A Fine, Flashy Fox Fur

Felicity: That's a fine, flashy fox fur you've flung on the sofa, Daphne.

Daphne: Yes, I found it on Friday afternoon in Iffley Forest.

Felicity: But, Daphne! That's Fiona's fox fur — her fiftieth birthday gift from Freddie. You are awful! Fiona will be furious.

Daphne: Well, if Fiona left her fur in the forest...

Felicity: Fiona leaves her fabulous fox fur in the forest? Stuff and nonsense! You're a thief! Take it off!

Daphne: Felicity! What a fuss over a faded bit of fluff! Anyway, fancy Fiona in a fur! She's far too fat!

226. Read the rhymes and learn them.

     1. Taffy was a Welshman, Taffy was a thief, Taffy came to my house And stole a piece of beef. 2. Cock-adoodle-doo! My dame will dance with you. While master fiddles his fiddling-stick For dame and doodle-doo! 3. Once upon a time, in a little wee house, Lived a funny old man and his wife, And he said something funny to make her laugh Every day of his life. One day he said a very funny thing, That she shook and screamed with laughter, But the poor old soul, she couldn't leave off For at least three whole days after.

     4. Why does a fire eat big sticks of wood? I shouldn't like to have that for my food But the flames all lick their lips — It must taste good. 5. A willful young fisher named Gabriel Fisher, Once fished for some fish in a fissure, Till a fish with a grin Pulled the fisherman in Now they are fishing the fissure for Fisher. 6. A flea and a fly in a flue Were caught so what could they do? Said the fly, "Let us flee!" "Let us fly", said the flea, And they flew through a flaw in the flue.

227. Transcribe the proverbs and learn them.

1. Faint heart never won fair lady.

2. Fine feathers make fine birds.

3. Feast today and fast tomorrow.

4. Fools seldom differ.

5. Far from eye, far from heart.

6. Fair without, foul (false) within.

7. An iron hand in a velvet glove.

8. The fat is in the fire.

Sound [w]

228. Track 70. Tick the words a) or b) that you hear in the sentences.

     1 a) vine	□	b) wine	□
     2 a) V	□	b) we	□
     3 a) veal	□	b) wheel	□
     4 a) verse	□	b) worse	□
     5 a) veils	□	b) whales	□
     6 a) vet	□	b) wet	□

229. First practise the target sound /w/ in words from the dialogue below. Read the words aloud.

well what wet walk warm with white wine went walked woods wild sweet William Wednesday wasn't wearing walnut railway quiet quickly twenty squirrels

wonderful Winona afterwards

230. Track 71. Listen to the dialogue, paying attention to the target sound. Then read the dialogue and guess which words are strongly stressed in each sentence. The number in brackets tells you how many words will be strongly stressed in that line. The first line has been done as an example..