Pre-view Exercises

Ex. 1. Guess the meaning of the words.

Catholics, heretic, Ambassador, the Pope, Protestants, the Blessed Virgin, His Holiness, Mass.

Ex. 2. Check up the pronunciation of the words.

Authority, sovereign, sincerity, illegitimate, compromise, innocence, precious, conceivable, repugnance.

Ex. 3. Look up the meaning and pronunciation of the new vocabulary in the dictionary.

butchery (n.) eternity (n.)

charge (v.) humble (adj.)

commit (v.) massacre (v., n.)

consummate (adj.) plot (n.)

consolation (n.) subject (n.)

condemn (v.) trial (n.)

conspire (v.) treachery (n.) tumour (n.) treason (n.)

dispatch (v.) uphold (v.)

despise (v.)

to place smb upon the throne

to raise smb to the throne

death warrant

Ex. 4. Group the words according to the pronunciation:

a) [ᴧ] b) [a:] c) [ᴂ]

Advantage, uphold, Ambassador, subject, charge, dispatch, recover, after, command, Catholic, humble, massacre, consummate, repugnance, Mass, wondrous.

Ex. 5. Fill in the table with the words from exercises 3-4 corresponding to the following stress patterns.

/ _	/ _ _	_ /	_ / _	_ _ / _
Suitor	mortify	resolve	inherit	veneration

Ex. 6. Build a) nouns from the verbs:

Console, commit, conspire, witness, bless, confess, deny, despise, poison, charge.

b) adjectives from the nouns:

Repugnance, innocence, sincerity, advantage, poison, eternity.

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