This document provides an excerpt from the novel Coraline by Neil Gaiman and includes vocabulary and pronunciation exercises based on words from the excerpt. The excerpt describes the narrator's family moving into a flat in 1987 that was originally built as a manor house for the King of England's physician. It has since been converted into flats. The exercises that follow focus on defining vocabulary words from the text, classifying them, identifying stress patterns, writing sentences using the words, and substituting phonetic transcriptions.

1. Coraline by Neil Gaiman
a. Read the text.
We move into our flat in Littlemead, in the tiny Sussex town of Nutley, in the south of
England, in 1987. Once upon a time it had been a manor house, built for the physician to
the King of England himself, so I was told by the old man who had once owned the house
(before he sold it to a pair of local builders). It had been a very grand house then, but it was
now converted into flats.
b. What is the definition of the words in bold?
* great: __________
* a large country house with lands: ________
* minuscule: ________
* apartment: ________
* constructed: ________
c. Classify the words into categories. Look at the example.
WORD NOUN VERB ADJECTIVE
house 
flat
tiny
manor
built
grand
d. Identify the stress.
WORD O Oo
house 
flat
tiny
manor
built
grand

2. e. Match the pronunciation with the word.
WORD PHONETIC SYMBOLS
1. house a. /ɡrænd/
2. flat b. /ˈmæn.ər
/
3. tiny c. /bɪlt/
4. manor d. /flæt/
5.built e. /haʊs/
6. grand f. /ˈtaɪ.ni/
f. Which phonemes are similar?
1._______________
2._______________
3._______________
4._______________
g. Write down different synonyms of the words. IN ENGLISH.
WORD SYNONYMS
1. house
2. flat
3. tiny
4. manor
5.built
6. grand

3. h. Write one positive sentence and one negative sentence with each word. At the end
you will have 12.
house
1.______________________________________________________________________________________________
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2.______________________________________________________________________________________________
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flat
3.______________________________________________________________________________________________
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4.______________________________________________________________________________________________
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tiny
5.______________________________________________________________________________________________
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6_______________________________________________________________________________________________
________________________________________________________________________________________________
manor
7.______________________________________________________________________________________________
________________________________________________________________________________________________
8.______________________________________________________________________________________________
________________________________________________________________________________________________
built
9.______________________________________________________________________________________________
________________________________________________________________________________________________
10._____________________________________________________________________________________________
________________________________________________________________________________________________
grand
11._____________________________________________________________________________________________
________________________________________________________________________________________________
12._____________________________________________________________________________________________
________________________________________________________________________________________________

4. a. Read the text.
Write the word using the phonetic description.
Flat number /fɔːr
/,where we lived, was a /ɡʊd/ place, if a /ˈlɪt.ə
l/ odd. Above us, a Greek
family. /bɪˈniːθ/ us, a little old lady, half blind, who would telephone me whenever my
little /ˈtʃɪl.drən/ moved, and tell me that she was not /ˈsɜː.tə
n/ what was happening
upstairs, but she thought that there were elephants. I was never entirely /ʃɔːr
/ how
many flats there were in the house, nor how many of them were /ˈɒk.jə.paɪd/.
1._____________
2._____________
3._____________
4._____________
5._____________
6._____________
7._____________
8._____________
b. Write a paragraph using these words, from 20 to 50 words.

5. c. Identify the pronunciation.
WORD O Oo oO Ooo
flat 
d. Write different synonyms to the words.
WORD SYNONYMS
flat apartment
Taken from:
Coraline by Neil Gaiman
Adapted by:
Mayahuel Pacheco Benítez