Chapter 9  Supplementary Units.

- It wasn't Kate, was it?
- No, it wasn't. Someone with eyes even bigger than hers.
 Somebody tall and slim.
- But I don't know anybody tall and slim with big blue eyes, except Kate.
- Oh, yes, you do. Try and guess.
- Oh, I've enough of this game. Come on, tell me. Who it
was?
- Your dear aunt Elizabeth...
The tasks:

1. Compare the sequence of tones in alternative and disjunctive questions.
2. Read the dialogue very expressively.
3. Give the examples on glottal stop and explain what it
   means.
4. Characterize the consonant [w].

Linking [r].
The tasks:

1. When is linking [r] inserted between the words?
2. In what cases is it not used?
3. Drill the following:

Bird Talk
"Think..." said the Robin,
"Think..." said the Jay,
sitting in the garden,
talking one day.
"Think about people –
the way they grow:
they don't have feathers at all you know.
They don't eat beetles,
 they don't grow wings,
 they don't like sitting on wires and things."
'Think..." said the Robin.
"Think..." said the Jay.
"Aren't people funny to be that way?"
(by Alleen Fisher)

1. Find the words with occlusive, nasal, backlingual, consonant in the verse.
2. Describe its articulation.
3. Read the verse expressively.
4. Read the following word-combinations and sentences many times:

    sitting and writing
    singing and crying
    swimming and diving
    sing a song!
    being tired
    seeing is believing
Saying and doing are different things. The spring brings many charming things. They ran and rang the bell. I think this thing is impossible.

Section 3
Read the dialogue:
John: — Hello,
Mick: — Hello,
John: — Yes, Mick.
Mick: — Hi. Fancy coming out for a drink?
John: — I can't really. We are having dinner in a few minutes.
How about a bit later?
Mick: — All right. Would about 9 o'clock be OK?
John: — Fine by nine. Do you want to come round or shall I
see you in the pub?
Mick: — In the pub.
John: — OK, see you then about 9.
Mick: — Right you are. See you.
The tasks:

1. Put the stresses and tunes.
2. Indicate the dialogue on the staves.

Read the verse:
                  Dreams
                   (Langston Hughes)

                  Hold fast to dreams,
                   For if dreams die
                   Life is a broken-winged bird
                   That cannot fly.
                   Hold fast to dreams
                   For when dreams go
                   Life is a barren field,
                   Frozen with snow.

The task:
 Give examples on assimilation.

Underline the sound that changes, and write what it changes to.
          k
a) white gloves
white coffee
white paper
white magic
white bread
b) red gold
red carpet
red pepper
red medicine
red-brick
c)  green grass
green card
green pepper
Green movement
green belt

Say the words fast, with assimilation.

Underline the sound that charge and write. What if changes to read the rhymes with assimilation
1. (a)She sells sea-shells on the sea-shore;
The shells she sells are sea-shells, I'm sure.
So if she sells sea-shells on the sea-shore,
Then I'm sure she sells sea-shore shells.
(b)Swan swam over the sea —
Swim, swan, swim;
Swan swam back again —
Well swum swan.

2. To market, to market, to buy a fat pig,
Home again, home again, jiggety jig;
To market, to market, to buy a fat hog,
Home again, home again, jiggety  jog.
To market,   to market,   to buy a plum bun,
Home again, home again, market is done.

3. Look to left and look to right,
Note what traffic is in sight.
Note, too, which light can be seen:
The Red, the Amber, or the Green.
Children, keep from dangerous  play
And THINK before you cross today.

4. Transcribe   the words used   to   imitate   the sound by different animals.
Bow-wow, says the dog;
Mew, mew, says the cat;
Grunt, grunt, goes the hog;
And squeak, goes the rat.
Tu-whu, says the owl;
Caw, caw, says the crow;
Quack, quack, says the duck;
And moo, says the cow.

The tasks:                                                                                

1. What is this sound: constrictive, lateral, forelingual, apical, alveolar, sonorant?
2. Read the words:

less	till	pill
least	kill	lip
lab	still	sail
labial	fillet	football
labor	feel	loaf
Lucy	file	lean
lake	ill	hill
by	local	couple
lunch	total	candle
lantern	will	pull
lit	well	pulling
let	tell	call
little	sell	sold

3. Point out the "dark" and 'light" variants of the sound.
   What's the difference?
4. Read the sentences and drill the pronunciation of:

Little Lilly is ludicrous.
Roll my log and I will roll yours.
Look before leap.
Likes and dislikes.
A little pill may cure a great ill.
Let Lucy light a candle and we'll all look for the missing ball.
Tell Will to fill the pail with milk.
He lost his wife in the struggle for liberty.
The tasks:

1. Characterize the consonant [w]
2. What phonetic peculiarities are the given words on? Explain it.

a)Read the following:
a weeping willow
a wide window
a white wolf
to wear a watch
to wash with water
to wind a watch

b) Which word would one want if one wanted a word?
 It was a pleasure to watch the wonderful way in which they worked.

“What", "why", "when" and "where" are the words we require quite often when we want to ask questions.

9.1. Practise the English sounds
9.2. Rhymes.
9.3. Proverbs, sayings
9.4. Tasks.
9.5. Poems, limericks, crooks