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Activity 4. Read the sentences. Mind the reading rules.
Go and get your grandmothers glasses.
Gloria gave gracious get-togethers.
Golf is a game when you use a white ball into a hole in the ground.
Glare means an angry look.
George was very generous and gentle.
Goodness means the quality of being morally good.
The younger generation generates a new image.
A giant is an imaginary person in the stories.
Have you ever seen a gigantic giant or a gigantic giraffe?
As a gesture of goodwill we agreed to do the work free of charge.
Activity 5. Read the similes. Which one do you like most of all? And why?
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Activity 6. Read the proverbs according to the reading rules.
Can you find Russian versions for them?
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Activity 1. Read the words and sentences. Mind the reading rules.
gnarr gnarl gnarled gnat gnaw gnawing gnome gnomic
align sign design malign resign benign reign foreign campaign designer foreigner alignment
Gnat is a very small flying insect. Nick was called agnostic-fellow.
He was so gnarled. The gnome was good-hearted.
She answered with a gnash of the teeth. He was gnawed by fear.
[ŋ]
² Activity 2. Listen to the words and repeat them after the speaker
paying attention to the sound [ŋ].
ring bring boring sing king thing finger singer wing
long song strong belong wrong prolong longing tongue young
sing sang sung ring rang rung
going discussing reading speaking sitting sleeping writing reading
Activity 3. Read the rhyme paying attention to the sound [ŋ].
The singers sing a nice song -
Ting-a-long, ting-a-long.
The song they sing is very long
Ting-a-long, ting-a long.
Activity 4. Read the sentences. Mind the reading rules.
The singer sang a long song.
Your fingers are longer and stronger than mine.
The rings belong to the singer.
The singer was wrong.
Reading was boring for him.
It is a boring thing.
Look! Our team is winning.
Its exciting!
He was a very strong and amazingly interesting person.
Activity 5. Read the proverbs according to the reading rules.
Can you find Russian versions for them?
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² Activity 6. Read the words in bold type, explain the reading rules of
the letters gn, ng. Read the poem according to the reading rules.
WINTER MORNING
Winter is the king of snow men,
Turning tree stumps into snow men
And houses into birthday cakes
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And spreading sugar over lakes.
Smooth and clean and frosty white,
The world looks good enough to bite.
Thats the season to be young,
Catching snowflakes on your tongue.
Snow is so snowy when its snowing,
Im sorry its slushy when its going.
² Activity 7. Listen and repeat the words.
[ - ] high sigh weigh light flight might night right sight
[ f ] tough cough rough slough enough laugh draught rough
[ g ] ghastly ghoul ghost ghostly ghoulish ghetto
[ - ] through though thorough dough daughter
neighbour -borough
[ - ] ought bought brought caught fought taught
thought naught sought
Activity 8. Read the sentences. Mind the reading rules..
The sight was bright.
The night was light.
It was a high flight.
It was a right weight.
The neighbors were right.
The work was thorough.
He guided me through the museum.
We heard cough.
Its enough!
He looked ghastly.
² Activity 9. Listen to the speaker and imitate the tongue twisters.
