| Jim: | Excuse me. Did you use to live in York? |
| Jack: | Yes. |
| Jim: | Did you use to be a tutor at the University? |
| Jack: | Yes. For a few years. |
| Jim: | Do you remember Hugh Young? He was a music student. |
| Jack: | Hugh Young? Did he use to have a huge yellow jeep? |
| Jim: | Yes. And he used to play beautiful tunes on the tuba. |
| Jack: | Yes, I knew Hugh. He used to be a very stupid student. Do you have any news of Hugh? |
| Jim: | Yes. He's a millionaire now in New York. |
| Jack: | A millionaire? Playing the tuba? |
| Jim: | Oh, no. He produces jam in tubes, and tins of sausages and onion stew, and sells them in Europe. I read about Hugh in the newspaper yesterday. |
| Jack: | Oh! Well, he wasn't so stupid. |
Unit 39 [ h ] hat
How high he holds his head.
Henry had a huge hole in the heel of the sole.
He wished Helen happy holidays.
Practice 1 Listen and repeat:
| Sound 1 | Sound 2 |
| ill | hill |
| eel | heel |
| and | hand |
| old | hold |
| ear | hear |
| eye | high |
Test Tick the words you recognise in the sentences you hear:
1 a) eels; b) heels
2 a) and; b) hand
3 a) eye; b) high
4 a) art; b) heart
5 a) ow; b) how
6 a) air; b) hair
Practice 2 Listen and repeat:
| hit | having | horse |
| Hilda | happened | heard |
| Mrs Higgins | hospital | hope |
| hello | horrible | perhaps |
| Helen | how | behind |
| husband | house | unhappy |
Dialogue: A horrible accident
| Helen: | Hello, Ellen. |
| Ellen: | Hello, Helen. Have you heard? There's been a horrible accident. |
| Helen: | Oh, dear! What's happened? |
| Ellen: | Hilda Higgins' husband has had an accident on his horse. |
| Helen: | How awful! Is he injured? |
| Ellen: | Yes. An ambulance has taken him to hospital. |
| Helen: | How did it happen? |
| Ellen: | He was hit by an express train. It was on the crossing just behind his house. |
| Helen: | How horrible! |
| Ellen: | He's having an important operation in hospital now. Poor Hilda! She's so unhappy. |
| Helen: | Perhaps he'll be all right. |
| Ellen: | I hope so. |
Unit 40 [ θ ] thin
I cant think of six thin things. Can you?
Yes, I can think of six thin things and of six thick things too.
This is the third time this month that I have a sore throat.
Practice 1 Listen and repeat: Practice 2 Listen and repeat:
| Sound1 | Sound2 | Sound 1 | Sound 2 | |
| mouse | mouth | free | three | |
| sum | thumb | first | thirst | |
| sick | thick | fin | thin | |
| sink | think | Fred | thread | |
| pass | path | half | hearth |
Practice 3 Listen and repeat:
| Sound 1 | Sound 2 |
| tin | thin |
| tree | three |
| tanks | thanks |
| sheet | sheath |
Test Tick the words you recognise in the sentences you hear:
1 a) sink; b) think
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2 a) mouse; b) mouth
3 a) tin; b) thin
4 a) taught; b) thought
5 a) moss; b) moth
6 a) fought; b) thought
Practice 4 Listen and repeat:
| thank you | Ethel | Judith |
| thought | author | worth |
| thousand | nothing | Mrs Smith |
| thirsty | something | Smiths |
| Thursday | birthday | Edith |
| thirty -three | mathematician | moths |
Dialogue: Gossip
| Judith: | Edith Smith is only thirty. |
| Ethel: | Is she? I thought she was thirty-three. |
| Judith: | Edith's birthday was last Thursday. |
| Ethel: | Was it? I thought it was last month. |
| Judith: | The Smiths' house is worth thirty thousand pounds. |
| Ethel: | Is it? I thought it was worth three thousand. |
| Judith: | Mr Smith is the author of a book about moths. |
| Ethel: | Is he? I thought he was a mathematician. |
| Judith: | I'm so thirsty. |
| Ethel: | Are you? I thought you drank something at the Smiths. |
| Judith: | No. Edith gave me nothing to drink. |
| Ethel: | Shall I buy you a drink? |
| Judith: | Thank you. |
Unit 41 [ ð ] the feather
Is this this is? This is is this.
Practice 1 Listen and repeat: Practice 2 Listen and repeat:
| Sound 1 | Sound 2 | Sound 1 | Sound 2 |
| Dan | than | bays | bathe |
| day | they | close | clothe |
| dare | there | whiz | with |
| doze | those | breeze | breathe |
| Ida | either | boos | booth |
| size | scythe |
Practice 3 Listen and repeat:
| Sound 1 | Sound 2 |
| Whats this? | This is the zoo |
| What are those? | Thats a zebu |
| Whats this? | This is Z |
| Whats that? | Thats a zero |
| What are these? | These are zips |
| Whos that | Thats Zack |
Test Tick the words you recognise in the sentences you hear:
1 a) Ida; b) either
2 a) day; b) they
3 a) dares; b) there's
4 a) size; b) scythe
5 a) bays; b) bathe
6 a) boos; b) boot
Practice 4 Listen and repeat:
| the | together | another |
| this | feathers | smoother |
| that | leather | rather |
| clothes | Miss Brothers |
