| Буква | Буквосочетания | Звук | Примеры |
| Aa | a+ir | [eq] | air, hair, chair, pair, |
| fair | |||
| ay, ai | [ei] | play, pay, say, day, to- | |
| day, aim, rain, paint, | |||
| main, nail | |||
a + n.
| plant, branch, can't | ||
| a + f | after, craft | ||
a+s + согласная
| [a:] | grass, class, fast, task | |
| a + th | path, rather, father | ||
| a + l | half, palm | ||
 a + ll
| all, ball, tall, call, small | ||
a + lk
| [O:] | chalk, talk, walk | |
| w + ar | war, warm, award, | ||
| warn, reward | |||
| w(h) + a | [wO] | was, what, want, | |
| wash.watch | |||
| aw | [O:] | law, saw, draw, straw- | |
| berry | |||
| a + nge | [ei] | change, strange, exchange | |
| Буква | Буквосочетание | Звук | Примеры |
| au (gh) | [O:] | author, autumn, | |
| daughter | |||
| Ее | ее, ea | [i:] | see, meet, tree, green, |
| street, feel, sea, meat, | |||
| tea, team, peace | |||
| ea + d, th, 1th | [e] | head, dead, bread, | |
| death, health | |||
| но: | [i:] | read, lead, reader, leader |
| ea + r + согл. | [W] | earn, earth, early, | |
| learn | |||
| ear, eer | [iq] | hear, near, ear, clear, | |
| dear, fear | |||
| ew | [ju:] | new, knew, newspaper, | |
| few | |||
| ei | [i:] | ceiling, receive, de- | |
| ceive, seize | |||
| er (в суффиксе) | [q] | worker, driver, | |
| painter | |||
| ey (под ударением) | [ei] | they, grey, obey | |
| но: | key [ki:] | ||
| Ey (в неударном слоге) | [i] | money, hockey, trolley | |
| I i | ie (перед согласной) | [i:] | field, piece, niece, brief, chief |
| Буква | Буквосочетание | Звук | Примеры |
| ie (в конце слова) | [ai] | lie, tie, die | |
| igh | [ai] | night, fight, high, | |
| sigh, sight, flight | |||
| i + nd | [ai] | kind, find, mind, blind | |
| но: | [i] | wind, window | |
| i + ld | [ai] | mild, child, (но: child- | |
| ren) | |||
| Oo | oo + n, 1 | [u:] | moon, soon, too, |
| spoon, cool, fool | |||
| oo + k | [u] | look, book, took, cook | |
| ou | [au] | house, round, out, | |
| about | |||
| но: | [u] | should, could | |
| ough + t | [o:] | bought, thought, | |
| fought, brought | |||
| oa | [ou] | coat, boat, soap, road, | |
| toast | |||
| ow (в середине слова) | [au] | town, brown, down, | |
| power, powder | |||
| ow (в конце слова) | [ou] | window, slow, row, | |
| snow, grow |
| Буква | Буквосочетание | Звук | Примеры | |||
| но: | [аи] | now, how | ||||
| oy oi | [oi] | boy, toy, noise, voice, soil | ||||
| choice, coin, boil | ||||||
| o+ld | [оu] | old, cold, sold, hold, | ||||
| told, bold | ||||||
| our | [O:] | four, court, course, | ||||
| your, fourth | ||||||
| our, ower | [auq] | our, hour, shower, | ||||
| flower, tower, power | ||||||
о + m
| [A] | some, come, among, | ||||
| money | ||||||
| + n | son, won, wonderful, | |||||
| front | ||||||
| + v | glove, love, lovely | |||||
| + th | mother, brother, other | |||||
| но: | [u] | prove, move, move- | ||||
| ment, improvement | ||||||
| ous | [q] | famous, dangerous, | ||||
| various | ||||||
| or | [q] | doctor, tractor, con- | ||||
| ductor | ||||||
| Uu | ue | [ju:] | due, sue, hue | |||
| после r,l | [u:] | true, blue | ||||
| ure - в открытом слоге после -s | [uq] | sure, surely | ||||
| Буква | Буквосочетание | Звук | Примеры | |||
| но: | [u] | sugar | ||||
| u - в закрытом слоге после f, р, b | [u] | full, push, bush, bull | ||||
| в открытом слоге после r, j | [u:] | rule, June, jubilee, rumour | ||||
| Yy | перед гласной в начале слова | [j] | yes, yet, year, yesterday | |||
| в безударном положении на конце слова | [i] | city, money, holiday, lady, lazy, fifty, seventy |
Тренировочные упражнения
- Отработайте чтение следующих буквосочетаний.
| Звук | Буква и буквосочетания | |||||
| e | ee | ea | ie | ei | ||
| [i:] | we he she these | week seek meet see | Weak Speak sea mean | field piece niece chief | receive deceive seize ceiling | |
| [а:] | a+r | a+th | a+ss,st | a+sk,sp | a+lf,lm | a+nt,nd |
| Far hard star park | father rather bath path | Pass Last Grass Past | Ask task grasp mask | half calf palm calm | plant grant can't demand | |
| [O:] | o+r(e) | a+ll,lk | au(aw) | au(gh) | ough+t | wa+r |
| short door floor more | all fall chalk small | author because draw saw | daughter taught caught launch | brought thought fought bought | war warm warn wardrobe | |
| [ou] | о | oa | ow | o+st,ld | ||
| stone nose whole spoke | boat road soap goal | Know window show low | cold old most told | |||
| [au] | ou | ow | oi [OI] | oy[OI] | ||
| found round out South | how now down town | coin soil boil spoil | boy toy joy enjoy | |||
| [ai] | i\y | igh | i+ld | i+nd | i+ gn | |
| Fine life sky try | Fight Light Night high | child mild wild mild | find kind mind blind | sign design designer | ||
| [ei] | a | ai | ay | ey | eigh | |
| make lake take date | rain wait main paint | day may play say | they obey grey | eight weigh neighbour | ||
| [W] | е + r | i + r | u + r | ea+r | w+ or | |
| Her term person serve | first third shirt skirt | turn burn fur curtain | earn learn early year | work word world worth | ||
| [A] | u | o+m,n,v,th | ou | oo+d | ou+gh[f] | |
| lunch cup but must | son some love mother | country couple young trouble | rough blood tough | enough | ||
| [u:] | o | oo | ou(gh) | oo+r [uq] | ou+r | |
| do who move | moon spoon too | group rouble through | poor moor | tour tourist | ||
| [eq] | a+re | air | ere | ear | ear/eer[iq] | Ere |
| parents spare | hair pair | there where | bear pear | dear near | here mere |
- Прочитайте, сравнивая произношение звуков и написание слов.
| [iq] | [eq] | [W] | [ou] | [u] | [uq] |
| ear | air | girl | goal | took | tour |
| beer | bear | work | woke | shook | sure |
| hear | hair | burn | bone | put | poor |
| dear | dare | turn | tone | could | cruel |
| appear | a pair | earn | own | should | assure |
| [wW] | [wO:] | [wO] | [wu] - | [wA] | |
| were | war | was | woman | won | |
| work | warm | want | wood | worry | |
| world | wore | wash | wool | wonder | |
| worst | water | watch | wolf | wonderful |
3. Прочитайте следующие слова и объясните, по каким правилам они читаются.
coffee, gone, watch, would, room, look, woman, push, dull, who, hook, school, buy, bye, ice, frighten, country, learn, coat, York, after, compare, their, dear, fuel, give, put, cut, child.
Упражнения в чтении
1. Прочитайте следующие пословицы и поговорки, определите их русские эквиваленты. Следите за произношением звуков: [au], [ai], [aiq], [ei], [A], [iq].
Out of sight, out of mind.
Fight fire with fire.
From the frying pan into the fire.
It's never too late to learn.
Never judge from appearances.
