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Exercise 7: Words with -gr-:
Agreeable, agreed, angry, biographical.

Exercise 8: Words with-kr-:
Accredit, accrue, acrid, acrobat.

Exercise 9: Words with -pr-:
Approve, caprice, compress, depress.

Exercise 10: Words with -spr-:
Bedspread, hairspray, offspring, sprain.

Exercise 11: Words with -tr-:
Astral, atrium, Austria, construe; travel, treatment, trial, trouble,
trout, trustee, trusty, truth, Try, tryst, waitress.

Exercise 12: Words with-str-:
Abstract, Austria, bistro, construct; string, stripe, strode, stroke,
stroll, struck, structure, strung.

Task 33. Read the text below. Notice where r is pronounced and
where it is not pronounced:
Peter Newman, the Vicar of St Andrew’s church, Repton,
in Nottinghamshire, is celebrating. He’s crashed his car a total of
five times, and he’s turned his instructor’s hair grey. But finally,
after a 17-year course of 632 lessons, he’s passed his driving test.
Phoneme [w] - in its
pronouncing the lips are rounded and
slightly protruded. The back of the
tongue is raised towards the soft
palate. The soft palate is raised. The
vocal cords vibrate. From the initial
position the tongue and the lips

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