Research Topics - Unit 2: page 15

Guided Readings

The readings for this week (photocopies will be supplied) are as follows:

Crystal chapters 22 and 27

Roach chapters: 2, 3, 4, 6, 7

Class exercises

(please have these prepared for the next seminar session)

1. Transcribe the following words into IPA, either how they are pronounced in Received Pronunciation or how you pronounce them (if that's different).

leader

chilling

spendthrift

clattered

fanciful

castle

sharpen

pleasure

lordly

footing

gloomy

comfortable

virtuous

sorter

abounding

payment

locum

purist

fearsome

abiding

joyous

pairing

staircase

thistle

deathly

heave

smoothing

these

2. Tape yourself reading the following extract, then transcribe your own reading into IPA.

On the first day of British Summer time, the winter weather has still got much of the country in its grip with icy roads as far as Kent and Hampshire but it's still the North that's most affected with the worst conditions now moving westwards into Scotland.