| Mrs Marsh: | Does this shop sell washing machines? |
| Mr Shaw: | Yes. This is the newest washing machine, madam. |
| Mrs Marsh: | Is it Swedish? |
| Mr Shaw: | No, madam. It's English. |
| Mrs Marsh: | Please show me how it washes. |
| Mr Shaw: | Shall I give you a demonstration? Here are some sheets and shirts. You put them in the machine. You shut the door. And you push this button. |
| Mrs Marsh: | The machine shouldn't shake like that, should it? |
| Mr Shaw: | Washing machines always shake madam. Ah! It's finished now. |
| Mrs Marsh: | But the sheets have shrunk and so have the shirts. |
| Mr Shaw: | Do you wish to buy this machine, madam? |
| Mrs Marsh: | I'm not sure. |
Unit 32 [ʒ] television
Eat at pleasure, drink with measure.
I cant measure the pleasure I have in viewing this treasure at leisure.
Practice 1 Listen and repeat:
| television | treasure | an unusual collision |
| garage | casual clothes | |
| measuring tape | Asia |
Unit 33 [ ʧ] cherry
What a charming child!
How much wood would a wood-chuck chuck
If a wood-chuck would chuck wood?
Practice 1 Listen and repeat:
| Sound 1 | sound 2 |
| ship | chips |
| sheep | cheap |
| sherry | cherry |
| cash | catch |
| wash | watch |
Test Tick the words you recognise in the sentences you hear:
1 a) shop; b) chop
2 a) sherry; b) cherry
3 a) washing; b) watching
4 a) ships; b) chips
5 a) shin; b) chin
6 a) shoes; b) choose
Practice 2 Listen and repeat:
| children | butchers shop | Mrs Church |
| cheque | clump chops | much |
| Cheshire | Shoulder chops | which |
| cheaper | a delicious chicken | |
| choose | childrens lunch |
Dialogue: At the butcher's shop
| Butcher: | Good morning, Mrs Church. |
| Mrs Church: | Good morning Mr Cheshire. I'd like some chops for the children's lunch. |
| Butcher: | Chump chops or shoulder chops Mrs Church? |
| Mrs Church: | Mrs Church: Ill have four shoulder chops, and I want a small chicken. |
| Butcher: | Would you like to choose a chicken, Mrs Church? |
| Mrs Church: | Which one is cheaper? |
| Butcher: | This one's the cheapest. It's a delicious chicken. |
| Mrs Church: | How much is all that? I haven't got cash. Can I pay by cheque? |
| Butcher: | Of course, Mrs Church. |
Unit 34 [ʤ] jam
Teaching geography is the joy of his life.
Jack and Gill went up the hill
To fetch a pallet water
Jack fell down and broke his crown
And Jill came tumbling after.
The aged judge urges the jury to be just but generous.
Practice 1 Listen and repeat:
| Sound 1 | Sound 2 |
| cheap | jeep |
| choke | joke |
| chin | gin |
| cherry | Jerry |
| larch | large |
| h | age |
Test Tick the words you recognise in the sentences you hear:
1 a) choking; b) joking
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2 a) larch; b) large
3 a) cheap; b)jeep
4 a) chain; b)Jane
5 a) chilly; b) Jilly
6 a) cheered; b) jeered
Practice 2 Listen and repeat:
| gin | dangerous | village |
| jeep | manager | bridge |
| January | agency | edge |
| just | injured | large |
| joke | passenger | George Churchill |
| jail | damaged | ginger-haired chap |
Dialogue: George Churchill
| Jerry: | Just outside this village there's a very dangerous bridge. |
| John: | Yes. Charles told me two jeeps crashed on it in January. What happened? |
| Jerry: | Well George Churchill was the driver of the larger jeep, and he was driving very dangerously. He'd been drinking gin. |
| John: | George Churchill? Do I know George Churchill? |
| Jerry: | Yes. That ginger-haired chap. He's the manager of the travel agency in Chester. |
| John: | Oh, yes. I remember George. He's always telling jokes. Well, was anybody injured? |
| Jerry: | Oh, yes. The other jeep went over the edge of the bridge, and two children and another passenger were badly injured |
| John: | Were both the jeeps damaged? |
| Jerry: | Oh, yes. |
| John: | And what happened to George? |
| Jerry: | George? He's telling jokes in jail now, I suppose! |
Unit 35 [ f ] fan
This fish has a thin fin
That fish has a thick fin
This fish is a fish that has a thinner fin than that fish.
Practice 1 Listen and repeat:
| Sound 1 | Sound 2 |
| pin | fin |
| peel | feel |
| pail | fail |
| pine | fine |
| ship | sniff |
| harp | half |
Practice 2 Listen and repeat:
| Sound 1 | Sound 2 |
| hat | fat |
| heat | feet |
| hill | fill |
| heel | feel |
| hall | fall |
| hole | foal |
Test Tick the words you recognise in the sentences you hear:
1 a) pin; b) fin
2 a) peel; b) feel
3 a) snipping; b) sniffing
4 a) heel; b) feel
5 a) hat; b) fat
6 a) pole; b) hole; c) foal
Practice 3 Listen and repeat:
| fill in | full front | comfortable | photograph |
| finished | friendly | after | photographer |
| feels fine | office | Mr Puffin | myself |
| five | sofa | difficult | soft |
| for | profile | if | Phillip |
| form | telephone | wife | Phillippa |
| February | beautiful | laugh |
