Read this conversation. Make the stressed words louder.
A: Ex cuse me.
B: Yes?
A: Could you tell me where I can get some good shoe laces?
B: Yes. Theres a shop next to the sup ermarket that sells ver y good shoe laces.
Im go ing there too.
Practise your own conversations in pairs.
- Excuse me.
- Yes?
- Could you tell me where I can get some good 1 .?
- Yes. Theres a shop next to the 2 ..that sells very good 1 Im going there too.
Use the words below.
1 shoelaces 2 supermarket
toothpaste swimming pool
football boots fruit shop
chewing gum tool shop
fruit juice wool shop
cookery books newspaper stand
Section 4
[ u: ]
(back, close (narrow variant), rounded, long)
I. Observe the position of the lips and the tongue for the sound [u: ]. Read the
words in the columns. Pay attention to the positional length of [ u: ].
too tomb tooth [u u:] pull - pool
boo booed boot full - fool
rue rude route foot - boot
coo cooed coot look - Luke
sou soon soup fullish - foolish
II. Read the sentences. Follow the tonetic marks.
1. Do as I do. .
2. Sues true blue. .
3. Ruth cant say boo to a goose. .
4. You are a nuisance, too. .
5. Rupert will do beautifully.
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6. Lets have news of you soon. .
7. Lou grew too big for his boots. .
8. Read the newspaper review
through and through. .
III. Observe the correct pronunciation of the rhythmic groups and the vowel [u:].
Id 'choose blue. | Id 'choose blue shoes. | Id 'choose blue 'shoes to 'take to school. | Id 'choose 'blue 'shoes to 'take to 'school to use. | Id 'choose blue 'shoes to 'take to 'school to 'use if 'I were `you. ||
IV. Match the following English idioms, proverbs and sayings with their Russian
equivalents. Make up situations to illustrate their usage.
1. No news is bad news. a. ,
2. There is a room for improvement b. -
3. in two twos c. -
4. stew in ones own juice d. ,
5. once in a blue moon e.
6. to shoe the goose f. -
7. shoot the moon g. ,
V. Pronounce the tongue twister in the quickest possible way. Observe the correct
articulation of [ u: ].
A tutor who tooted a flute,
Tried to tutor two tooters to toot.
Said the two to the tutor:
Is it harder to toot, or to tutor two tooters to toot?
Review questions and tasks.
1. What are the functions and the main components of intonation?
2. Define speech melody, sentence stress, speech tempo and timbre.
3. How can intonation be indicated in the text? What are the means of representing the speech melody in writing?
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4. Describe the structure of the intonation pattern.
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3. Crystal, David. The Cambridge Encyclopedia of the English Language Cambridge University Press, 2001. 489 c.
4. Baker, Ann. Ship or Sheep? An intermediate pronunciation course. Cambridge University Press, 1999 ( - 3 ).
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6. . . / .., .., .., .., .. .: . , 1980. 250 .
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