Правила чтения

Ch  

[tʃ] chess, much, choose, cheese, chin  

[k] Chemistry, character  

[ʃ] machine  

Sh  

[ʃ] ship, wash, shine, brush  

Tch  

[tʃ] watch, match  

Ck  

[k] black, clock, neck, dock, thick, pick  

Th  

[ð] this, that, these, those, the, bathe  

[θ] thin, thick, think, thank  

Nk  

[ŋk] ink, pink, think, thank  

Wh  

[w] why, which, when, where, what, white  

Перед o[h] who, whose, whom, whole  

Wr  

[r] write, wrong  

Ng  

[ŋ] long, thing, bring, strong, wrong  

Ph  

[f] phone, Physics, Geography  

Kn  

[n] knife, know, knee  

Qu  

[kw] queen, question, quarter  

Igh  

[ai] high, light, fight, night, tight, might  

Ear  

[iə] ear, hear, near, dear, clear, fear  

[3:] year, heard, learn  

[a:] heart  

Air  

[ƐƏ] air, hair, fair  

Eer  

[iə] deer, engineer  

Wa  

[wɔ] was, wash, water  

War  

[wɔ:] warm, wart, war  

Wor  

[w3:] worm, work  

Ou  

[au] about, loud, trout, mountain  

[ʌ] young, country, trouble, double  

[u:] soup, group  

Ow  

[au] now, brown, crown, town  

[əu] yellow, Moscow, fellow  

Au  

[ɔ:] August, autumn  

Aw  

[ɔ:] law, claw, draw  

Augh  

[ɔ:] taught, daughter  

Ough  

[ɔ:] brought, fought  

Gu  

[g] guess, guest, guide  

Al  

[ɔ:] перед k chalk, talk, walk  

[ɔ:l] wall, tall, also, always, already  

Eigh  

[ei] eight, weight  

Eu  

[ju:] Europe  

Ey  

[ei] grey, they  

Ay  

[ei] day, play, way  

Двойное чтение согласных  

С  

перед e, i, y [s] pencil, nice, twice  

В других случаях [k] cat, cake, cup, come  

G  

перед e, i, y [dʒ] page, cage, gym  

В других случаях [g] good, green, big  

S  

в начале слова, перед глухими согласными и в конце слов после глухих согласных читается [s] sit, student, books  

Между гласными, в конце слов после гласных и звонких согласных читается [z] cheese, choose, please, pens  

X  

перед согласными и в конце слов [ks]  

text, box, six, fix, next  

Перед ударной гласной [gz] exam, example