The raven and the jug

A big, black raven wanted a drink. She saw a big jug with water at the bottom. She could not reach the water and wondered what to do.

“I know,” she said. “I shall put some stones in the jug. Then the water will come up to the top.” After the first stone, the water rose a little. Then she put in another stone, and the water rose more. She put in more and more stones until the water came up to the top of the jug.

“Now I can reach the water. At last I can have a drink,” said the raven. So she had a very long drink.

Moral: If you try hard enough, you may find you can do something that at first seems very difficult.

Task 9. Listen to the following dialogues. Concentrate on the intonation of answers to yes/no questions. Write the dialogues down. Lay stresses and tone marks. Practise reading the dialogues. Formulate the rules of grammatical structure and their intonational organisation of answers to yes/no questions. Do it in writing.

Thompson p.31-42.

Task 10. Exercises based on the text of the fable.

Sound Practice

A. Listen to the fable. Transcribe the words containing the phonemes you have learnt. Practise their reading.

/ / /     

    / / //

B. Listen to the combinations of words, define phonetic processes taking place at the junction of words.

in the (dental /n/)

had some (fricative plosion)

when the (dental /n/)

wanted to (loss of plosion)

eat their (dental //)

would not (nasal plosion)

not let (lateral plosion)

let them (dental //)

don’t need (nasal plosion)

said the (dental //)

want the (dental //)

but the (dental //)

asked the (dental //)

don’t like (lateral plosion)

like to (loss of plosion)

eat what (labialized /t/)

eat too (loss of plosion)

and the(dental //)

had to (loss of plosion)

not stop (fricative plosion)

C. Put the following verbs in the right column according to the pronunciation of their ending:

looked, jumped, started, wanted, cried, asked, dropped, climbed, called, missed, cooed, lived, hopped, shouted, wondered.

//	//	//

D. Listen to the fable, concentrate on the words containing the letter O; group the words in accordance with the sounds it represents in speech. Explain the reading rules in writing. Give qualitative and quantitative changes of some phonemes when used in unstressed positions.

// dog, not, stop

// into, to,

too,

you,

do

// some, others

// horse

// into, to, some

// would

// so, go,

don’t

// cow

E. Listen to the sentences, write them down, lay stresses and tone marks, transcribe the sentences, define the cases of reduction in them. Do it in writing.

1. One day a dog ran into a stable and jumped into the manger.

2. The manger had some hay in it.

3. If I can’t eat it, then I shall not let you eat it either!

d) You don’t eat hay, so you don’t need it.