“dearest creature in creation, study english pronunciation. i will teach you in my verse sounds like corpse, corps, horse, and worse. i will keep you, suzy, busy, make your head with heat grow dizzy. tear in eye, your dress will tear. so shall i! oh hear my prayer.” it’s a famous poem about difficulties in english spelling and pronunciation. you know that some words have the same spelling but different pronunciation and meaning just like the words ‘tear’ and ‘tear’ in the verse. in the following sentences find the words that can have more than one pronunciation and meaning. write them out. 1) do people still have to bow to the queen? 2) lead is a chemical element that is a soft heavy grey metal. 3) our lawyer went over the contract in minute detail.

'bow', 'lead', 'minute', i think

Evgeni plushenko was born in sunny khabarovsk krai. when he was 3 years old , the family moved to volgograd. at the age of 4 years started skating , which introduced him to his mother , tatyana plushenko. due to the closure of the volgograd ice arena in which trained eugene , he had 11 years without parents to move to st. petersburg, mother followed later. father victor plushenko , carpenter by profession, and sister helen remained in volgograd. in 1998 plushenko finished secondary school number 91 of the petrograd district of st. petersburg . since 1994, plushenko - student youth figure skating in st. petersburg . in 2000 plushenko enrolled in 2005 graduated from st. petersburg state university of physical culture lesgaft . since 2004 - the student - externae faculty of tourism and hospitality management , st. petersburg state university of engineering and economics . plushenko became coach alexei mishin . convinced of the talent eugene, he was for three years, paid his st. petersburg apartment , while plushenko trained group with alexei urmanov and alexei yagudin . the latter became his long-term rival , especially after his move to the outstanding coach tatiana tarasova . competition between plushenko and yagudin stopped after leaving the last of the sport due to injury . since then, the main rival plushenko became brian joubert of france. evgeni plushenko was the first skater in history , shows a combination of a quadruple toe loop - triple toe loop - triple loop ( at the cup of russia in 2002) , the first among men performed rotation biellmann cascade triple axel - triple flip - euler (2001 ), etc.