The abc of Happiness

Aspire to reach your potent

Believe in yourself

Create a good life

Dream about what you might become

Exercise frequently

First think than speak

Glorify the creative spirit

Humour yourself and others

Imagine great things

Joyfully live each day

Kindly help others

Love one another

Meditate daily

Nurture the environment

Organization is the key to harmony

Praise performance well done

Quibbling is not for you

Regulate your behaviour

Smile often

Think rationally

Understand yourself

Value life

Work for the common good

X-ray and carefully examine problems

Yearn to improve

Zestfully pursue happiness.

PART II

A. Read the poem, find the reading rules of words and explain them.

B. Find the words having pronunciation not according to the reading rules.

THE CHAOS

Dearest creature in creation,

Study English pronunciation.

I will teach you in my verse

Sounds like corpse, corps, horse,

and worse.

I will keep you, Suzy, busy,

Make your head with heat grow dizzy.

Tear in eye, your dress will tear.

So shall I! Oh hear my prayer.

Just compare heart, beard,

and heard,

Dies and diet, lord and word,

Sword and sward, retain and Britain.

(Mind the latter, how it's written)

Now I surely will not plague you

With such words as plaque and ague.

But be careful how you speak:

Say break and steak, but bleak

and streak:

Cloven, oven, how and low,

Script, receipt, show, poem, and toe.

Hear me say, devoid of trickery,

Daughter, laughter, and Terpsichore,

Typhoid, measles, topsails, aisles,

Exiles, similes, and reviles;

Scholar, vicar, and cigar,

Solar, mica, war and far;

One, anemone, Balmoral,

Kitchen, lichen, laundry, laurel

Gertrude, German, wind and mind,

Scene, Melpomene, mankind.

Billet does not rhyme with ballet, Bouquet, wallet, mallet, chalet.

Blood and flood are not like food.

Nor is mould like should and would.

Viscous, viscount, load and broad,

Toward, to forward, to reward.

And your pronunciation's OK

When you correctly say croquet.

Rounded, wounded, grieve and sieve,

Friend and fiend, alive and live.

Ivy, privy, famous clamour,

And enamour, rhyme with hammer

River, rival, tomb, bomb, comb,

Doll and roll and some and home.

Stranger does not rhyme with anger,

Neither does devour with clangour.

Souls but foul, haunt but aunt,

Font, front, wont, want, grand,

and grant,

Shoes, goes, does. Now first say finger,

And then singer, ginger, linger,

Real, zeal, mauve, gauze, gouge

and gauge,

Marriage, foliage, mirage, and age.

Query does not rhyme with very,

Nor does fury sound like bury.

Dost, lost, post and doth, cloth, loath.

Job, knob, bosom, transom, oath.

Though the difference seems little,

We say actual but victual.

Refer does not rhyme with deafer.

Feoffer does, and zephyr, heifer.

Mint, pint, senate and sedate:

Dull, bull, and George ate late.

Scenic, Arabic, Pacific,

Science, conscience, scientific.

Liberty, library, heave and heaven,

Rachel, ache, moustache, eleven.

We say hallowed, but allowed,

People, leopard, towed, but vowed.

Mark the difference, moreover,

Between mover, cover clover;

Leeches, breeches, wise, precise,

Chalice, but police and lice;

Camel, constable, unstable,

Principle, disciple, label.

Petal, panel, and canal,

Wait, surprise, plait, promise, pal.

Worm and storm, chaise, chaos, chair,

Senator, spectator, mayor

Tour, but our succour, four.

Gas, alas, and Arkansas.

Sea, idea, Korea, area,

Psalm, Maria, but malaria.

Youth, south, southern, cleanse

and clean.

Doctrine, turpentine, marine.

Compare alien with Italian.

Dandelion and battalion.

Sally with ally, yea, ye, Eye, I, ay, aye, whey, and key.

Say aver, but ever, fever,

Neither, leisure, skein, deceiver Heron, granary, canary.

Crevice and device and aerie.

Face, but preface, not efface.

Phlegm, phlegmatic, ass. glass, bass.

Large, but target, gin, give, verging.

Ought, out. joust and scour, scourging.

Ear, but earn and wear and tear

Do not rhyme with here but ere.

Seven is right, but so is even,

Hyphen, roughen, nephew Stephen,

Monkey, donkey, Turk and jerk,

Ask, grasp, wasp, and cork and work.

Pronunciation - think of Psyche!

is a paling stout and spikey?

Won't it make you lose your wits,

Writing greats and saying grits?

lt's a dark abyss or tunnel:

Strewn with stone, stowed,

solace, gunwale,

slington and Isle of Wight,

Housewife, verdict and indict.

Finally, which rhymes with enough –

Though, through, plough, or dough,

or cough?

Hiccough has the sound of cup.

My advice is to give up!!!

Dr. Gerald Nolst Trenite (1870-1946).

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II	[x] flat	[ כ ] not	[e] pen	[ i ] sit myth		[Λ] cup
III	[ a:] large	[ כ:] fork	[ә:] term firm Byrd fur
IV	[εƏ] Mary	[ כ:] more	[ iә] here	[aiә] fire tyre		[ juә] during

[I:]

²Activity 1. Contrasting Sound Practice BUT !

Listen and repeat the words paying attention to the sounds.

A. [ei] [e]

• me-he-we

• bee-fee-see-tree-three-

knee-kneel-feel-feed-feet-

keel-keep-cheese-jeep-

cheek-heed-need-wheel

• sea-pea-tea

deal-heal-meal-steal-beam-bean-leap-cheap-leave

heat-beat-feat-lead-least-meat-east-Easter

• deceive-receive-receit-ceiling-ceize

• chief-kerchief-handkerchief-field-shield-niece-piece-thief-belief-believe

• dead-head-bread-instead-read-ready-steady

• health-wealth-death-weather-deaf

B. beam – sunbeam lea – jubilee eve – evening

reel – newsreel wheel – flywheel ease – easiness

tree – fruit-tree gee – apogee sea – seaport

free – carefree keep – upkeep eaves – eavesdrop

need – needless seal – sealskin peace – peaceful

peach – peachy pea – peanut read – reader

cream – ice-cream teen – nineteen teach – teacher

C. [ i ] - [ i: ]

jinn – jeans still – seal dish – deal print – preen

chick – cheek sit – seat pick – peak prince – preach

bitch – beach pill – peal hit – heap mill – meal

live – leave bin – bean lid – lead milk – meek

fit – feat ship – sheep kick – keep timid - team

D.

• be – bee – bead – beam – beaver – beef – beat – beetroot

• fee – fever – feel – feed – feet – field – fielder – fiend – fiendish

• me – meal – meat – meet – media – meek – meeting

• neap – neat – need – needn’t – needless – needle – niece

• kneel – knee – knee-deep

• sea – see – seal – seed – seat – seam – seen – season

• she – sheet – sheep – sheen – sheath – shield – sheeting

• tea - tease – teeth – team – teamster – teaspoon – teenager – teacher

• we – wee – weed – wheel – wheat – wheeze – wield – wiener

• wreak – wreath – wreathe

Activity 2. Read the sentences. Mind the reading rules.

I’m not free this evening.

Pleased to meet you.

Please, be seated.

Pete eats chiefly meat.

Steve is eager to please the teacher.

The teacher has every reason to be displeased.

My niece feels seedy.

He speaks Chinese and Japanese with equal ease.

At least you see what a weak creature I am.

In the green fields wheat is grown.

I think it’s easier to read than to speak.

Activity 3. Read the proverbs according to the reading rules.

Activity 4. Complete the words with a long sound [ i: ].

1. The colour is g . . n (green). 9. A wild animal is a b . . st.

2. The wife of a king is a qu . . n. 10. You have the same opinion –

3. You do it at night. – Sl . . p. you agr . . .

4. A farm animal is a sh . . p 11. The house is not expensive ,

5. You find them in the park. – Tr . . s. it’s ch . . p.

6. It may be hockey or football t . . m. 12. After illness he was w . . k.

7. The room is not dirty, it’s cl . . n. 13. Sunday is the best day of the w . . k.

8. The head of the faculty is a d . . n. 14. Do you prefer coffee to t . . .

Activity 5. Read the words in bold type, explain the reading rules of the

words having [ i:]. Read the rhyme.