At any time, at any hour. I love my family and home, They are my shelter in the storm, They’re my joy and my reward, They best of treasures I have got. Jane Kislovskaya

Activity 12. Read the words and cross out the word with a different sound.

[ƏU] gold, coat, boast, robe.

[ƏU] crow, below, know, now, woe.

[Λ] company, cover, monkey, donkey, none.

[au] loudly, frown, soup, rout, crown.

[כ:] store, soar, explore, cow, corn, thought.

[u:] stool, food, soon, zoo, foolish.

[u:] look, noodle, school, spoon, roof, wood.

Activity 13. Read the proverbs according to the reading rules.

Can you find Russian versions for them?

Fool and his money are soon parted. For love the wolf eats the sheep. Blood is thicker than water. There is no rose without a thorn. As you sow, you shall mow. Among thorns grow roses. What is done can’t be undone. A gift horse is not looked in the mouth. A man is not known until he comes to honour. To make a mountain out of a molehill. You can’t tell a book by its cover. Money likes to be counted. Many words hurt more than swords. By hook or by crook. Love makes the world go round. Love cannot be bought or sold. All covet, all lose.

There is no joy without alloy. Handsome is as handsome does. Two is a company, but there is none. April showers bring May flowers. Four eyes see more than two. Between two stools one falls on the ground. Money is power. Too many cooks spoil the broth. Tomorrow comes never. Who keeps company with the wolf, will learn to howl. By the work we know the workman. Much ado about nothing. Something is better than nothing. A king is never powerful that has no power on the sea. Better a good cow than a cow of good kind..