Сочетания английских гласных и согласных

gh не читаются после ударной гласной light, fight, high, though, weight

- tion [ʃn] education, function, sensation, perception, explanation

[ʃn] после согласных - commission, session, version,

- sion

[ȝn] после гласных – occasion, revision, invasion, decision, confusion

- ture [ʧ] future, picture, nature, fracture, structure, signature, mixture, lecture

[ʃә] после согласных - assure, pressure, insure

- sure

[ȝә] после гласных – measure, leisure, pleasure,

qu [kw] square, quite, question, quarter, quantity, quality, technique, sequence

Упражнение 25. Прочтите следующие слова, соблюдая правила чтения.

Exclusion, champion, solution, fracture, weigh, pressure, yellowish, high, pleasure, infection, illusion, chemically, fortune, tension, eighty, quality, insurance, version, phenomenon, lecturer, mixture, session, conclusion, through, quantity, occasion, physiology, invasion, machine, ancient, species, vision, delight.

Упражнение 26. Прочтите следующий тексm, соблюдая правила чтения.

On how many occasions you have told me that television was an intrusion into privacy of the house. It is a destruction of the pleasure of conversation. Now people no longer know how to make use of their leisure.