Mid-term on practical phonetics of english

Mid-term on PRACTICAL PHONETICS OF ENGLISH

Name: __________________________________________ Group: _____________ Date: _______________

1. 
   Put these words into the correct columns according to the stress patterns:
   

amasing destruction magical astonishing discovery radiation dangereous enjoyable sympathetic decepitve Godmother telegram defenceless impossible transformation

O o o	o O o	o O o o	o o O o
Superman	Depression	Incredible	Cinderella

II.Put these words into the correct columns.Which word has a silent ch and doesn’t fit into any column?
bunches character charity echo parachute catch machine pinch chalet children sachet yacht Christmas school mechanic moustache

[ʧ]	[k ]	[ ʃ ]

III. Put the words from boxes A and B together to make compound adjectives to fit the definitions below and mark main stress the compound adjectives:

A B

well - badly- self- left- minded centred handed looking

over broad- quick- good- weigh tempered behaved dressed

1. 
   A person who writes with their left hand is left-handed.
   
2. 
   A person who only thinks about what they want rather than what other people want is _______________________.
   
3. 
   A person who doesn’t wear neat or clean clothes is ___________________.
   
4. 
   Children who do what adults think they should do are _________________.
   
5. 
   Someone who often gets angry without having a good reason is__________________.
   
6. 
   A person who is fatter than they should be is_________________.
   
7. 
   A person who accepts behavior that some people might disapprove of _______________.
   
8. 
   If someone is attractive physically, you can say he or she is _____________.
   

IV. Where is the stress in words ending in -ion and transcribe them:
1. profession 7. promotion

2. instruction 8. fashion

3. conclusion 9. occupation 4.question 10. completion 5.emotion 11. solution 6.option 12. communication