Exercise 1. Comment on the different types of sound transitions in English.
CV: key, port, talk, time, calm, turn, cat, pen.
VC: button, letter, happy, worry, money, body, coming, syllable.
CC: act, checked, begged, kicked, liked, meet Tom.
VV: my apple, he is, there is, we always, the actress, she asks.
Think of your own examples and compare them with the corresponding types of transitions in your mother tongue
Transcribe the following English words and underline the transcription symbol which corresponds to each syllabic sound in the words: Candle, sand, sadden, can’t, don’t, listen, here, fire, our, needn’t, floor.
Exercise 2.
Transcribe the following words, show the point of syllable division in each of them by putting a bar between the syllables (table [tei/bl].
Ready, nature, natural, picture, finish, many, pity, pupil, study, discover, story.
