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Memory Work:
When the weather is wet
We must not fret, —
When the weather is cold
We must not scold.
When
the weather is warm
We must not storm, —
But be thankful together
Whatever the weather.
EXERCISES
I. a) The material below is to be prepared for reading. Mark the
stresses and tunes. Concentrate your attention on sounds. b) Let your fel
lowstudent read the sentences for you to detect his errors in sounds and
tell him what must be done to eliminate them:
[e] 1. Get ten eggs ready for breakfast.
2. Every day in every way.
The weather is getting better and better.
3. East or West home is best.
4. All is well that ends well.
5. Better late than never.
6. Health is above wealth.
II. Before you start working at the texts practise the sounds in the
following word combinations from the texts:
A.
1. [ŋ]
raining a little, wearing a mackintosh, carrying an
umbrella,
spreading over London, floating across
the sky, having a flight;
2. [:] their first words, almost certain, the other person,
turned ripe;
3. [υ — — ɒ] almost, can only crawl along, the ponds
are frozen over, a fight with snowballs.
B.
1. Alveolars replaced by dentals: read the weatherfore
cast,
and the sun, but the English, about the weather,
look at this.
2. Nasal plosion: it must be, it never, let me, like it now.
3. Loss of plosion: must be, what does it,
but bright,
spread to, it pours.
