IV. Before you start working at the text practise the sounds in the
following words and word combinations:
1.
[e]
— November, eleventh, seventh, celebrate, gets,
guests, red, let, French, penfriends, fellow, mem
bers;
[]
— part, march, dark, park, France, party, mark;
[ʃ]
— revolution, demonstration, illuminations, English,
Spanish;
[ ]
— Warsaw, small, North.
2. a) Alveolars replaced by dentals: is the eleventh, on the
seventh, is the greatest, in the parks, and the guests,
on this day, in the history, is the birthday.
b) Loss of plosion: take part, what country, good time.
c) No voicing before voiced consonants: this day, gets dark,
much better.
d) No glottal stop: the anniversary, the illumination,
from all, let me introduce you, better than English,
but I understand, nearly everything, Lucy and I,
come on.
V. a) Listen to the dialogue. Mark the stresses and tunes. b) Practise
the dialogue for test reading. Listen to it very carefully until you can say
it in exactly the same way. c) Memorize and dramatize it.
VI. Give the degrees of comparison of the following adverbs and tran
scribe them:
slowly, fast, hard, badly, much, well, early, far, near, often,
late, quietly, easily, little, warmly, seriously, comfortably,
quickly.
VII. a) Put the adverbs in brackets in the correct place:
1. (never) Alex is late for his classes. 2. (usually) He has
dinner at two o’clock. 3. (seldom) I go to bed before twelve
o’clock. 4. (often) I speak Spanish with my mother. 5. (always)
He works in the lab after his lessons. 6. (still) Do you think that
she is ill? 7. (already) I think she is at home. 8. (sometimes)
I see him in the library.
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