Set phrases, idioms, sayings and proverbs
Curiosity killed the cat. Cut your coat according to your cloth. To kill the goose that lays the golden egg. Go and teach your grandmother to suck eggs.
Rhymes and tongue twisters.
1) Kris Kringle carefully crunched on candy canes.
2)Georgie Porgie, pudding and pie, 4) "K" was a kitten,
Kissed the girls and made them cry. That jumped at a cork,
When the boys came out to play, And learned to eat mice
Georgie Porgie ran away. Without plate, knife, or fork.
3)Go to bed, Tom. 5) Three grey geese
Go to bed, Tom! In a green field grazing,
Tired or not, Tom, Grey were the geese
Go to bed, Tom. And green was the grazing.
UNIT 15. [f] - [v] - [w]
Practice the sounds.
[ f] [ v ] [ w] Sounds in contrast
fat final van ever why one. fail - veil - whale
fox Phil vine travel what twin file - vile - while
far photo vest over when twenty fine - vine - wine
fly awful veil wives where t twelve fire - via - wire
fine after vase advise which twice feel - veal - wheel
few Africa vivid wave wind twist first - versed - worst
fuel left Viking five waves sweet fairy - vary - wary
float lift velvet give world quick feign - vein - wane
forest laugh violet leave work quite fend - vend - wend
future enough verse drove woods queen feared-veered-weird
Read as quickly as possible.
1) Frogs, funny frogs, fat funny frogs, is fond of fat funny frogs, Frank is
fond of fat funny frogs, Frank Forman is fond of fat funny frogs. In fact,
Frank Forman is fond of fat funny frogs and foxes.
2)In winter, vests in winter, woollen vests in winter, very warm woollen
vests in winter, wears very warm woollen vests in winter, always wears
very warm woollen vests in winter, Victor always wears very warm
woollen vests in winter. Victor White always wears very warm woolen
vests in winter.
Read the sentences. Pay attention to the sounds.
1)I found this funny fox cub in the forest on Friday afternoon! It's fantastic!
I've had an invitation from the University of Vladivostok to give a sur-
vey of my own creative verse. How marvellous! I have never visited
Vladivostok.
3)We weave well at "The Weavewell". A well-woven "weavewell" weave
wears well.
4)I work in an office in the capital, but live in the village. Well, just outside
the village, in fact, in an old farmhouse. I grow flowers and vegetables. I
like fresh air and the people are friendly.
Set phrases, idioms, sayings and proverbs.
Birds of a feather flock together. Vanity of vanities, all is vanity. Virtue is its own reward. All's fair in love and war. Where there's a will, there's a way. Fit as a fiddle.