Drill. Mark the stresses and tunes and read the following sentences

Intonation of participial construction.

Если причастный оборот стоит в начале предложения, то он произносится с восходящим тоном.

Если причастный оборот стоит в конце предложения, он может быть выделен в отдельную синтагму либо нет в зависимости от отношения говорящего и произносится с нисходящим тоном.

 

1. Having picked up Mr. Dunn's papers from the library floor, she held them out to him.

2. Arriving back they found Ann in the sitting room reading magazines.

3. A new road will soon be built joining the airport with the railway station.

4. Taking a book from the shelf, he sits down to read it.

5. Having been examined by the customs, the goods were let through.

6. Every now and then David raised his head from the book looking at the clock on the wall.

7. I hope you will write soon explaining your intentions.

8. The text being easy they didn't use the dictionary.

 

 

Unit 33. TELEVISION

1. Listen and repeat:

television, garage, measuring tape, Peugeot, measure, casual clothes, Asia, an unusual collision.

 

2. Reading. Television programmes: Channel O

7.00 – Children’s film: Treasure Island

7.15 – News comment: An Unusual Collision

7.30 – Fashion : Casual Clothes

7.45 – Travel Film : Across Asia in a Peugeot

8.15 – Do-it-yourself: How to measure a new garage

8.30 – Variety Show: It’s a Pleasure

 

 

Unit 34. CHERRY

[ ] – переднеязычные альвеолярно-палатальные смычные аффрикаты, первый компонент - взрывной звук [t] или [d], второй – фрикативный. При их произнесении кончик языка касается альвеол, одновременно средняя часть языка поднимается к твердому небу. Постепенно кончик языка отходит от альвеол. Полная преграда переходит в неполную, [ ] – глухой согласный, [ ] –звонкий.

 

1. Listen and repeat:

ships-chips, sheep-cheap, sherry-cherry, shop-chop, cash-catch, wash-watch.

2. Listen and repeat:

children, cheque, Cheshire, cheaper, choose, butcher’s shop, chump chops, shoulder, chops, a delicious chicken, children’s lunch, Mrs. Church, much, which.

 

3. Dialogue. At the butcher’s shop

Mr. Cheshire: Good morning, Mrs. Church.

Mrs. Church: Good morning, Mr. Cheshire. I’d like some chops for the children’s lunch.

Mr. Cheshire: Chump chops or shoulder chops, Mrs. Church?

Mrs. Church: I’ll have four shoulder chops, and I want a small chicken.

Mr. Cheshire: Would you like to choose a chicken, Mrs. Church?

Mrs. Church: Which one is cheaper?

Mr. Cheshire: This one’s the cheapest. It’s a delicious chicken.

Mrs. Church: How much is all that? I haven’t got cash. Can I pay by cheque?

Mr. Cheshire: Of course, Mrs. Church.

 

4. Tongue twisters. Can you say these three times … fast?

Which wristwatch is a Swiss wristwatch?

Which witch wished which wicked wish?

 

 

Unit 35. JAM

1. Listen and repeat:

cheep-jeep, choke-joke, chin-gin, cherry-jerry, larch-large, H-age.

 

2. Listen and repeat:

gin, jeep, January, just, joke, jail, dangerous, manager, agency, injured, passenger, damaged, village, bridge, edge, large, George Churchill, ginger-haired chap.

 

3. Dialogue. GEORGE CHURCHILL

Jerry: Just outside this village there’s a very dangerous bridge.

John: Yes. Charles told me two jeeps crashed on it in January. What happened?

Jerry: Well George Churchill was the driver of the larger jeep, and he was driving very dangerously. He’d been drinking gin.

John: George Churchill? Do you know George Churchill?

Jerry: Yes. That ginger-haired chap. He’s the manager of the travel agency in Chester.

John: Oh, yes. I remember George. He’s always telling jokes. Well, was anybody injured?

Jerry: Oh, yes. The other jeep went over the edge of the bridge, and two children and another passenger were badly injured.

John: Were both the jeeps damaged?

Jerry: Oh, yes.

John: And what happened to George?

Jerry: George? He’s telling jokes in jail now, I suppose!

 

4. Joining sounds.(when two sounds … or … come together, you must say both sounds):

Orange juice, village jail, large gentleman, huge jam-jar, rich child, watch chain, which chair, how much cheese, which job, college chess, large cherries, teach German.

 

5. Tongue twisters. Can you say these three times … fast?

Tragedy strategy.

Can you imagine an imaginary menagerie manager imagining an imaginary menagerie?

 

 

Unit 36. FAN

[f, v] – губно-зубные щелевые фрикативные согласные. Артикуляционно совпадают с русскими согласными [ф, в]. Глухой [f] сильнее русского [ф], звонкий [v] слабее русского [в].

Произносите глухой звук [f] энергично, контролируя сильную струю воздуха и хорошо слышимый шум.

 

1. Listen and repeat:

pin-fin, peel-feel, pail-fail, pine-fine, snip-sniff, harp-half.

 

2. Listen and repeat:

hat-fat, heat-feet, hill-fill, hall-fall, hole-foal.

 

 

3. Listen and repeat:

fill in, finished, feels fine, five, for, form, February, full, front, friendly, office, sofa, profile, telephone, beautiful, comfortable, after, Mr. Puffin, difficult, if, wife, laugh, photograph, photographer, myself, soft, Philip, Phillipa.

 

4. Dialogue. At the photographer’s

Phillip: I want a photograph of myself and my wife.

Photographer: Please fill in this form, sir. Would you prefer a full front photograph or a profile?

Phillip: A full front, don’t you think, Phillipa?

Phillipa: Yes. A full front photograph.

Photographer: Please sit on this sofa. Is it comfortable, Mrs. Puffin?

Phillipa: Yes. It feels fine.

Photographer: Mr. Puffin, please give a friendly laugh.

Phillip: That’s difficult. If you say something funny I can laugh. And, Mrs. Puffin, Please look soft and beautiful.

Phillipa: Is it finished?

Photographer: Yes.

Phillip: Will the photograph be ready for the first of February?

Photographer: Yes. Please phone my office after five days, Mr. Puffin.

 

5. Tongue twisters. Can you say these three times … fast?

Freshly fried fresh flesh.

Freaky five fingered fouls’ fingers forever flicking freely.

 

Funny Frank fell fifty feet.