I’m melting!

Must Mother make a mountain out of a molehill?

 

Everything’s going wrong.

Stop fidgeting, it’s annoying!

Anything damaging in sitting and smoking?

Some Englishmen are murdering King’s English.

Ex.4 Find a way from Start to Finish. You may pass a square only if the word in it has the sound [ŋ]. You can move horizontally or vertically only.

Start

 

sing	think	thick	strong	wrong	rung
sign	uncle	unless	drug	strange	comb
thanks	angry	signal	drank	English	finger
anxious	angel	single	monkey	money	young
language	tongue	skiing	skin	came	ink
lounge	danger	band	dream	swim	wing

Finish

Ex.5 Complete the conversation using the words from the box. Listen and check (A73).

 

Ex.6 Listen and circle the word you hear. (A74)

1. My friend likes Robin Banks / robbing banks.

2. Tom ran / rang yesterday.

3. She had a swing / swim in the garden.

4. The son warned / sun warmed me.

5. The people were singing / sinking fast.

 

 

Vowels: Diphthongs [eı], [aı], [әu]

 

Ex.7 Listen and repeat.

 

[eı]

 

bay plate eight grey play

 

[aı]

 

bike fly ice-cream wine kite

 

[әu]

 

boat coast bowl toast comb

 

Ex.8 Practise saying the tongue twisters.

 

At five on Fridays my wife likes to go for a drive.

I had the time of my life at the Whites.

Haste makes waste.

They waited and waited for a train, but it was late.

 

Oh, no, don’t go home alone.

No smoking!

 

 

Ex.9 These words all contain the vowel sound [ æ ]. Make another word with the same consonant sounds, but changing the vowel sound to [eı].

 

EXAMPLE pan ___pain___

1. at ___________

2. mad __________

3. man __________

4. plan __________

5. tap __________

6. ran __________

7. hat __________

 

Ex.10 Reverse the sounds in the following words as in the example.

EXAMPLE The word knife contains the three sounds [n], [aı], [f], if you reverse the sounds, you get the word fine.

knife ___fine______

 

1. mile _____________

2. file ______________

3. dice _____________

4. sign _____________

5. lights ____________

6. might ____________

 

Ex.11 Practise the dialogue.

(Joe Jones is sleeping, but Joan woke up a few minutes ago.)

Joan: Joe! Joe! JOE! Hello!

Joe: (groans) Oh! What is it, Joan?

Joan: Look out of the window.

Joe: No. My eyes are closed,

and I’m going to go to sleep again.

Joan: Don’t go to sleep, Joe. Look at the

snow!

Joe: Snow? But it’s only October.

I know there’s no snow.

Joan: Come over to the window, Joe.

Joe: You’re joking, Joan. There’s no snow.

Joan: OK. I’ll put my coat on and go out and make a snowball and throw it

at your nose, Joe Jones!

 

 

Pronouncing the verb ‘to be’ and auxiliary verbs

You don’t normally stress ‘to be’ in the middle of the sentence. Listen to this rhyme. (B 67a)

Roses are red,

Violets are blue,

Flowers are nice,

And so are you!

The word ‘is’ (and ‘s) is not usually spoken as a separate syllable, it is usually joined to the syllable before, for example Snow is white. But if the word before ends with letters like S, CE, GE and CH, it is a new syllable, for example Grass is green. Listen to these examples:

 

is and ‘s – not a separate syllable	is and ‘s – a separate syllable
Snow is white.	Grass is green.
Your hair is dirty.	Your face is dirty.
The road is closed.	The bridge is closed.
The clock is broken.	My watch is broken.

 

Ex.12 Tick þ the sentences where ‘is’ is a separate syllable. Then listen, check and repeat. (B71)

 

EXAMPLE

a. Lunch is ready! þ b. Dinner is ready!

 

1. a. The house is cold. b. The room is cold.

2. a. The taxi is here. b. The bus is here.

3. a. The beach is crowded. b. The park is crowded.

4. a. The steak is good. b. The fish is good.

5. a. The meaning is clear. b. The message is clear.

6. a. The smell is awful! b. The noise is awful!

7. Juice is good for you. b. Fruit is good for you.

 

Auxiliary verbs are not normally stressed in questions. The most common stress pattern for wh-questions is OooO. Listen to these examples. (B74)