B) Make up sentences of your own using these idiomatic expressions. Ask about Thad, Theo, Martha, Kenneth, Arthur, Thornton, Thorp, Theodore.

E. g. Thad’ll go through thick and thin.

◊ Exercise 5. Listen and repeat:

thank you Ethel Judith

thought author worth

thousand nothing Mrs Smith

thirsty something Smiths’

Thursday birthday Edith

thirty-three mathematician moths

◊Exercise 6. Read the dialogue. Learn it. Act out the dialogue:

Gossips

Judith: Edith Smith is only thirty.

Ethel: Is she? I thought she was thirty-three.

Judith: Edith’s birthday was last Thursday.

Ethel: Was it? I thought it was last month.

Judith: The Smiths’ house is worth thirty thousand pounds.

Ethel: Is it? I thought it was worth three thousand.

Judith: Mr Smith is the author of a book about moths.

Ethel: Is he? I thought he was a mathematician.

Judith: I’m so thirsty.

Ethel: Are you? I thought you drank something at Smiths’.

Judith: No. Edith gave me nothing to drink.

Ethel: Shall I buy you a drink?

Judith: Thank you.

Exercise 7. Give the Russian equivalents of the proverbs. Learn them. Make up a dialogue to illustrate one of the proverbs:

1. When three Thursdays come together.

2. Thread and thrum.

3. Wealth is nothing without health.

Exercise 8. Make a conversation, using the phrases from the dialogue. Work in pairs. :

A: Judith is at the theatre.

B: Is she? I thought she was at the Smiths’.

A: Judith is at the theatre.

Mr Smith is thirty-three.

It’s Edith’s birthday today.

I’m so thirsty.

The Smiths’ house is north.

Mrs Smith is thirty.

The Smiths’ house is worth £ 30000.

B: Are you? I thought you drank something.

Is she? I thought she was at the Smiths’

Is he? I thought he was thirty.

Is she? I thought she was thirty-tree.

Is it? I thought it was last month.

Is it? I thought it was worth £3,000.

Is it? I thought it was south.

Unit 9. The Sound [ð]

The sound [ð] occurs in word initial, word medial and word final positions. [ð] is spelt «th» as in they, father, with. Definition. [ð] is constrictive fricative, forelingual, interdental, weak and voiced, in final position it is partly devoiced. Articulation. 1. The tip of the tongue is either close to the edge of the upper teeth or slightly projected between the teeth. 2. The vocal cords vibrate for [ð] when it occurs in word initial position, before a vowel or in intervocalic positions, eg. thus, rather. Allophones. The partially devoiced [ð] occurs in word final positions, eg. breathe, with, bathe.

◊ Exercise 1. a) Listen and repeat:

Sound 1 Sound 2

Dan than

day they

dare there

doze those