Tongue twisters
[ʌ]
The duck ducks under a dock.
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?
You must not touch the luggage.
As snug as a bug in a rug.
Tough luck.
[a:]
Arnie and Arthur are army archers.
He laughs best who laughs last.
Far from heart, far from eyes.
It`s enough to make the cat laugh.
Half heart is no heart.
Sounds [ɒ] - [ɔ:]
[ɒ] is a monophthong, back, open, rounded, short.
A
rticulation:
Look at the diagram. It is articulated with the mouth wide open and
slight open lip-rounding. The body of the tongue is even more
retracted than in the case with the vowel [a:]. The back of the
tongue is only slightly raised. No contact is made between the rims
of the tongue and the upper teeth.
Task 1 Listen and say the sound(A30).
[ɒ] is usually spelled:
o (in a closed syllable), a - bottle box chocolate clock coffee copy cost cross doctor dog gone got holiday hospital hot job lock long lost lot not off often possible shop song sorry stop top wrong quality want wash wasn't watch what
Task 2 Now listen and say these sentences:
Have you got a lot of shopping?
John's gone to the shops.
How much did your holiday cost?
4 She said the coffee wasn't very good, but I thought it was.
[ɔ:] is a monophthong, back, open, rounded, long.
A
rticulation:
Look at the diagram. The tongue is in the back part of the mouth. The
back of the tongue is raised to a half-open position. No contact is
made between the rims of the tongue and the upper teeth. The mouth is
less open and the lips are more rounded than for the vowel [ɒ].
Task 3 Listen and say the sound (A31).
[ɔ:] is usually spelled:
a (followed by ll, t) - all ball call fall tall wall water
al (followed by a consonant) - talk walk
au - autumn
aw - saw
augh - caught daughter taught
ough - bought thought
ar - quarter warm
or - born corner forty horse short sort
oor - door floor
ore - before more
our - four
Task 4 Now listen and say these phrases:
quarter past four 4 walking on water
born in autumn 5 the fourth door on the fourth floor
have some more
Task 5 Compare pronunciation of the words:
cod-corn pot - port cock - cork fox - forks Bob - born shot - short
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ship - sheep kid - keep book - boot cook - cool bun - barn luck - clerk |
Tongue twisters
[ɒ]
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?
Lots and lots of clocks and watches have gone wrong.
Rod often got into a hot water.
Molly`s got a spot on her frock.
Tom and his dog went to the pond.
[ɔ:]
Austin is an awful author in Australia.
Orba ordered orange orchids for the orchestra.
Of all the saws I ever saw a saw,
I never saw a saw as that saw saws.
The hall is on the fourth floor.
George was born in August.
LESSON 3 Sounds [e], [æ], [ə:]
[e] is a monophthong, front, mid, unrounded, short.
A
rticulation:
Look at the diagram. The tongue is in the front part of a mouth. The
front of the tongue is raised to the hard palate, but not as high as
for [ɪ].
The side rims of the tongue make a light contact with the upper
teeth. The tongue may be tenser than in the case of[ɪ].The
lips are loosely spread.
Task 1 Listen and say the sound (A37).
[e]is usually spelled:
e (in a closed syllable) - check leg letter red sentence
ea - bread head read (past tense)
ie - friend
a - any many
ai - again said
Task 2 Listen and say these sentences:
Tell me again.
Send me a cheque.
Correct these sentences.
Twenty to twelve.
Help your friend.
[æ] is a monophthong, front, open, unrounded.
A
rticulation:
Look at the diagram. The mouth is more open than for [e]. The tongue
is in the front part of the mouth. The front of the tongue is rather
low in the mouth. The side rims of the tongue make a very slight
contact with the back upper teeth.
Task 3 Listen and say the sound (A38).
[æ] is usually spelled:
a (in a closed syllable) - back camera factory hat jam manager map plan traffic
Task 4 Listen and say these sentences:
Thanks for the cash.
I ran to the bank.
Where's my black jacket?
That man works in a jam factory.
Let me carry your bags.
Task 5 Compare pronunciation and transcription of the words:
men - man pen - pan bed - bad mess - mass set - sad get - gap |
let - lack Kent - can trick - track neck - back then - that fit - fat |
meat - mat meet - match heck - hat met - math rip - rap keep - cap |
Task 6 Transcribe the words:
Form, bag, war, thin, look, seek, order, pencil, cute, parrot, not, hell, north, forces, wool, sea-port, lip, leap, sat, zoo.
[ə:] is a monophthong, central, mid, unrounded, long.
A
rticulation:
Look
at the diagram. The
tongue is almost flat. The central part of the tongue is slightly
higher than the front and the back of the tongue, which are raised
between the half-close and half-open position. No firm contact is
made between the rims of the tongue and the upper teeth, the lips are
neutrally spread, they do not cover the teeth. The passage between
the teeth is rather narrow. It is long.
Task 7 Listen and say the sound (A43).
Note: [ə:] is a sound English speakers often make when they aren't sure what to say, and we often write it 'er'. Listen.
A: What date is it today? B: Er, I think it's the tenth.
[ə:] is spelled:
ir - bird first birthday circle thirty
or - word work world worse worst
ur - turn Thursday
our - journey
ear - ear earth heard learn
er - service Germany prefer dessert weren't verb university
Task 8 Now listen and say these sentences:
My birthday's on Thursday the thirty-first and hers is a week later.
When would you prefer, Tuesday or Thursday?
That was the worst journey in the world!
Have you ever heard this word?
A: The cakes weren't very good. B: I thought they were.
She went to university to learn German.
Task 9 Read and compare and transcribe the words:
four - fur torn - turn Paul - pearl warm - worm walk - work |
ten - turn Ben - burn bed - bird head - heard west - worst |
shut - shirt hut - hurt bun - burn bug - berg gull - girl |
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