- •We are very little creatures,
- •Where is…?
- •It gave him a crack,
- •1. Which is the largest ocean?
- •In a bad mood Spoiled plans
- •Vain It was a warming party.
- •I knew hardly anyone.
- •10. … Are for the lakes as … are for oceans.
- •( G. Macdonald)
- •Reading Test
- •My search
- •Reading test
- •The Sleeping Bag
- •In dismay the cat sighed Little kittens, Little kittens
- •Reading Test
- •Reading Test
- •Reading Test
- •The crooked man
- •In a little cute crooked house.
- •Reading test
- •Winter morning
- •I’m sorry it’s slushy when it’s going.
- •Test reading.
- •I must and will deny:
- •Philosophic Advice
- •Eve Merriam
- •I think it’s queer
- •Reading test
- •I picked some wisps of weeds to eat.
- •I was wary in their curling.
- •Reading Test. Read the words according to the reading rules.
- •Think of me.
- •It was a great sensation!
- •It was her emotional explanation and declaration.
- •It was a great sensation!
- •The abc of Happiness
- •A Cradle Song
- •If Peter Piper picked a pack of pickled pepper,
- •She sells sea shells on the sea shore
- •Where are you going, Solomon Grundy
- •Grizzly Bear
- •Heart – heart attack – heart break – heartland – heartfelt – kindhearted – heartless – heartsick – hearty heart-to-heart
- •The Telephone
- •Alfred h. Miles
- •Alfred h. Miles
- •The Listening Woods.
- •I have two legs with which I walk,
- •Donkey and monkey.
- •The Brook
- •A. Tennyson
- •It only doubles troubles and troubles others, too.
- •I know tow chaps and yet a third
- •Spring Rain Rain, rain, rain, April rain,
- •Bite-kitw-five-quite-side-knife-ice-nice-dice-rice-price-size-tie
- •The climate is mild on this island.
- •²Activity 1. Listen and repeat the words paying attention to the sound [au].
- •Autumn Leaves
- •Bear – beer – bar mare – mere – mar
- •The Song for the Children
- •I heard music unawares upstairs, downstairs,
- •Joe Wallace
- •Part III. Stress
- •In columns.
- •B. Answer the questions about Jane using the words in the box.
- •Part IV
- •Practise in reading and explain the reading rules.
- •A man of words
- •In Heaven’s high bower,
- •The trees The poplar is a French Tree a drives-his-roots-in-deep tree,
- •Request
- •Age and youth
- •Is there any reason known?
- •Perfect your perfect English!
- •17. Read the questions below and fill in with the correct answer.
- •Activity 18. Spelling Bee
- •I once met a beautiful lady
- •Save Our Planet
- •2. Read the song and find the rhyming words.
- •Career Prospects
- •How the water comes down at Lodore
- •Its tumult and wrath in,
- •It hastens along, conflicting strong;
- •Its caverns and rocks among,
- •R. Southey
- •English for foreigners
- •I take it you already know
- •I'd mastered it when I was five!
- •Краткий справочник. Правила чтения английских слов.
- •I [ə:] girl
Grizzly Bear
If you ever, ever, ever meet a grizzly bear,
You must never, never, never ask him
Where he is going or what he is doing.
For, if you ever, ever dare to stop a grizzly bear,
You will never meet another grizzly bear!
Mary Austin
²Activity 6. Listen to the speaker and imitate the tongue twister.
Learn it by heart.
Of all the felt I ever felt,
I never felt a piece of felt
Which felt as fine as that felt felt,
When first I felt that felt hat’s felt.
[ æ ]
²Activity 1. Listen and repeat the words paying attention to the sound [æ].
A.
act -actor-actress-acting-action-activity
back-bad-badly-ballet-bank-bankrupt-bat-batch-battery
cab-cactus-calendar-camp-cancer-canvass-capture
dab-daddy-dandy-damn-damned-damage-damp
fact-faculty-family-fantasy-fashion-fat
gas-gash-gather-gatherer-gathering
habit-habitable-habitat-habitation
hand-handbag-handbook-handful-handmade
lamb-lamp-land-landing-landlady-landlord-landscape
mad-madden-madly-madman-madmen-madness
narrative-narrow- narrowly-narrow-minded-natural-naturalist
rabbit-rabble-rabid-radical-rag-ragged-raggedy-ragtag
vacuum-valid-valley-value-valuable
B. nap – kidnap land – border-land glad – gladness
sack – knapsack cap – captain match – football-match
hand – back-hand bank – bankrupt clap – claptrap
catch – catchword act – action classic – classical
dam – damage bad – badminton flat – flatland
C. [æ] ash anguish marry parrot radical
apple animal carry parry ramble
angle anxious tarry parody rap
anchor adverb parry parish rant
ankle antonym carrot parity rapid
anger antelope carroty carriage rapport
²Activity 2. Contrasting Sound Practice
Listen and repeat the words paying attention to the sounds.
A.
[ æ ] – [ e ] badge – bedding balance – belly laugh batch – bench
captious – kept cattle – kettle cat – debt
clamp – cleft daffy – deaf hat – head
fashion – fester happy – helper lamp – lemon
B. [ æ ] – [ e ] – [ i ] – [ i: ]
bad – bed – bid – bead man – men – mink – mean
batter – better – bitter – beaten mass – mess – mist – meter
latter – letter – litter – lease bland – blend – blink – bleed
pack – peck – pick – peak pan – pen – pin – peel
sad – said – sit – seed than – then – this – these
sand – send – sin – scene tack – tech – tick – teak
Activity 3. Read the sentences. Mind the reading rules.
Pack the bags.
Have a snack, Jack.
Fancy that!
That’s absolutely fantastic!
The lad cannot be that bad.
Ann chatters like a magpie.
Pat cannot catch that.
Just imagine!
Sam wrote a bad exam.
It wasn’t as bad as that.
Jack isn’t a bad chap.
The man managed to land safely.
Alice was so happy about her cat.
He let the cat out of the bag.
Activity 4. Read the proverbs according to the reading rules.
Activity 5. Read the rhymes. Mind the sound [æ].
Pussy cat, Pussy cat, Pussy cat, Pussy cat,
Will you catch that big fat rat? That fat rat is very bad.
It is sitting by the ham If you catch it, I’ll be glad.
Just behind the apple jam. I’ll give you some milk for that.
[ a: ]
²Activity 1. Listen and repeat the words paying attention to the sound [a:].
A.
art-artist-artistry-article-arm-bar-scar-star-start-bart-part-dark-park
glass-grass-pass-class
fast-master-last-vast-plaster
ask-flask-mask-task
grasp-hasp-rasp-raspberry
half-calf-calm-palm-psalm
ant-grant-plant-can’t
father-rather-bath-bathroom-path
after-raft-craft
dance-glance-France-chance
heart-hearth
B. part – partial hearth – hearthrug mast – master
large – largish pass – password garb – garbage
art – artist bath – bathroom vast – vastness
grass – grassy hard – hardworking part – partner
fast – fastness park – parking half – halfway
harm – harmless mark – market harvest – harvester