Tongue twisters
[ɪ]
Did Mick quick-kick sick Rick?
Six thick thistle sticks.
The important Indian was ill with injuries inside the igloo.
It`s a pity that little Kitty lives in a big city.
Six little kittens lost their mittens.
It`s a pity, they were so pretty.
[i:]
Feel the heat, breathe, reach your peak, win the meet.
Don’t be a geek.
Pieces of meat get stuck in his teeth when he eats veal steamed with sesame seeds.
Eagles eat electric eels easily.
He speaks Chinese and Japanese with equal ease.
Sounds [ʊ] – [u:]
[u:] is a diphthongoid, back, close, rounded, long.
A
rticulation:
Look at the diagram. The tongue is in the back part of the mouth. The
back of the tongue is rather high in the mouth. The vowel is
diphthongized. No firm contact is made between the rims of the tongue
and the upper teeth. The tongue is tense. The lips are very closely
rounded. The mouth is open only very little. The vowel is long.
Task 1 Listen and then say the sound (A16).
[u:] is often spelled:
oo, ou, oe, u, ue, ew – too group shoe blue
u, ew (there is often a [j]sound before the[u:]) – music new
other spellings of [u:] – two fruit juice
Task 2 Now listen and say these phrases:
me too
work in groups
new shoes
red and blue
listen to the music
forty-two
fruit juice
[ʊ] is a monophthong, back-advanced, close, rounded, short.
A
rticulation:
Look at the diagram. The whole body of the tongue is in the back part
of the mouth. The part of the tongue nearer to the centre than to the
back is raised just above the half-close position. There is no firm
contact between the side rims of the tongue and the upper teeth. The
tongue is rather lax. The lips are rounded. The vowel is short.
Task 3 Listen and then say the sound (A17).
[ʊ]is often spelled:
u, oo (followed by k and in the words good, foot, soot, wood, wool),
ou - full sugar book foot would
o – woman
Task 4 Now listen and say these phrases:
My bag’s full.
Where’s my book?
my left foot
a kilo of sugar
Who’s that woman?
Task 5 Read and transcribe:
cute – mute wood – fume food – flute took – tune |
hook – foot cook – good tattoo – taboo balloon -baboon
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Task 6 Transcribe the words and read:
Cool, room, moon, good, zoo, roof, cook, tube, flute, mute, huge, book, rude, look.
Tongue twisters
[ʊ]
How much wood could a woodchuck could chuck wood? If a woodchuck could chuck wood in a truck, would a woodchuck cluck while the wood was chucked?
He took the book to school.
Put some sugar in the pudding.
The cook took a good look to cookery book.
It`s good he could go on foot.
[u:]
Ulysses usually uses union U-boats.
A Tudor who tooted a flute
Tried to tutor two tooters to toot.
Said the two to their tutor,
“Is it harder to toot
or to tutor two tooters to toot?”
Too good to be true.
The ruler is on the stool.
LESSON 2 Sounds [ʌ] - [a:]
[a:] is a monothphthong, back, open, unrounded, long.
A
rticulation:
Look at the diagram. The mouth is open. The tongue is in the back
part of the mouth. The back of the tongue is only slightly raised. No
contact is made between the rims of the tongue and the upper teeth.
The lips are neutral.
Task 1 Listen and then say the sound (A24).
[a:] is usually spelled:
a, ar - after afternoon ask answer bath bathroom can't class dance fast father glass tomato bar car card far park star start
au, ear, al - aunt laugh heart half (The letter 1 in half is silent.)
Task 2 Listen and say these sentences.
How far's the car park?
We went to a large bar full of film stars.
We're starting in half an hour.
[Λ] is a monophthong, central, mid, unrounded, short.
Articulation: Look at the diagram. The tongue is in the central part of the mouth. The front of the tongue is raised to the back of the hard palate just above the fully open position. No contact is made between the tongue and the upper teeth. The tongue is lax. The jaws are considerably separated. The lips are neutrally open. The vowel is short.
Task 3 Listen and then say the sound (A25).
[Λ] is usually spelled:
u (in an closed syllable), ou, o - bus colour come cup front London luck Monday month mother much nothing number run study sun uncle under
Task 4 Listen and say these sentences:
Good luck with your exam next month!
Take the number one bus.
I said 'Come on Monday', not 'Come on Sunday'.
My brother's studying in London.
Task 5 Read and transcribe:
funny - farmer hut - heart much - March hunter - harder cup - carp
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hug - huge just - June us - use luck - Luke cut - cute
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