Tongue twisters
[t]
Don't trouble trouble, until trouble troubles you!
If you trouble trouble, triple trouble troubles you!
A Tudor who tooted the flute
Tried to tutor two tooters to toot.
Said the two to the tutor,
"Is it harder to toot or
To tutor two tooters to toot?"
[d]
When a doctor doctors a doctor,
Does the doctor doing the doctoring
Doctor as the doctor being doctored wants to be doctored or
Does the doctor doing the doctoring doctor as he wants to doctor?
LESSON 8 Sounds [k]-[g]
[k] is a consonant, occlusive, plosive, backlingual, voiceless, oral.
Articulation:
Look
at the diagram. The vocal cords are kept apart and do not vibrate.
The soft palate is raised. The back of the tongue makes a firm
contact with the soft palate. The air coming from the lungs is
trapped for a short time and then breaks the obstruction with a
slight explosion.
Task 1 Listen and then say the sound (B2).
[k] is usually spelled:
c car cat careful clean close colour fact
k keep key kind kitchen desk like talk walk
ck back black check pocket tick
ch school stomach chemist architect
[kw] is often spelled qu: quick quiet quarter
[ks] is often spelled x: fax six taxi
Note: The letter k is silent in a few words: know, knee, knife.
Task 2 Listen and say these sentences:
1 Look in the kitchen cupboard.
Keep your keys in your pocket.
[g] is a consonant, occlusive, plosive, backlingual, voiced, oral.
Articulation:
Look at the diagram. The vocal cords are brought together and
vibrate. The soft palate is raised. The back of the tongue makes a
firm contact with the soft palate. The air coming from the lungs is
trapped for a short time and then breaks the obstruction with a
slight explosion.
Task 3 Listen and then say the sound (B3).
Listen and say the sounds [k] and [g].
[g] is usually spelled:
g garden girl glass go gold ago hungry bag leg
gg egg bigger
[gz] is sometimes spelled x: exam exactly
Note: The letter g is silent in some words :foreigner, sign, high, bought.
There is usually no [g] sound in words like sing, sings, singing, singer.
Some words have a silent u after g: guess guest dialogue
Task 4 Now listen and say these sentences:
1 Can you guess the beginning of the dialogue?
2 Are you going jogging again?
Note: You often don't hear [k] or [g]clearly in the middle or at the end of a word. Listen.
I li(k)ed the film - the a(c)ting was perfe(c)t.
Do you li(ke) fo(lk) musi(c)?
It was a dar(k) night.
What's your do(g) called?
Task 5 Pronounce correctly and spell the words:
[bed], [bæd], [pa:k], [ba:k], [læb], [gæp], [kæp], [kræb], [kɒp], [nɒt], [test], [tʌsk], [tɪp], [net], [slept], [taɪm], [taɪ], [taɪp], [lɪtl], [tɔ:l], [bɒtl], [təuld], [pa:st], [ha:t], [da:k], [pedl], [∫eɪd], [`hɒlɪdɪ], [`deɪlɪ], [lend], [bæd], [glæd], [dɪg], [du:], [`stju:dənt], [`dɪfikə1t], [dɔ:(r)], [kaɪnd], [ki:],[wi:k], [kəuld], [ka:], [klɒk], [skeɪt], [skaɪ],[da;k], [klaud], [si:k], [keɪk], [gud], [greɪt], [gɪv], [bæg], [gəu], [get], [mʌg], [geɪt], [leg], [dɒg], [gə:l].
Task 6 Transcribe the following sentences:
Six little kittens lost their mittens.
My tea is sweet enough.
East or West home is best.
Come back as quick as you can.
A watched pot never boils.
Task 7 Read the dialogue and act it in pairs:
- Hello.
- Hello, Ma. It's your son, Donald. I've got news for you.
- What news?
- I've just got married.
- But why didn't you tell me? Why so sudden? Why must I find out like this?
- Well, Ma, there's a little trouble. She's —she's — she's Albanian.
- How terrible! You know I always wanted you to marry a nice English girl. Foreigners are so unreliable. Well, perhaps Albanians make fine wives and mothers.
- But, Ma, you see there's another little difficulty. She's a few years older than me. She's a widow and she's got children already.
- Oh, my son! What have you done to me? How can you upset me so much? How much older is she? How many children has she got?
- Well, she's forty-eight and she's got six children.
- Oh, Donald, my only son! You're breaking my heart. How terrible! Well, I suppose you must make the best of it.
- There's another little trouble, Ma. We've nowhere to stay.
- Don't worry, my son. You can stay here in my flat with your wife and her children.
- But, Ma, then where will you stay?
- Don't worry, my son. When I've put this phone down I'm dropping dead.