Sound Practice

A. Listen to the fable, concentrate on the words containing the letter O; group them in accordance with the sounds it represents in speech. Explain the reading rules in writing. Define the structure of the stressed syllables. Example: // – dog (CVC).

1) // – don’t, so, go;

2) // – dog, stop, not, moral;

3) // – because; horse;

4) // – too, you, do, to;

5) // – cow, ours;

6) // – some, others;

7) // – would;

8) // – into.

B. Listen to the dialogues, practise reading them, linking the words smoothly. Lay stress-and-tone marks. Record the dialogues.

a) - Are you going to the party with  Alan?

• I can’t go with  Alan.

• Or with  Eric?

• I can’t go with  Eric.

• Oh.

• Why don’t you go with both  of them?

• To tell you the truth,  I can’t go with  eithre.

• You’re not going?

• I’m going with  Alec.

• With  Alec? Both  of us? [Mortimer:49]

b) - One cup  only, Mrs Lobb,  I think... I diet,  actually. No bread,  of course... oh, that beautiful cake,  if you like. Not very big,  I beg you... oh, too much,  I assure you. Well, that’s not large,  I suppose... If  I have to have  a double portion please make the second slice small. Cream? On both  – oh dear! With  even more cream? Really, this  is  excessive... I wish  I could persuade you not to...

• Some jam  on  it?

• Nothing else.

• Ah.

• The jam will  indeed be the climax! [Mortimer:55]

C. Listen to the fable. Write down the word combinations in which final consonants are linked to initial vowels. Add examples from your text book (The New English Course). Practise reading them smoothly.

ran into a stable  and jumped  into the manger. hay in  it. horse  and cow don’t  eat hay, you don’t need  it It  is  ours. It  is  our dinner

If  I can’t  eat  it, then  I let you eat  it  either!” “Because  I don’t like to see you what  I can’t  eat So the horse  and the cow stop  others

Intonation Practice

A. Classify the intonation groups you hear according to the nuclear tones. Mark the falling tone with F, the rising tone with R. Give tonograms.

a) One _/day | (R)

b) a dog ran into a stable |

c) and jumped into the manger

1. “You don’t eat hay,

2. so you don’t need it,” said the cow. “

3. “Why?” asked the cow.

4. “Go away!”

5. Do not stop others |

6. having what you don’t need.||

B. Ask special questions to each sentence of the fable. Write them down, lay stresses and tone marks. Record them. Comment on the use of tones in them.

C. Listen to the following sentences of the fable, write them down, divide the sentences you hear into intonation groups, explain in writing the rules of syntagmatic division.

1. “You don’t eat hay, so you don’t need it,” said the cow.

2. “We want the hay. It is ours. It is our dinner,” said the horse.

3. But the dog said, “If I can’t eat it, then I shall not let you eat it either!”

4. “Why?” asked the cow.

5. “Why?” asked the horse.

6. “Because I don’t like to see you eat what I can’t eat too,” said the dog. “Go away!”

D. Retell the fable imitating the speaker’s intonation.