Peter: Pass the pepper, will you, please, Percy, old chap?
Percy: Pepper? You're not proposing to put pepper on your porridge?
Peter: Shut up, Percy! Why do you always presume that I'm stupid?
Percy: Well, stop snapping and explain the purpose of the pepper pot.
Peter: It's perfectly simple. I want to compare our pepper pot with the pepper pot
I've bought as a present for Penelope Popplewell. Percy: A practical—but pretty expensive—present!
Peter: Well, she's a super person. I thought perhaps, if you happened to be passing the Post Office . . . Could you possibly pop the parcel in the post?
Percy: Am I expected to pay the postage on this pepper pot for Penelope Popplewell?
Peter: Percy, you're impossible! I may be poor but I have my pride! Here's £1 for the postage.
Hometask: record your voice while practising ex-s. Learn “Peter Piper” by heart.
Read and practise.
A critical critic cracked his neck at a critical cricket match.
I can make my voice go really high. I can make my voice go really low.
Can you can a can as a canner can can a can?
There was a fisherman named Fisher
who fished for some fish in a fissure.
Till a fish with a grin,
pulled the fisherman in.
Now they're fishing the fissure for Fisher.
LESSON 2
Follow Arakin book p. 19 and practice the sounds. Ph. ex-s.
Make sure you understand the essence of the terms: assimilation, lateral plosion, intonation, sentence-stress, nuclear tone, rhythm, low-fall, low rise.
Watch “BBC pr. tips” [l], [f], [v], [j], [ə].
Hometask. Transcribe the words:
| still | penny | tips | thin |
| tipe | little | spill | sell |
| pity | fill | them | kiss |
| kill | belt | kettle | six |
| city | yell | spend | less |
| neck | miss | beds | yet |
Shwa-sound. Watch BBC pr.tip for this.
(unit 12 shwa) Listen and practise.
| (a) about among ago | combine command confuse | potato police propose | succession tradition occasion | actor doctor motor |
| water danger driver | theatre centre metre | extra sofa china | human woman German | postman Englishman gentleman |
| husband company servant | England Scotland Iceland | curtain certain Britain | dozen written often | student entertainment intelligent |
| Lesson Bacon cotton | adventure future pleasure | generous ridiculous nervous | photographer stenographer caligrapher | apology philology biology |
| thorough borough | Peterborough Edinburgh | St. Joan St. Ives | Venus asparagus | cousin basin |
| (b) The vanishing syllable. comf(or)table caref(u)lly veg(e)table practic(a)lly adm(i)rable strawb(e)rry | list(e)ning lit(e)rature med(i)c(i)ne | rest(au)rant cam(e)ra secret(a)ry | ord(i)nary extr(a)ord(i)n(a)ry diff(e)rent |
(c) A Doctor of Philosophy
A command performance
A picture of innocence
A baker's dozen
To bet your bottom dollar
To take your pleasures seriously
The Department of the Environment
The Iron Curtain
The Listening Library
The Garden of Eden
To harbour a grudge
Nature is the best healer
Nothing succeeds like success
Necessity is the mother of invention
A handsome husband—or ten thousand a year?
An Englishman's home is his castle
Here today, gone tomorrow
Never put off till tomorrow what you can do today
Never do today what you can get someone else to do tomorrow!