Кировский институт иностранных языков

ПРАКТИЧЕСКИЙ КУРС АНГЛИЙСКОГО ЯЗЫКА

УЧЕБНО-МЕТОДИЧЕСКОЕ ПОСОБИЕ ДЛЯ СТУДЕНТОВ 1 КУРСА ПЕРЕВОДЧЕСКОГО ФАКУЛЬТЕТА

КИРОВ 2012

Практический курс английского языка: Учебно-методическое пособие для студентов 1 курса переводческого факультета. – Киров: НОУ ВПО КИИЯ, 2012

Составитель: Лекомцева Н.А. преп. каф. теории языка

Рецензент : Гребенкина Н.А. преп. каф. теории языка

©Лекомцева Н.Н.

©КИИЯ

LESSON 1

1. Study the main organs of speech Arakin p.8-9

2. Find russian equivalents: mouth cavity, pharynx, nasal cavity, larynx, lower lip, tongue, the front of the tongue, the middle part of the tongue, the back of the tongue, the root of the tongue, the tip of the tongue, soft palate, uvula, vocal cords, upper lip, upper teeth, alveolar, hard palate. P. 9

3. Make it clear that you understand the difference between vowels and consonants. (p.9) Make sure you understand the terms: Palatalization, positional length of vowels, glottal stop, word-stress. Study the transcription signs. Find an example word to each sound.

4. BBC pronunciation tips. [ k, g, t, d, n, s, z, θ, ð, p, b, m]

1. “BBC pronunciation tips”, sound [i], [e]. MIND: English lip position.

2. Arakin P.16 Ph. Ex.1

3. Read and listen. (ex.18-25 Aorg)

[nip,’pikit,pit, ‘piti, tip, tit, tik, /tikit,kip, kik, ‘kiti,kidi,’kidni]

[bim, vim, kim, pimp, dim, tim, fin, pin, kin, tin]

[sik, sip, ‘signit, sift, sit, sins, sis, sisi, siks, ‘siksti, ‘sit ‘in, ip, ‘sikstiz]

[lim – mil, slim – film, lik – kil, lip – pil, it – til, lift – fil, ‘limit – milk, ‘linin – nil, ‘lili – il, ‘sili – sil, ‘kilik – kil, ‘simili, ‘sisili, ‘listlisli]

[him, hip, hint, hit, hil, ‘hili, hilt]

[piŋ – piŋk, liŋ – liŋ, siŋ – siŋk, liŋ – fliŋ, kiŋ, ziŋk, miŋk, nitiŋ, siŋ - siŋiŋ, fliŋ – fliŋiŋ]

[mig, fig, gig, fib, nib, giv, siv, ‘misiv, iz, hiz, ‘misiz, mid, fid, ‘vivid, kid, did, lid, gild, lind, ‘limpid]

[ pig – pik, iz – kis, giv – if]

4. Ph.ex 2, 3

5. (unit 01 [p]) Hold your hand upright in front of your mouth, so that your fingers are just touching your nose. Make sure that you feel a definite explosion of air each time you say [p].

Percy	pass	pet	presume	expensive
perfect	put	poor	practical	expect
purpose	pot	post	pride	explain
people	pay	pack	pretty	explore
Popplewell	pound	pun	present	explode
			silent 'p'
porridge	puce	uphill	(p)neumonia	cu(p)board	cou(p)
possible	puny	upheaval	(p)salm	ras(p)berry	cor(ps)
parcel	computer	upholstery	(p)sychology	recei(p)t

6. Listen to the tongue twisters and proverbs. Practise them with the recording and learn by heart.

Practice makes perfect.

The proof of the pudding is in the eating.

Promises and piecrusts are made to be broken.

Penny plain, twopence coloured.

To rob Peter to pay Paul.

Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers.

A peck of pickled peppers Peter Piper picked.

If Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers,

where's the peck of pickled peppers Peter Piper picked?

B. Listen to the tape. Which is she saying? Underline the right word in each pair.

(a) pig/big

(b) pill/fill

(c) pen/ten

(d) pick/thick

(e) pat/bat

(f) post/boast

(g) pan/can

(h) pole/hole

(i) pop/bop

7. Write a phonetic dictation.

8. * (unit 01d1) Listen to the dialogue. Practise it in pairs. Mind [p] sound.

A present for Penelope

Peter: Pass the pepper, will you, please, Percy, old chap?

Percy: Pepper? You're not proposing to put pepper on your porridge?

Peter: Shut up, Percy! Why do you always presume that I'm stupid?

Percy: Well, stop snapping and explain the purpose of the pepper pot.

Peter: It's perfectly simple. I want to compare our pepper pot with the pepper pot

I've bought as a present for Penelope Popplewell. Percy: A practical—but pretty expensive—present!

Peter: Well, she's a super person. I thought perhaps, if you happened to be passing the Post Office . . . Could you possibly pop the parcel in the post?

Percy: Am I expected to pay the postage on this pepper pot for Penelope Popplewell?

Peter: Percy, you're impossible! I may be poor but I have my pride! Here's £1 for the postage.

Hometask: record your voice while practising ex-s. Learn “Peter Piper” by heart.

Read and practise.

A critical critic cracked his neck at a critical cricket match.

I can make my voice go really high. I can make my voice go really low.

Can you can a can as a canner can can a can?

There was a fisherman named Fisher who fished for some fish in a fissure. Till a fish with a grin, pulled the fisherman in. Now they're fishing the fissure for Fisher.

LESSON 2

Follow Arakin book p. 19 and practice the sounds. Ph. ex-s.

Make sure you understand the essence of the terms: assimilation, lateral plosion, intonation, sentence-stress, nuclear tone, rhythm, low-fall, low rise.

Watch “BBC pr. tips” [l], [f], [v], [j], [ə].

Hometask. Transcribe the words:

still	penny	tips	thin
tipe	little	spill	sell
pity	fill	them	kiss
kill	belt	kettle	six
city	yell	spend	less
neck	miss	beds	yet

Shwa-sound. Watch BBC pr.tip for this.

(unit 12 shwa) Listen and practise.

(a) about among ago	combine command confuse	potato police propose	succession tradition occasion	actor doctor motor
water danger driver	theatre centre metre	extra sofa china	human woman German	postman Englishman gentleman
husband company servant	England Scotland Iceland	curtain certain Britain	dozen written often	student entertainment intelligent
Lesson Bacon cotton	adventure future pleasure	generous ridiculous nervous	photographer stenographer caligrapher	apology philology biology
thorough borough	Peterborough Edinburgh	St. Joan St. Ives	Venus asparagus	cousin basin
(b) The vanishing syllable. comf(or)table caref(u)lly veg(e)table practic(a)lly adm(i)rable strawb(e)rry		list(e)ning lit(e)rature med(i)c(i)ne	rest(au)rant cam(e)ra secret(a)ry	ord(i)nary extr(a)ord(i)n(a)ry diff(e)rent

(c) A Doctor of Philosophy

A command performance

A picture of innocence

A baker's dozen

To bet your bottom dollar

To take your pleasures seriously

The Department of the Environment

The Iron Curtain

The Listening Library

The Garden of Eden

To harbour a grudge

Nature is the best healer

Nothing succeeds like success

Necessity is the mother of invention

A handsome husband—or ten thousand a year?

An Englishman's home is his castle

Here today, gone tomorrow

Never put off till tomorrow what you can do today

Never do today what you can get someone else to do tomorrow!