B
Heart – heart attack – heart break – heartland – heartfelt – kindhearted – heartless – heartsick – hearty heart-to-heart
UT!
C.
hard – hardly – harden – hardboard – hard line – hardworking
mark – market – marketing – marketplace
parliament – parliamentary – parliamentarian
participant – participate – participation
part – partner – partnership
pass – passing – passport – passbook
mast – master – masterpiece
half – halfway – half-and-half
palm – palmist – palmtop – palm tree
nasty – nastily – nastiness
lance – lancing – lancet
²Activity 2. Contrasting Sound Practice
Listen and repeat the words paying attention to the sounds.
A. [a:] – [Λ] bargain – bugger barge – bulge calm – culture
card – cut carpet – cupboard daft – duff
dark – duster fast – fuss gasp – gust
harbour – hubbub lark – luck mark – muck
B. [a:] – [æ] – [e] – [Λ]
bath – bat – bet – but lark – lank – leg – luck
pass – passion – pest – puzzle dark – dagger – desk – duck
mark – mag – member – muck calm – camp – scent – come
chart – chat – chest – chunk half – hack – help – huff
March – match – metric – much barn – band – bend – bun
²Activity 3. Listen to the speaker and imitate the tongue twister.
Learn it by heart.
A large dark car is parked in our bar.
Activity 4. Read the sentences. Mind the reading rules.
Who likes tarts?
Are these pass marks?
Arthur is rather marvelous.
I asked him to start the car.
Cars can’t be parked here after dark.
I’d like to dance after classes.
Take the last bus at half past six.
I asked him to come to our party.
She was rather pretty but her face
was like a glass mask.
Half of the farms are on the
northern part.
He enlarged his knowledge in France.
I can’t answer it so far.
I can’t say it is a hardship.
The grass seemed to be varnished
with ice.
Arnold laughed at the artist.
I am the king of the castle.
The harbours are hardly visible.
Activity 5. Read the proverbs according to the reading rules.
Can you find Russian versions for them?
Activity 6. Read the poem. Mind the sound [a:].
The Telephone
Friends a hundred miles apart
Sit and chatter heart to heart,
Boys and girls from school afar
Speak to mother, ask papa.
Alfred h. Miles
[ כ]
²Activity 1. Listen and repeat the words paying attention to the sound [כ].
A.
oh-ox-box-cod-cot-god-goth-hob-hop-log-lock-nod-knot-mock-sock-chock-long-gong-prong-strong-wrong
quad-qualify-quality-quandary-quarrel-quarry-quarter-quash-squad-squat
was-want-watch-wash-wander-what
B. cot – apricot pond – fishpond block – blockbuster
log – catalogue box – boxing chock – chock-a-block
what – somewhat gob – goblin doss – doss house
frog – leap-frog ox – Oxford fog - foggy
mock – mockery cob – cobweb gloss – glossary
hock – hockey lot – lottery possible – impossible
²Activity 2. Contrasting Sound Practice
Listen and repeat the words paying attention to the sounds.
[כ] – [כ:] pot – port shot – short flop – floor dost – dorsal
stock – stork con – corn glob – glory fog – fork
swat – swart knot – naught gosh – gorse god – gorge
moss – more sod – sword bonk – bore hot – horde
pock – pork cock – cork bond – border lorry – lore
waft – wharf dolt – dorm fond – ford moral – mortal
Activity 3. Practice the reading of the words.
qua
quad – quadrangle – quadrant – quadratic – quadrille
qualify – qualified – qualifier – qualification
quality – quality control – quality of life – quality time
quantity – quantify – quantitative
quarrel – quarreled – quarreling – quarrelsome
wa / wha waft wanderings warren watch
wander want wash what
wan wanted washable whatever
wand warrant wasp whatnot
Activity 4. Read the sentences. Mind the reading rules.
Jog on.
What a swat!
Possibly not.
What a lot of nonsense!
Tom’s watch stopped.
Rod wants his coffee strong.
Dot wants an office-job.
I got lost in the forest.
What a lot of presents.
Rose is fond of dolls.
Do you want a job?
We watched their quarrel.
He was afraid of wasps.
They quarreled a quarter ago.
Why was he so wan?
I can’t understand your wandering.
He had a great wish of wanderlust.
I admire her swan song.
²Activity 5. Listen to the speaker and imitate the tongue twisters.
Learn one of them by heart.
Sam’s shop stocks short spotted socks.
Cob is Dob’s dog, Tob is Hob’s dog.
[ כ: ]
²Activity 1. Listen and repeat the words paying attention to the sound [כ].
A.
or-nor-sort-port-sport-pork-short-fork
bore-core-more-sore-store-adore-tore-fore
all-ball-call-fall-hall-tall-stall
fault -pause-autumn-laundry-because-August-author
saw-straw-draw-shawl-law-thaw
war-water-warm-watch-walk-swan
ought-bought-brought -thought
taught-naughty-caught-daughter
B. bore – boredom daunt – daunting form – formal
border – borderland dorm – dormouse horn – horn bill
born – new born draw – drawing horse – horseman
cord – cordless fault – faultless law – law court
cork – corkage force – forceful launch – launch
corner – cornerstone fore – forecast cautious – cautious
dawn – dawn raid naught - naughty cause – causation
C.
north – northeast – north-eastern – northerly – northern – northerner
paw – pawn – pawnbroker – pawpaw
port – portable – portal – porter – portion
forward – forwardness – forward-looking – forwarding address
award – reward – rewarding
sauce – saucer – saucepan
saw – sawdust – sawed – sawn – sawyer
scorch – scorched – scorcher – scorching
score – scoreboard – scorecard – scoreless – scorer – score out
score through – score off
short – shortage – shortcoming – shortcut – shortly – shorts
all – all along – all-around – all-comers – all-day
sport – sporting – sportsman – sportsmanship – sporty
sword – sword dance – swordfish – sword of Damocles – swordsman
talk – talkative – talkback – talker – talkie – talking point – talk show
walk – walkabout – walker – walkie-talkie – walking
wall – wallflower – wallpaper – wall-to-wall – wall unit
watch – watchdog – watchmaker – watchful
Activity 2. Contrasting Sound Practice
Listen and repeat the words paying attention to the sounds.
[ כ:] – [ כ ] – [ a:] – [ æ ]
forks – fox – far – fax caw – cock – car – carry
sport – spot – spar – spat port – pot – part – pat
court – cot –cart – cat horde – hot – hard – had
short – shot – sharp – shat lord – lot – lark – lack
stalk – stock – stark – stag pork – potty – park – pack
Activity 3. Read the sentences. Mind the reading rules.
It is all your fault.
Nora adores small talks.
I thought he is forty four.
Are you fond of sport?
To talk to Mort is like talking
to the wall.
You ought to have brought your daughter.
Draw water from the faucet.
Draw in your claws.
I saw her drawing this picture.
Morton’s court report was short.
Activity 4. Read the proverbs according to the reading rules.
Activity 5. Read the words in bold type, explain the reading rules.
Read the rhymes according to the reading rules.
Tommy Trot. Balls.
Tommy Trot, a man of law, And there are many other balls
Sold his bed and lay upon straw. We find at pleasure’s source -
Sold the straw and slept in the hall The croquet ball, the hockey ball.
To buy his daughter a nice ball. The skittle ball, lacrosse,
And smaller ball, the marble balls,
And bearing balls, of course.