Intonation.

ALTERNATIVE QUESTIONS

Alternative questions have two syntagms. The first syntagm is pronounced with the Low Rise and the second one is pronounced with the Low Fall.

Intone and read:

Exercise 1:

1. Is it a pen or a pencil?

2. Is it a garden or not?

3. Is this a cap or a hat?

4. Is that a pan or a kettle?

5. Is this Olive's or Dorothy's car?

6. Is that animal a tiger or a lion?

7. Is the box light or heavy?

8. Is Bob six or seven?

9. Is Mrs. Nelson twenty-seven or twenty-eight?

10. Is Barbara a secretary or a typist?

11. Is his Dad's name Charles or James?

12. Is Max in San Francisco or in Los Angeles?

13. Is it an easy sentence or a difficult one?

14. Is this a silk dress or a velvet one?

Exercise 2:

1. Are these pots or boxes'?

2. Are these modern cars or not?

3. Are those carpets or cloths?

4. Are these Carl's or Arnold's relatives?

5. Are those children ten or eleven?

6. Are the leaves green or yellow?

7. Are they secretaries or clerks?

8. Are these kiddies in the city or in the village?

9. Are they black bags or yellow ones?

10. Are they golden bracelets or silver ones?

11. Has Tom a cat or a dog?

Practice.

A black cat sat on a mat and ate a fat rat.

A tutor who tooted the flute tried to tutor two tooters to toot. Said the two to the tutor, "Is it harder to toot or to tutor two tooters to toot?"

How can a clam cram in a clean cream can?

Something in a thirty-acre thermal thicket of thorns and thistles

thumped and thundered threatening the three.

The thoughts of Matthew the thug - although, theatrically,

it was only the thirteen-thousand thistles and thorns

through the underneath of his thigh

that the thirty year old thug thought of that morning.

Walter was with us when we went away.

When one has not what one wants,

One must want what one has.

Whether the weather be fine

Or whether the weather be not.

Whether the weather be cold

Or whether the weather be hot.

Be weather the weather

Whatever the weather

Whether we like it or not.

Without your tongue you cannot talk,

Without your feet you cannot walk.

Without your eyes you cannot see,

Without your heart you cannot be.

A cook took a good look at the book.

A good foot stood in the wood.

My doggy is funny

My doggy is small

It likes to run, to hop and to roll

About the carpet like a ball

It never bites me. Not at all.

Read and listen. (Unit 21 d1)

My birthday's on Thursday

Ruth: It's my birthday on Thursday. My sixth birthday.

Arthur: My seventh birthday's on the 13th of next month, so I'm—let me think— 333 days older than you, Ruth.

Ruth: Do you always put your thumb in your mouth when you're doing arith­metic, Arthur?

Arthur: My tooth's loose, Ruth. See? I like maths. I came fourth out of 33. My father's a mathematician.

Ruth: My father's an author. He writes for the theatre. We're very wealthy. When I'm 30 I'll have a thousand pounds.

Arthur: I'm going to be an Olympic athlete. I may be thin but Mr Smith says I've got the strength of three. Watch me. I'll throw this thing the length of the path.

Ruth: Oh Arthur! You've thrown earth all over us both. I'm filthy! Now they'll make me have a bath!

Practise a jazz chant.

Sally Speaks Spanish, But Not Very Well

Sally speaks Spanish, but not very well.

When she tries to speak Spanish,

you really can't tell

what language she's speaking

or trying to speak.

The first time I heard her,

I thought it was Greek.

LESSON 6

FollowArakin p. 64

Watch “BBC pr.tips” [t∫], [d3]. Do phonetic ex-s in Arakin.

Linkin R.

(unit 27 R)(a) roar

run

red

rare

Rome

Rage

rubbish

rabbit

river

really

crying

drowning

Freddie

Angry

carry

worry

mirror

tomorrow

(w)rong

(w)rite

(w)rist

(w)rap

silent ‘r’ final position

car poor fur later near prefer shore care

before consonant harm fierce bird short turn pearl

before silent 'e'

there pure fire here N. B. i(r)on i(r)onmonger i(r)oning

(b) Round the rugged rock the ragged rascal rudely ran.

The hand that rocks the cradle rules the world.

Run rabbit, run rabbit, run, run, run.

Ring-a-ring o' roses.

Aurora Borealis.

Red as a beetroot.

Right as rain.

Merry Christmas, everybody!

1. Follow the rules on p. 67-68 and transcribe:

A

flute gene	coil minus	oust gibe	pail gaum	foe neum
gong	cedar	decent	jockey	breathe
sue	duel	soot	lean	crocus
gesso	final	joyous	hawk	float
В
allow	below	oven	jute	monk
trifle	novel	approve	wast	wort
quarry	wrigley	whip	whole	tights
bind	phase	puncture	nugget	haughty
С
glue	dove	money	none	truce
ruse	bathe	torture	wrangler	jet
plume	rumple	ward	cricket	vocal
scuttle	tarry	rumour	temporal	furnace
dynasty	hurt	hue	humus	wallet
		TEST
shiny	come	watch	page	orphan
law	son	quantity	gin	gesture
boat	mother	thwart	gymnast	knew
low	move	worker	eight	chime
now	love	writer	sigh	thought
sprout	gone	white	daughter	thaw
cousin	novel	whole	give	worthy
group	want	who	ghost	quart
knight	jowl	binder	wild	gnaw
		Revision Lessons 1-6
Transcribe:
A
delicate	sibilant	vanity		ferocity
vicarage	lunatic	puberty		amorous
maudlin	ornate	arrogant		acurrilous
crumpet	typist	bauble		fleecy
exult portray sermon scion friar	violet yule halo advocate portrait	toe scaly lilac mercer Linus		sidle apish bogus gable wallet

В

bleach breezy chime gesture yeast hatcher witch gleam

give tease gems kneel finch creeper gypsy greasy

treacle chilly ginger beaker chide pilch major cheater

sage preacher genus milage jester gene venture creamy