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different,
industry, still, influence, brittle, nickel, tin, resistance, stiff, ex-
ist;
during, humans, produce;
number, rust, rubber, ductile, tungsten, subsequent,
structure, substitute;
indispensable, representative, tend, domestic;
term, inert, purpose, thermal;
thermoplastics, thermosets, both, synthetic;
cheap, choose, change.
Exercise 3. Look at the following pairs of words and think if the underlined let-
ters are pronounced in the same way, or if they are pronounced differently.
Read aloud.
Age — access; major — age; access — various; age — ceramics; human —
number; widely — while; corrosion — copper; engineer — steel; ceram-
ics — clay; ferrous — term; tungsten — rust; ductile — rubber; cast — brass;
cheap — choose; thermoplastics — thermosets; chemically — choose; soci-
ety — science.
Exercise 4. Read the international words, mind the stress.
Material, role, civilization, natural, technology, class,
traditional, group,
metal, polymer, ceramics, nickel, cobalt, aluminium, structure, component,
corrosion, thermal, electrical, element, zinc, bronze, polymer, synthetic, plas-
tic, category, industry, product, form, element, reaction, classification.
Exercise 5. Try to enrich your vocabulary:
a) analyse the following words with different suffixes and divide them into two
groups — nouns and adjectives:
development, civilization, natural, possible, various, traditional, fer-
rous, different, brittleness, stainless, structure, corrosion, resistance, ther-
mal, electrical, frequent, indispensable, action, industrial, insulator,
super-
conductor:
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