I have two legs with which I walk,

I have a tongue, with which I talk,

And with it, too, I eat my food

And tell if it’s bad or good.

²Activity 6. Listen to the speaker and imitate the tongue twister.

Learn it by heart.

ATudor 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?

[Λ ]

REMEMBER! BUT! [כ]

BUT! [כ] BUT! [u:]

²Activity 1. Listen and repeat the words paying attention to the sound [Λ].

A.

• u

  BUT:

  [כ] donkey

  [u:] move, prove,

  disapprove

  [כ] broth, froth,

  cloth

  [u:] pull, full, bull

  p-cub-cup-cud-cut-bug-bud-hut-mud-nut-puff

• come-overcome-some-son-none-done

• won-monk-money-monkey-monkery-monkhood

• above-dove-glove-love

• other-brother-another-mother-nothing

• dull-lull-hull-mull-sully-bulk-hulk-sulk-cult-pulse

• double-trouble-couple-enough

• cousin-country-young-courage-touch

B. bun – bundle luck – luckily number – numberless

cup – cupboard duck - duckweed plug – plughole

funk – function fun – funny glum – glumly

one – wonder fuss – fussy bump – bumper

bulk – bulkhead cut – cutting edge crush – crush barrier

lump – lumpy gum – chewing gum gun – gunfight

Activity 2. Contrasting Sound Practice

Listen and repeat the words paying attention to the sounds.

A. [Λ] [a:] hush – harsh hut – hard touch – tart

muck – mark fun – farm bun – barn

us – grass plum – palm love – laugh

fuss – farce pus – pass much – March

duck – dark country – can’t sludge – large

B. [Λ] – [æ] – [e] – [a:]

cut – cat – kettle – cart lust – lass – less – last

bud – bad – bed – bard hut – hat – het up – heart

musk – mass – mess – mask fuss – fat – fester – fast

tusk – tax – text – task luck – lack – leg – lark

dug – drag – deck – dark strung – strand – strength – star

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

Activity 4. Read the sentences. Mind the reading rules.

Something must be done.

Don’t touch this money till next

month.

Something must be done to save

the funds.

The mother won some of the

money, but not enough.

The dust is under the rug.

I’d love to come on Sunday if

it’s not sunny.

Activity 5. Read the words in bold type and explain their reading rules.

Read the poems.

Donkey and monkey.

Donkey and monkey went to the park.

Donkey and monkey want to buy a big tart.

- Where is your money? Where is your money?

- Donkey and monkey have no money.

Oh, funny donkey, oh, funny monkey,

Donkey and monkey have no money.

Donkey and monkey want to buy honey.

- Where is your money? Where is your money?

- Donkey and monkey have no money.

The Brook

Grumbling, stumbling, fumbling all the day.

Fluttering, stuttering, muttering away,

Rustling, hustling, bustling as it flows,

That it how the brook talks, bubbling as it goes.