Of all the felt I ever felt,

I never felt a piece of felt

Which felt as fine as that felt felt,

When first I felt that felt hat’s felt.

[ æ ]

² Activity 1. Listen and repeat the words paying attention to the sound [æ] .

· act -actor-actress-acting-action-activity

· back-bad-badly-ballet-bank-bankrupt-bat-batch-battery

· cab-cactus-calendar-camp-cancer-canvass-capture

· dab-daddy-dandy-damn-damned-damage-damp

· fact-faculty-family-fantasy-fashion-fat

· gas-gash-gather-gatherer-gathering

· habit-habitable-habitat-habitation

· hand-handbag-handbook-handful-handmade

· lamb-lamp-land-landing-landlady-landlord-landscape

· mad-madden-madly-madman-madmen-madness

· narrative-narrow- narrowly-narrow-minded-natural-naturalist

· rabbit-rabble-rabid-radical-rag-ragged-raggedy-ragtag

· vacuum-valid-valley-value-valuable

B. nap – kidnap land – border-land glad – gladness

sack – knapsack cap – captain match – football-match

hand – back-hand bank – bankrupt clap – claptrap

catch – catchword act – action classic – classical

dam – damage bad – badminton flat – flatland

C. [æ] ash anguish marry parrot radical

apple animal carry parry ramble

angle anxious tarry parody rap

anchor adverb parry parish rant

ankle antonym carrot parity rapid

anger antelope carroty carriage rapport

² Activity 2. Contrasting Sound Practice

Listen and repeat the words paying attention to the sounds.

[ æ ] – [ e ] badge – bedding balance – belly laugh batch – bench

captious – kept cattle – kettle cat – debt

clamp – cleft daffy – deaf hat – head

fashion – fester happy – helper lamp – lemon

B. [ æ ] – [ e ] – [ i ] – [ i: ]

bad – bed – bid – bead man – men – mink – mean

batter – better – bitter – beaten mass – mess – mist – meter

latter – letter – litter – lease bland – blend – blink – bleed

pack – peck – pick – peak pan – pen – pin – peel

sad – said – sit – seed than – then – this – these

sand – send – sin – scene tack – tech – tick – teak

Activity 3. Read the sentences. Mind the reading rules.

Pack the bags.

Have a snack, Jack.

Fancy that!

That’s absolutely fantastic!

The lad cannot be that bad.

Ann chatters like a magpie.

Pat cannot catch that.

Just imagine!

Sam wrote a bad exam.

It wasn’t as bad as that.

Jack isn’t a bad chap.

The man managed to land safely.

Alice was so happy about her cat.

He let the cat out of the bag.

Activity 4. Read the proverbs according to the reading rules.

Activity 5. Read the rhymes. Mind the sound [æ].

Pussy cat, Pussy cat, Pussy cat, Pussy cat,

Will you catch that big fat rat? That fat rat is very bad.

It is sitting by the ham If you catch it, I’ll be glad.

Just behind the apple jam. I’ll give you some milk for that.

[ a: ]

² Activity 1. Listen and repeat the words paying attention to the sound [a:] .

A.

· art-artist-artistry-article-arm-bar-scar-star-start-bart-part-dark-park

· glass-grass-pass-class

· fast-master-last-vast-plaster

· ask-flask-mask-task

· grasp-hasp-rasp-raspberry

· half-calf-calm-palm-psalm

· ant-grant-plant-can’t

· father-rather-bath-bathroom-path

· after-raft-craft

· dance-glance-France-chance

· heart-hearth

B. part – partial hearth – hearthrug mast – master

large – largish pass – password garb – garbage

art – artist bath – bathroom vast – vastness

grass – grassy hard – hardworking part – partner

fast – fastness park – parking half – halfway

harm – harmless mark – market harvest – harvester

heart – heart attack – heart break – heartland – heartfelt – kindhearted – heartless – heartsick – hearty heart-to-heart

BUT!

C.

· hard – hardly – harden – hardboard – hard line – hardworking

· mark – market – marketing – marketplace

· parliament – parliamentary – parliamentarian

· participant – participate – participation

· part – partner – partnership

· pass – passing – passport – passbook

· mast – master – masterpiece

· half – halfway – half-and-half

· palm – palmist – palmtop – palm tree

· nasty – nastily – nastiness

· lance – lancing – lancet

² Activity 2. Contrasting Sound Practice