My search

I listen to silence in search of my verses,

In search of a line that surprises, caresses,

In search of a rhyme that reveals something new,

Answers a questions or offers a clue.

And soon from nowhere the lines do appear,

And brain can hear! The brain can hear

The voice of silence and the universe

That prompts their secrets fit for a verse.

Jane Kislovskaya

Activity 10. Read the similes. Which one do you like most of all?

And why?

Activity 11. Read the letter to Sheila and expand Peter’s impressions about his holidays using the words with the letter “E”.

Activity 12. Read the words and cross out the word with a different sound.

[ i: ] sleet, peace, mean, , weave

[ iә ] fear, pear, mere, here, deer

[ә] wheat, bread, dead, instead, spread

[ә:] pearl, heard, heart, learn, search

[e] pleasant, death, pleasure, sweater, heat

[i:] meat, meet, dean, dear, receive

[ә] pet, bread, wet, sense, break, breath

Activity 13. Read the proverbs according to the reading rules.

Can you find Russian versions for them?

Reading test

Read the words according to the reading rules.

ready sleeve keen conceive speak

news death weather deal dear

feel felt weave cheek chew

deceive west heat serve tear

leave perceive sleeve clean head

near treat steal heard dean

pearl brew restlessness strew rein

clear sneer helm search perfect reason beer keen hero perk

cheer breath ahead earl weight wheat melt genius where deserve

ear feature teamster deceit drew

expensive fern selfish rear sherbet

teeth bell sheen treatment strewth

kept rein earl peer feather

открытый слог [ai]	закрытый слог [ i ]	i + r y + r [Ə:]	i+ r + гласн. y + r + гласн. [aiƏ]
wise	win	girl	wire
tile	wig	fir	admire
fine	mint	first	fire
twice	skill	bird	desire
crime	middle	birthday	require
sky	slim	circle	hire
scythe	myth	circus	tired

²Activity 1. Contrasting Sound Practice

Listen and repeat the words after the speaker paying attention to the sounds:

[ ai ] ice – dice – mice – nice – rice – price – size – thrice.

The price is nice.

bite – cite – kite – ride – pride – quite – side – wide.

The cite is wide.

bile – files – mile – pile – rile – style – tile – while.

He got piles of files.

fine – mine – pine – line – shrine – swine – wine.

The wine is fine.

die – lie – tie – cry – fry – try – wry.

Try to cry. We saw his wry smile.

[ ai ] my – cry – fly – shy – rely – supply – justify – deny – scarify – reply

[ … ] fly – pygmy – pyre – myself – myrtle – myth – sympathy – symbol

tyre – type – dye – dynamic

[ i ] ill – bill – hill – fill – kill – will – till – pill – nil

bin – hint – fin – sin – mint – din – tin –win – wing

bring – king – ring – sing – spring – swing – string – thing

big – fig – gig – sniggle – rig – pig – wig – twig

rink – drink – pink – mink – link – think – wink – print – prince

[ә:] bird – girl – first – dirt – firm – third – swirl – whirl –circle

dirk – flirt – myrrh – myrtle – shirt – sir – skirl – skirt

stirring – thirsty – thirteen – thirty – whirr – stir

Activity 2. Read the words according to the reading rules.

line – link shine – shin pine – pin ripe – rip

wife – wit smile – slim life – lift rise – risk

drive – drill sky – skid strike – strict price – prick

nine – nifty snipe – snip line – link spite – spit

ride – rid wiles – will hide – hit stripe – strip

fine – fin file – fill tribe – trick snipe – snip

glide – glib – liar side – sit – sire

hide – hit – hire tide – tit – tire

fine – fin – fire dime – dim – dire

wide – wit – wire rite – rid – retire

Activity 3. Distribute the words according to the sounds given in

columns.

	[ai]	[i]	[ә:]	[aiә]		[ai]	[i]	[ә:]	[aiә]
trice					mire				
bin					middle
split					miser
ride					fireman
gipsy					since
shirt					lifestyle
mishap					girdle
stir					flirt
virgin					price
drive					might
skin					witty
wispy					slide
dig					wine

²Activity 4. Listen to the poem and repeat it after the speaker.