Listen and repeat the words paying attention to the sounds. A. [Λ] [a:]hush – harsh hut – hard touch – tart
A. [Λ] [a:]hush – harsh hut – hard touch – tart
muck – mark fun – farm bun – barn
us – grass plum – palm love – laugh
fuss – farce pus – pass much – March
duck – dark country – can’t sludge – large
B. [Λ] – [æ] – [e] – [a:]
cut – cat – kettle – cart lust – lass – less – last
bud – bad – bed – bard hut – hat – het up – heart
musk – mass – mess – mask fuss – fat – fester – fast
tusk – tax – text – task luck – lack – leg – lark
dug – drag – deck – dark strung – strand – strength – star
Activity 3. Read the proverbs according to the reading rules.
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Activity 4. Read the sentences. Mind the reading rules.
Something must be done.
Don’t touch this money till next
month.
Something must be done to save
the funds.
The mother won some of the
money, but not enough.
The dust is under the rug.
I’d love to come on Sunday if
it’s not sunny.
Activity 5. Read the words in bold type and explain their reading rules.
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Read the poems.
Donkey and monkey.
Donkey and monkeywent to the park.
Donkey and monkey want to buy a big tart.
- Where is your money? Where is your money?
- Donkey and monkey have no money.
Oh, funny donkey, oh, funny monkey,
Donkey and monkey have no money.
Donkey and monkey want to buy honey.
- Where is your money? Where is your money?
- Donkey and monkey have no money.
The Brook
Grumbling, stumbling, fumbling all the day.
Fluttering, stuttering, muttering away,
Rustling, hustling, bustling as it flows,
That it how the brook talks, bubbling as it goes.
A. Tennyson
²Activity 6. Listen to the speaker and imitate the tongue twisters.
Learn one of them by heart.
Don’t trouble troubles till troubles trouble you.
It only doubles troubles and troubles others, too.
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First a daughter, then a son
And the world is well begun.
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To market, to market to buy a plum bun
Home come, home come, market is done.
[ ә:]
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BUT! [a:]
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BUT!BUT!BUT!
[u:] [Λ ] [כ:]
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²Activity 1. Listen and repeat the words paying attention to the sound [ә:].
A.
· fir-firm-first-sir-stir-dirt-dirk-girl-shirt-third-chirp
· cur-curl-curd-curt-fur-slur-spur-bur-burn-burst-turn-purse-thurst-nurse-church-churl-hurt
· her-fern-berth-berg-mercury-perfect-kerb-kern-kerchief
· work-world-word-worth-worse-worst-worm-worsen-worship
· worn-wore
· worry-worrisome-worrier
· worsted
· were
· earl-pearl-earn-learner-earth-earthly-heard
B. burst – outburst bur – burden gird – girdle
shirt – nightshirt verse – universe girl – girlish
curve – curvature urge – urgent further – furthermore
curb – curfew curt – curtain turn – turnabout
hurt – hurtle dirt – dirty shirt – shirtsleeves
Activity 2. Contrasting Sound Practice