1. Read the words. Mind! /t/ is voiceless and /d/ is voiced.

let–lead wet–wed

bat–bad write–ride

got–god site–side

rot–rod white–wide

2. Words containing phonemes /t–d/:

Personal names

Teddy, Theodore, Theresa, Thomas, Timothy, Tristan, Tib / Tibbe (from Isabel), Tilda (from Mathilda), Claud, David.

US states

Colorado, Connecticut, Delaware, Florida, Idaho, Indiana, Kentucky, Maryland, Minnesota, Nevada, North Dakota, Rhode Island, South Dakota, Tennessee, Texas, Utah, Vermont, Washington, West Virginia.

Seas, oceans, rivers, lakes

Adriatic, Baillie, Dead, Mediterranean. Red, While. Arctic, Atlantic, Indian, Chad, Great Bear, Great Salt, Great Slave, Ontario, Titicaca, Victoria, Danube, Delaware, Dnieper, Dniester, Don, Hudson, Jorgiun, Kio Uruiulc, Tigris. Volga.

Cities

Addis-Ababa, Alexandria, Amsterdam, Atlanta, Baltimore, Beirut, Budapest, Calcutta, Cardiff, Cleveland, Dacca, Dakar, Dallas, Damascus, Denver, Detroit, Dover, Dresden, Dublin, Frankfurt, Houston, Katmandu, London, Luanda, Madrid, Manchester, Montevideo, New Delhi, Oakland, Odessa, Ottawa.

Countries

Barbados, Bhutan, Canada, Chad, Costa-Rica, Denmark, Ecuador, El Salvador, Finland, Great Britain, Guatemala, Haiti, Honduras, Iceland, India, Indonesia, Ireland, Italy, Jordan, Kuwait, Malta, Vietnam, New Zealand, Pakistan, Poland, Portugal, Sudan, Swaziland, Sweden, Switzerland.

Famous names

Aristotle, Buddha, Cervantes, Dante, Darwin, da Vinci, Dickens, Diderot, Diogenes, Dostoyevsky, Einstein, Freud, Gutenberg, Hippocrates, Hitler, Kennedy. Newton, Pasternak, Plato, Roosevelt, Socrates, Stalin, Tolstoy, Turgenev, Washington.

Sounds /T–t/

Mind the difference:

/T/ – is pronounced with the tongue between the teeth.

/t/ – is pronounced with the tip of the tongue at the alveolar ridge.

1. Read the words taking care to pronounce the phonemes /t‒t/.

thank–tank oaths–oats

thick–tick faiths–fates

three–tree pithy–pity

thrill–trill fourth–fort

thorn–torn

death–debt

faith–fate

both–boat

sheaths–sheets

2. Listen to these pairs of words. Some of them are minimal, some identical. Raise your hands if they are identical:

boat–both

mitts–mitts

trust–thrust

thorn–torn

thank–thank

theme–team

thick–tick

deaths–debts

thorn–thorn

4. Give the contrasting item of a minimal pair:

thought –

tin –

trust –

theme –

thread –

ether –

rot –

mitts –

5. Words containing phonemes /T–t/.

Names:

Teddy, Tarry, Theobald, Thomas, Timothy, Tina, Tristan, Rita, Peter, Judith, Kathleen, Kitty, Anthony, Batty, Arthur, Jonathan, Pat, Ruth, Elisabeth.

Countries and places:

Athens, the Carpathians, Latvia, Lithuania, Ethiopia, Portugal, South America, Tahiti, Tokyo, Toronto, Turkey, Texas.

6. Sing a song "Three blue pigeons".

Three blue pigeons |

Sitting on the wall | 2 times

One flew away. O-o-o-oh.

Two blue pigeons |

Sitting on the wall | 2 times

Another flew away. O-o-o-o-h.

One blue pigeon |

Sitting on the wall | 2 times

And the third flew away. O-o-o-o-h.