Transcription 2

Transcribe the following words in phonetic symbols.

Exercise 5

1.  confuse             _____________     2.  confusion           ____________

3.  Confucius           _____________     4.  amplitude          ____________

5.  prosody             _____________     6.  utter                 ____________

7.  utterance           _____________     8.  occur                 ____________

9.  occurrence         _____________     10.  south              ____________

11.  southern           _____________     12.  north              ____________

13.  northern                   _____________     14.  east  (eat)        ____________

15.  west  (wet)      _____________     16.  diphthongs      ____________

17.  vowels             _____________     18.  consonants      ____________

19.  note  (no)        _____________     20.  notion             ____________

Exercise 6

1.  emperor            _____________     2.  empress            ____________

3.  employ              _____________     4.  employment       ____________

5.  employee           _____________     6.  address  (dress) ____________

7.  addressee          _____________     8.  absence  (send)  ____________

9.  absent               _____________     10.  absentee          _____________

11.  interview         _____________     12.  interviewee      _____________

13.  dialogue  (dia) _____________     14.  aero                _____________

15.  aeroplane        _____________     16.  syllable            _____________

17.  complement     _____________     18.  complementary _____________

19.  acoustic phonetics __________      20.  courier service  _____________

Exercise 7

1.  differ                 _____________     2.   difference         _____________

3.  different            _____________     4.   convention       _____________

5.  conventionalised _____________     6.   conventional     _____________

7.  defer                 _____________     8.   deference         _____________

9.  supply               _____________     10.  supplement      _____________

11.  supplementary  _____________     12.  convenience     _____________

13.  decibel            _____________     14.  process  (n)     _____________

15.  process (v)       _____________     16.  compliment(n) _____________

17.  compliment(v)  _____________     18.  melody            _____________

19.  melodious        _____________     20.  orthography     _____________

Exercise 8

1.  communicate      _____________     2.   communicable   _____________

3.  communication   _____________     4.   congratulate     _____________

5.  congratulation    _____________     6.   observe  (serve)_____________

7.  observation       _____________     8.   able                 _____________

9.  ability               _____________     10.  perceive (receive)_____________            
 11. perception          _____________     12.  inform             ______________

13. information       _____________     14.  finite  (fine)(night)____________              
15. non-finite (none)_____________      16.  punctuate (uncle) ____________   

17. punctuation       _____________     18.  define              ______________

19. definition                   _____________     20.  definite

21.  articulate         _____________     22.  articulation      ______________

Transcribe the following sentences in phonetic symbols.

1.  How many pocket money do you have in a week?

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2.  Be careful!

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3.  Read the notes carefully.

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4.  Where is my credit card?  I remember I put it here just now.

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5.  After reading, please put back the newspaper, magazines and so on on the

     shelves.  Thank you for your attention and co-operation.

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6.  ‘War and Peace’ is a great book worth reading.

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7.  There is no short-cut in learning any language.  So, put in enough effort to

      acquire the languages of your choice.  Accept mistakes as normal 

      occurrences in the process of learning.  But try to avoid making the same 

      mistake twice.

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8.  From my observation in a corner, I see industrialisation lead to modernisation;

modernisation encourages urbanisation;  urbanisation, well, causes  

disorientation as well as all the frustrations as a result of too much competition  

and concentration.  Our lives hence are dominated by commercialism and

consumerism.  Life seems to be so short-cut and assessed only on how much  

material possession and in amount one has in accounts.

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