(Myra and Violet are typists in the library.)
Myra: | Hello, Mike! |
Mike: | Hello, Myra. Hello, Violet! Youre looking nice, Violet. |
(silence) | |
Mike: | Would you like some ice-cream, Violet? |
Violet: | No thanks, Mike. Im busy typing. Talk to me some other time. I have ninety-nine pages to type by Friday. |
Mike: | Never mind. Do you like riding, Violet? |
Violet: | Sometimes. |
Mike: | Would you like to come riding with me tonight, Violet? |
Violet: | Not tonight, Mike. Im going for a drive with Nigel. |
Mike: | What about Friday? |
Violet: | I'm going climbing with Miles. |
Mike: | Hm! Oh, all right. Bye! |
Myra: | Violet, he's put something behind your typewriter. |
Violet: | Is it something nice, Myra? |
Myra: | No. It's a spider. |
Unit 17 [ oi ] boy
That noise is very annoying
Yes, this is very annoying noise.
In a noisy voice he said that oysters were poisonous and I had spoilt his enjoyment.
Practice 1 Listen and repeat:
Sound1 | Sound2 |
all | oil |
ball | boil |
corn | coin |
tore | toy |
jaw | joy |
Test Tick the words you recognise in the sentences you hear:
1 a) corn b) coin 4 a) aw; b) oi
2 a) bawling; b) boiling 5 a) bore; b) boy
3 a) all; b) oil 6 a) all; b) oil
Practice 2 Listen and repeat:
toy | annoying | Joyce |
enjoy | boiling | voice |
noisiest | pointing | Rolls Royce |
destroyed | spoilt | boyfriend |
Dialogue: Joyce's Rolls Royce
(Joyce takes her Rolls Royce to the garage.)
Garage boy: | What a terrible noise! |
Joyce: | Eh? |
Garage boy: | (raising his voice) WHAT A TERRIBLE NOISE! This is the noisiest Rolls Royce I've ever heard. |
Joyce: | (pointing) Its out oil. |
Garage boy: | Out of oil? And look the water's boiling. Madam, a Rolls Royce isn't a toy Perhaps you've spoilt the motor or even destroyed it. |
Joyce: | How annoying! W\uh you're changing the oil, I'll go and visit my boyfriend, Roy. |
Unit 18 Review
Listening: Recognise the sounds you hear.
1 | 2 | 3 |
ei | ai | oi |
bay | buy | boy |
ale | isle | oil |
paint | pint | point |
race | rice | Royce |
Unit 19 [ au ] house
Mr. Brown found an owl in town.
Round and round the town
Went the crowd shouting
Louder and louder Down with the crown.
Practice 1 Listen and repeat:
Sound1 | Sound 2 |
car | cow |
bar | bow |
bra | brow |
grass | grouse |
arch | ouch |
Test Tick the words you recognise in the sentences you hear:
1 a) car; b) cow
2 a) grass; b) grouse
3 a) bra; b) brow
4 a) ha; b) how
5 a) ah; b) ow!
6 a) tarn; b) town
Practice 2 Listen and repeat:
Ow! | ground | out | our |
now | Brown | mouse | ours |
town | lounge | house | our house |
found | loudly | shouting | |
round | upside-down | couch |
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Dialogue: A mouse in a house
Mrs Drown: | (shouting loudly) I'VE FOUND A MOUSE! |
Mr Brown: | Ow! You're shouting too loudly. Sit down and don't shout |
Mrs Drown: | (sitting down) I've found a mouse in the house! |
Mr Brown: | A brown mouse? |
Mrs Drown: | Yes. A little round mouse. It's running around in the lounge |
Mr Brown: | On the ground? |
Mrs Drown: | Yes. It's under the couch now. |
Mr Brown: | Well, get it out. |
Mrs Drown: | How? |
Mr Brown: | Turn the couch upside-down. Get it out somehow. We don't want a mouse in our house. Ours is the cleanest house in the town! |
Unit 20 [əu ] phone
Im going to see my old folks at home.
Oh, no. Dont go home alone
Nobody knows how lonely the road is.
Practice 1 Listen and repeat: Practice 2 Listen and repeat:
Sound 1 | Sound 2 | Sound 1 | Sound 2 |
burn | bone | caught | coat |
fern | phone | nought | note |
work | woke | bought | boat |
flirt | float | jaw | Joe |
ball | bow |
Test Tick the words you recognise in the sentences you hear:
1 a) cork; b) coke
2 a) fern; b) phone
3 a) or; b)Oh!
4 a) ball; b) bowl
5 a) burn; b) bone
6 a) walk; b) work c) woke
Practice 3 Listen and repeat:
Oh! know don't joking
no throw Joan woke
Joe snow groans coat
go over closed OK
ago nose Jones
window hello October
Dialogue: Snow in October
(Joe Jones is sleeping, but Joan woke up a few minutes ago.)
Joan: | Joe!Joe! JOE! Hello! |
Joe: | (groans) Oh! What is it, Joan? |
Joan: | Look out of the window. |
Joe: | No: My eyes are closed, and I'm going to go to sleep again. |
Joan: | Don't go to sleep, Joe. Look at the snow! |
Joe: | Snow? But it's only October. I know there's no snow. |
Joan: | Come over to the window, Joe |
Joe: | You're joking, Joan. There's no snow. |
Joan: | OK. I'll put my coat on and go out and make a snowball and throw it at your nose, Joe Jones! |
Unit 21 [ iə ] beer
Come nearer here, my dear,
I cant hear you from here.
We are near the end of the year.
Practice 1 Listen and repeat:
Sound 1 | Sound 2 |
E | ear |
bee | beer |
tea | tear |
pea | pier |
bead | beard |
Test Tick the words you recognise in the sentences you hear:
1 a) bee; b) beer
2 a) tea; b) tear
3 a) bead; b) beard
4 a) pea; b)pier
5 a) E's; b) ears
6 a) Dee; b) dear
Practice 2 Listen and repeat:
Lear | year | Cheers! | Austria |
here | idea | nearly | windier |
hear | atmosphere | bearded | easier |
dear | mountaineer | disappeared | clear |