Comparison

bore – boat core – coat nor – note more – moat gore – goat

bored – bird born – burn cord – curd lawn – learn torn – turn

Memory Work

1. Well begun – half done.

2. He laughs best, who laughs last.

3. Half heart is not heart.

4. Lucky at cards, unlucky in love.

5. Knife and a fork, bottle and a cork, that is the way you spell New York.

Dialogue

A: Ask it to bark, Margaret.

M: I rather think it can’t bark, Arnold.

A: Can’t bark? But if it can’t bark, it can’t guard the house. Ask it to bark, Margaret.

M: Er … er … can’t you … bark?

A: Bark, can’t you! Bark! Bark!

M: Arnold can bark.

UNIT 10

Consonant [r]

Would you like to come rowing with meand Caroline on Friday? Yes, but I'm terribly busy writing, Rachel ... Oh come on, Blake, take a break! You need to relax.

Consonant [r]Raise the tip of the tongue and curle it toward the beginning of the hard palate without letting it touch the palate.

!!! Linking [r]. When the letter “r” in the word-final position is followed by a vowel, it is usually pronounced, e.g. for all; e.g. over again.

read rid red rare rag

clearer dearer fairer nearer rarer

rain – wane – vein rest – West – vest rent – went – vent rise- wise – vice Rhine – wine – vine

brain brave bray brill

grain grave grey grill

crave crab cram cry

pray prat pram pry

tray train tram try

dream drain dress dry

real risk rest right rule ruby	a pretty prince princess pretender president secretary	a great brain bride groom bridegroom
	The actor painter player reader writer is creative

Memory Work

1. When in Rome do as Romans do.

2. I’d rather be right than President.

3. Green glass globes glow greenly.

4. I scream, you scream, we all scream for ice cream!.

5. When you write copy you have the right to copyright the copy you write.

Dialogue

A: Arthur and Martha are such enthusiasts. They are so enthusiastic.

B: What are they so enthusiastic about?

A: Oh, about everything. Among other things, they’re both very enthusiastic about the theatre.

B: The theatre. Mm

A: I loathe the theatre. And I loathe enthusiasts.

B: I loathe Arthur and Martha.

UNIT 11

Consonant [j] Vowels [u:][ʊ]

Did you use to use a computer when you were younger? No. When I was young there didn't use to be any computers. I just used to play with a yo-yo ... um ... have you got ayo-yo? No, just a computer.

Consonant [j] Raise the middle of the tongue to the [i] position and force the breathy out with voice.

yes yet yell yam

Yates Yale yield yeast

L – yell S – yes ate – yet am – yam

I should put the food on that huge plate, shouldn’t I? Yes, you should. Oh, what a beautiful plate of food we’vejust put!

Vowel [u:] Round the lips, raise the tongue high and back and make a long voiced sound.

oof ooze you use do coo youth drew

moo too queue mew food mood new pew

moon pool cute dupe fool school mute tube

you do flew fooled knew used

two beauties pupils students tutors

Do you do? fool lose sue use

Vowel [ʊ] Push the lips out slightly, raise the tongue midway in the mouth and make a short voiced sound, shorter than for [u:].

bull pull full could put

should would book took look

could – cook should – shook pull – push cook – cool took – tool pull – pool

a good book cook put pull push

could do fool lose sue use

Memory Work

1. A good beginning makes a good ending.

2. If a good cook could cook cuckoos

And if a good cook could cook cuckoos all the time

How many cuckoos could a good cook cook

If a good cook could cook cuckoos?

3. No news is good news.

4. A shooting suit that’s suitable for shooting

Should be made of a suiting that is suitable

If not made of a suiting that is suitable

Then that shooting suit’s not suitable for shooting.

5. A tutor who taught on the flute

Tried to teach two young tooters to toot

Said the two to the tutor:

“Is it harder to toot, or to tutor two tooters to toot? ”

UNIT 12	Vowels [ɒ] and [əʊ]
What’s wrong? I’ve got a really bad headache. Oh, no … why? I don’t know. I’m sorry to hear that.

Vowels [ɒ] Short, lax, slightly rounded.

odd on oft ox

want was wash what

cob – cop cod – cot log – lock mob – mop

from Dobson Dolly Hopkins Moscow Oxford

a lot of clocks dogs locks socks stops

hot dog bottle coffee pot wash

Vowels[əʊ] The lips are neutral for the first sound and slightly rounded for the second sound.

oh ode own oak oath

bone cone loan moan known

go low mo no so

bow – boat doe – dote go – goat mow – moat no – note

Ben – bone – burn Ken – cone – kern fen – phone – fern Len – loan – learn ten – tone – turn

so old cold lonely homely open

I won’t open show go hold smoke

Memory Work

1. Home is home. Be it ever so homely.

2. Oh, no, don’t go home alone,

Nobody knows how lonely the road is.

3. The more we study, the more we know

Dialogue

A: Do you smoke?

B: No, I don’t. Do you smoke?

A: Yes, I’m a heavy smoker.

B: I used to smoke.

A: Why did you stop.

B: I got a smoker’s cough.

A: Poor chap.

B: I had to stop smoking. Soon, I hope to stop coughing.