Practice the pronunciation of the following words and word combinations. Learn them by heart.
Tool [tu:1]
screwdriver [‘skru:,draiv?]
to tend [tend]
invention [in’ven?(?)n]
reverse [ri’vç:s]
fossils [‘fos(?)1]
ancestor [‘?nsest?]
anthropologist [,?n?r?’po1?d3ist]
manual dexterity [‘m?nju?1 dek’steriti]
intelligence [in’te1id3(?)ns]
inherited [in’heritid]
to design [di’zain]
serve [sç:v]
device [di’vais]
to transmit information [tr?nz’mit ,in??’mei?(?)n]
to preserve [pri’zç:v]
to modify information [‘modi,?ai ,in??’mei?(?)n]
information processing [,in??’mei?(?)n ‘pr?usesi?]
forerunner [‘?o:,r?n?]
abacus [‘?b?k?s]
frame [?reim]
pebble [‘peb(?)1]
calculate [‘k?1kju,1eit]
sophisticated [s?’?isti,keitid]
unreliable [,?nri’1ai?b(?)1]
mechanical technology [mi’k?nik(?)1 tek’no1?d3i]
sufficient precision [s?’?i ?(?)nt pri’si3(?)n]
techniques [tek’ni:ks ]
punched card [‘p?nt?t ‘k?:d]
to weave [wi:v]
descendant [di’send(?)nt]