II. I. Practise the following words and sentences observing assimilationi in the consonant clusters with [r]: a) complete devoicing of [r]:

tram	traffic	cream	proud	progress
tree	transport	cross	Prague	present
train	trousers	crowd	pretty	proper
true	electricity	crooked	promise	practice
b) partial	devoicing of	M:
street	country	prepare	shrug	hypocrite
strong	waitress	pronounce	shrewd	sacred
strike	entrance	prefer	fruit	secret
spread	mattrass	profession	frown	secretary
spring	portrait	leprous	freedom	democracy
scream	fortress	opera	frosty	ice-cream

100. Post-alveolar variant of [d]:

dry draft laundry dreadful

drag drug bed-room dramatize

dress drought wardrobe dressing-gown

dream drawer sideroad drawing-room

4. Alveolar flapped variant of [r]:

three thread bathroom the fourth rule

throw thrice teeth-ridge with rain

through threaten forth-right with reading

Practise consonant clusters with [r] at word junctions, trying to avoid strong assimilation.

1. Does she do any sports? — She's good at riding a bicycle.

2. What shall I do now? — Start reading the text.

3. What was the weather like last Sunday? — It rained all day long.

5. Where shall 1 stop? — Sto{M;ight here.

6. Where's the nearest news-stand? — Just round the cofrier.

7. What is there on the table? — A vase with red roses.;

8. Where is Helen? — She's in the back-room.

9. Is she leaving alone? — She's leaving with Robert.

10. Are the sentences correct? — They are both wrong.

LEARN THE RHYMES AND LIMERICKS

There was an old man of Peru Who dreamed he was eating his shoe He woke up at night In a terrible fright,

And found it was perfectly true.

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Little cat, little cat, As you sat on the mat Did you dream of a mouse Or a gray rat? Oh, no, not so! For I always dream Of a dish full offish And a bowl full of cream.

2. Rhythm practice

TWO-STRESS PATTERN

Structures with two stressed syllables and intervening unstressed ones

These structures are typical of utterances containing two notional words with intervening function words. The function words which occur between the two stressed ones can be attached to either of them depending on their grammatical and semantical relations.

(□) (□) (П) □ □ (□) (□) □ (□) (□)I. Practise the given rhythmic Falling Tunes

1. I'll'do it my'self.

2. 'War and 'Peace.

3. 'Do it in 'writing.

4. 'Alice in 'Wonderland.

5. He 'asked for ad'vice.

6. He's at the 'top of the 'class.