READING COMPREHENSION EXERCISES
1. Consult a dictionary and practise the pronunciation of the following words:
dewy, meadow, cartoon, Captain Kangaroo, episode, mass media, influential,
environment, catalogue, brochure, credulous, sophisticated, deliberate, addictive, subtle,
vicious, altruistic, stimulate, control, advertise, permissible, digest, identify, abbreviate,
programme, persuasively, agency, intellect, design, available, intricate, isolate, giant,
conglomerate, audio, contribute, charitable.
2. Practise the pronunciation of the following polysyllabic words paying attention to the principal and secondary
stresses:
magazine,
influential,
psychologically,
altruistic,
motivation,
consideration,
entertainment, regularity, information, sophistication, appreciation, disapproval,
individually, intertwining, governmental, philosophical, educational, intellectually.
3. a) Read out the following observing all the phonetic phenomena of connected speech (assimilation, lateral and
nasal plosions, the loss of plosion, the linking”r”).
you accept the media; at the same time; with all this; the permissible and the forbidden;
look back at the first two paragraphs; words introduced in the media; even that part of
media output; commercial messages inserted throughout; or a newspaper or magazine
article; around the advertisements; in either print or electronic media; what the boss's
policies are.
b) Practise the pronunciation of the following word combinations containing the nasal sonant [ŋ] in the
intervocalic position:
sitting in the kitchen; involving subtle conditioning and brain-washing; all these negative
aspects of growing up with the media; what's going on in the world; the fun of trying out
a new product; but there is always that string of jokes; just standing or wandering about a
stage; when you were young and absorbing uncritically; accepting a job.
Практический курс английского языка. 4 курс под ред. В.Д. Аракина
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