ICCEP

Ex. 8. Match the words in each group that contain the same vowel sound One is done for

you:

Ex. 9. Focus on [ ],[ ], [u:]:

1. All the words in the box include the letter “u”. How is it pronounced? Write the words in the table.

Questions to be answered

1.What is the position of the tongue in the mouth cavity while pronouncing the phonemes [ ] and [u:]?

2.What is the difference in the position of the lips in articulating the English phonemes [ ] and [u:] and the Russian phoneme [у] do you observe?

3.What do the English phonemes [n] and [ ] differ in?

4.What position do the organs of speech take in articulating the diphthong [a ]?

5.How is the particle “to” before the infinitive pronounced?

Tasks

1.Compare the pronunciation of the English consonant phoneme [h] with the Russian consonant [х].

2.Translate the following sentence into English and define its communicative type.

Будут ли готовы фотографии к 1 февраля?

3.Transcribe and intone the following sentence:

Would you prefer a full front photograph or a profile?

4.Explain phonetic rules that are made use of in the following sentence:

Where is the round roll Robert Rowley rolled round?

5.Write and transcribe names of twenty professions.

Tests

Ex. 4

Ex. 5. Read the following sentences and notice the [h], [ ], [u:], and [ ] sounds in each:

[h]

1.'Whose 'house is on the hill ?

[ : ]

2.'Who 'helped him to 'handle the case?

[ : ]

[ ]

1.'Look at the cook. He 'put a 'good 'hook into the brook.

[ ]

2.The 'bookshelf is 'full of 'good books.

[ ]

[u:]

1.You must 'choose 'either boots | or shoes.

[ : : · : ]

2.'Who 'said the 'soup was 'too cool ?

[ : : : : ]

[ ]

1.'Out of sight | 'out of mind.

[ ]

2.'Don’t shout | when pro'noucing sounds.

[ n ]

Vowel [ ]

In pronouncing the nucleus of the diphthong the bulk of the tongue is in the front part of the mouth cavity. The middle of the tongue is raised to the position of the vowel [ ]. Thus the nucleus

of [ ] is front retracted, close (a broad variation of the high position ofthe tongue), unrounded, short and lax. In pronouncing the glide the tongue moves back and down in the direction of [ ], the articulation of which is fully accomplished. Sometimes when the diphthong [ ] occurs in an

open syllable and is followed by a pause, the glide sounds like the vowel [ ]. The opening between the jaws for both elements of the diphthong is rather narrow. The lips are neutral.

Russian learners are apt to replace the diphthong [ ] by the monophthongs [ ] or [i:], especially before the sonorant [r].

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4.[ ] [ ]

5.[ i: ] [ i: ]

6.[ ]

7.[ ]

8.[ ]

9.[ ]

10.[ ]

11.[ i: ] [ ]

12.[ : : ] [ : ]

1.Look at me (him, her, us, them, it).

2.Count up to five. – One, two, three, four, five.

3.Count from sixteen to twenty. – Sixteen, seventeen, eighteen, nineteen, twenty.

4.It’s black. – White!

5.Dick’s free on Friday. Nelly’s free on Monday.

6.He’s handsome.

7.She’s very clever.

8.Mind the step!

9.Watch the traffic lights.

10.Come at once.

11.Milk and cheese are horrible. – Well, milk is!

12.Excuse me, are you from Moscow? – Certainly.

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Grammar

The Numeral

Set of questions with professions in the first person singular

Exercises

Ex. 1. Transcribe the following words:

Sore, firm, myrtle, dear, mere, earn, phone, breath.

Ex. 2. Transcribe and write the tonogrammes of the following sentences. Pay attention to structural words:

l. This 'book is for her, | 'not for you. 2. Take it for him. 3. 'Look at this picture. Look at it. 4. Give it to them. 'Give it to 'Peter and Nina. 5. You are from Minsk, | aren’t you? – I’m from Kyiv.

Ex. 3. Form questions and give answers to them according to the patterns:

a)'Is 'Nick 'near John? 'Yes, he’s near him. He is 'quite close to him.

b)'Is 'Nick 'near 'John and Helen? 'No, he 'isn’t near them.

'No, he’s a 'long way from them.

Ex. 4. Ask one of the students to count from 1 to 10, from 13 to 19, from 8 to 12; count up to 7, 11, 20.

Ex. 5. Substitute the words in bold type for the personal pronouns in the objective case:

1. Give that book to Nelly. 2. Learn this rule, please. 3. Ask Peter and Nelly to come to us. 4. Tell John to come here. 5. Ask Helen to clear the table after dinner.

Ex. 6. Pay attention to weak and strong forms of prepositions

a) Look at these sentences. Listen and repeat:

I’m from London. I spoke to Tom.

I’m waiting for Frank. It’s made of plastic. It’s on at 8.30.

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b) Look at these questions. Listen and repeat:

What is it made of? Who did you speak to? What time’s it on at? Where are you from? Who are you waiting for?

c) What do you notice about the prepositions in the sentences and in the questions? Why is the pronunciation different?

b) Fill in the gaps in these sentences. (All the prepositions are weak here)

c) Listen to the teacher and check your answers.

Questions to be answered

1.What peculiarities in pronunciation of the English vowel phoneme [ :] should be born

in mind?

2.Is there a vowel sound like English [ :] in Russian?

3.What should be done to avoid replacing the English [:] by the Russian vowel [э] and [o]?

4.What phonetic rule is made use of in the words “train” and “brown”?

5.In what form are the prepositions at the end of the sentence pronounced?

Additional tasks

1.Describe the work of the organs of speech while pronouncing the diphthong [ ].

2.Write and pronounce 10 words with the diphthong [ ] trying to pronounce a weak unstressed Russian “a”[ ] after the nucleus [ ].

3.Say what groups the numerals are classified into.

4.Comment on the morphological characteristics of numerals.

5.Speak on syntactic functions of numerals.