I never felt a piece of felt
Which felt as fine as that felt felt,
When first I felt that felt hat’s felt.
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[ æ ]
² Activity 1. Listen and repeat the words paying attention to the sound [æ] .
A.
· 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.
A.
[ 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.
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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
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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
