HANOI OPEN UNIVERSITY MIDTERM TEST ON ENGLISH PRACTICAL PRONUNCIATION FOR ENGLISH MAJOR Subject code: EN09 – Test Number: 01 Student’s fullname: KHỔNG HỒNG AN Date of bith: 01/04/1996 Group/ Class: 0722.FDNBD217A I. ANSWER THE FOLLOWING QUESTIONS (40 points) 1. How many sounds are there in the IPA? How are they classified? 2. What is word stress? Give examples ANSWER. 1.There are 44 sounds in the IPA. It includes 20 vowel sounds and 24 consonant sounds. Vowel sounds consist of 12 monophthongs and 8 diphthongs. Consonant sounds have unvoiced and voiced sounds. 2.Word stress is the stress placed on syllables within the words There are two vital rules about word stress. The first one is that one word has one stress and the second one is that the stress is always on a vowel For example: History / ‘histri/ We have two syllables on the word “history” the stress is placed on the first syllable HIStory Photographer. We have 4 syllables, and the stress is placed on the second syllable. PhoTO grapher. Game. We have one syllable, so the stress is placed on its II. EXERCISES (60 points) Give words containing the sound at the beginning of each line Underline the letter(s) containing the sound a. /i:/ : See, eat, seat, key, people. b. /f/ : laugh, phone, fall, food, fly. c. /eɪ/ : cake, day, table, break, grey d. /ʃ/ : wash, shop, special, sugar, Russia 2. Which word whose pronunciation of the underlined part differs from that of the others? Write the answer in the provided space a. sometimes visit worship with b. washed looked stopped played …sometimes… c. three through month than d. nation pollution question information …played…… …than……… …question…… 3. Which word has the different stress pattern from the rest? Explain your choice a adorable ability impossible entertainment b engineer corporate difficult different c popular position horrible positive d selfish correct purpose surface a The answer is ENTERTAINMENT. Because the stress is on the third syllable. While other words are stressed on the second syllable. b The answer is ENGINEER We have suffix EER, so the stress is on its. It is pronounced en gi NEER. The other words are stressed on the first syllable c The answer is POSITION. We have suffix TION, so the stress is placed in front of suffix. It is pronounced poSItion. (the second syllable). Popular, horrible and positive have the stress on the first syllable. d The answer is CORRECT. selfish, purpose and surface are the noun, correct is a verb. The rule for a noun with two syllables is that the stress is placed on the first one, and a verb with 2 syllables the stress is placed on the second syllable. CORRECT is a verb so the answer is CORRECT. Một số u cầu: + Sinh viên nộp file word lên hệ thống + Ghi rõ mã đề trong bài làm Chú ý: + Chế tài xử lý đối với bài phát hiện có sự sao chép ( VD: nếu phát hiện sao chép thì bài làm của sinh viên sẽ khơng được cơng nhận và nhận điểm 0….) + Giảng viên có thể trao đổi, nhận xét góp ý cho bài làm của sinh viên trên diễn đàn hoặc buổi Vclass (SV tham gia lớp Vclass đầy đủ để được giải đáp)