- •Липецкий государственный педагогический университет
- •1. Read the exercise, paying attention to the degree of aspiration of the voiceless consonants [p], [t], [k].
- •1. Read the exercise, paying attention to the articulation of the long and short vowels.
- •2. Read the exercise, paying attention to the differences in the articulation of the vowels.
- •3. Read the sentences, paying attention to the intonation.
- •1. Read the exercise paying attention to the differences in the articulation of the monophthongs and diphthongs.
- •2. Read the exercise paying attention to the articulation of the voiced and voiceless consonants.
- •Intonation Exercises
- •1. Read each of the phrases below three times: with the falling, rising and falling-rising intonation.
- •2. Read the questions with the intonation appropriate for each question type.
- •4. Listen to the conversation below. Mark the intonation and be prepared to comment on it. Practise reading the dialogue together with a partner.
- •Violent Bolivian Lover Obsessed by Vow of Revenge
- •Inflation Hits Russian Champagne
- •Irish Fishing Ship Sinks in Pacific Ocean
- •1. The consonant is a sound in the production of which the air stream meets an obstruction in the mouth cavity and a certain degree of noise is heard.
- •1.The vowel is a sound in the production of which the air stream does not meet an obstruction and there is no noise component.
- •The west end
- •In June this year I’ll finish school,
- •Ian’s going to be a millionaire.
- •Intonation Revision Exercise
- •Insert the missing verbs in the passage below. Listen and check your answers. Mark the intonation and practise reading the passage aloud.
Insert the missing verbs in the passage below. Listen and check your answers. Mark the intonation and practise reading the passage aloud.
A cleaning woman shot in a bank robbery in Cricklewood yesterday evening. She said to be safe and comfortable in hospital. The bank broken into by two masked men. They have not yet found. A total of ₤1 million stolen I the robbery, and a bag of jewels kept in a bank safe by Lady Crickle who told the bad news late last night by the bank manager.
‘most of my jewels made of gold’, she told reporters. ‘My favourite ring made in china three hundred years ago. I can’t possibly buy another one.’
A red Ford Fiesta seen near the bank and later found in a car park at Heathrow Airport. A reward offered by the police for any information about the crime.
Text 8
Break the paragraph into short sections, practise reading it. Prepare model reading of the passage.
I was fifteen. He was nineteen and already doing well. He was a tailor like his father and worked with him. One day my grandmother came and called me she took me to one side and said,
‘Zeina, you’re going to marry Sobhi.’
‘But, Setti, how do I marry him?’ I asked.
He was my cousin: the son of my dead mother’s sister, but I knew nothing of marriage.
‘You’ll be his wife and he’ll be your husband and you’ll serve him and do what he tells you.’
I started to cry.
‘Will I have to leave you, Setti?’
The old woman took me in her arms.
‘No, no, you’ll have your own room in the house and I’ll always be with you. You’re a big girl now. You can cook and clean and look after a man and he’s your cousin, child, he’s not a stranger.’
Well… I went out to the other girls in the yard but my heart was full of my new importance. I didn’t say anything but in a few hours everyone knew anyway and Sobhi stopped coming to our part of the house. From the time Setti told me, I only saw him again on the wedding night.
Learn the poem:
Sledging by Starlight
By Alexander Reid
Good-bye to the days of the bicycle
The days that are blue and are gold.
And welcome the nights of the icicle
And stars sharpened bright by the cold.
To bathe I warm seas in bright summer
Is pleasant enough in a way.
But what can compare with the rush through the air
As you dash down a hill on a sleigh.
One push – and you’re off, you’re flying!
Hold tight! How the starts stream away!
Oh what can compare with the rush through the air
As you dash down a hill on a sleigh.
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