Cash in the Ice-Cream Carton
Colin: OK, Mike. At six o'clock you take a taxi to the bank. Max will come out with the cash in a cream-coloured case...
Mike: I'm to collect the cash?
Colin: Of course. Don't ask questions. Just concentrate.
Mike: Colin, if they catch me I'll confess.
Colin: Keep quiet, can't you? At a quarter to six Coco will be parked at the corner of the Market Square.
Mike: I'll scream. I'm a coward. The kids at school called me...
Colin: Pack the cash in the ice-cream carton in the back of the car and make your way as quickly as you can back to the cafe.
Mike: Colin, I'm scared.
Colin: Oh, crikey, Mike! You do make me sick!
Exercise VII.Read the rhymes and learn them.
1. We all work together with a wiggle and a giggle,
We all work together with a giggle and a grin,
With a wiggle and a giggle and a google and a woogle,
A jigger and a jagger and a giggle and a grin.
2. There was an old man of Columbia,
Who was thirsty, and called out for some beer,
But they brought it quite hot,
In a small copper pot,
Which disgusted that man of Columbia.
3. There was an old person of Cromer,
Who stood on one leg to read Homer,
When he found he grew stiff,
He jumped over the cliff,
Which concluded that old person of Cromer.
4. There was a crooked man, and he walked a crooked mile,
He found a crooked sixpence against a crooked stile,
He bought a crooked cat which caught a crooked mouse,
And they all lived together in a little crooked house.
5. Golden Hour (by J. Keats)
Golden in the garden Golden in the tree tops
Golden in the glen Golden in the sky
Golden, golden, golden Golden, golden, golden
September's here again. September's passing by.
Exercise VIII.Transcribe the proverbs and learn them.
1. Curiosity killed the cat.
2. To cut your coat according to your cloth.
3. Cool as a cucumber.
4. The pot calling the kettle black.
5. A cat may look at a king.
6. Catch as catch can.
7. To kill the goose that lays the golden eggs.
8. All that glitters is not gold.
9. As good as gold.
10. To give as good as you get.
Exercise IX.Pronounce the following sentences with aspiration.
1. Кукушка кукушонку купила капюшон.
2. Капа, купи кипу пик.
3. Коваль колокол ковал, ковал и перековывал.
4. В нашей покупке крупы и крупки.
5. Королева кавалеру каравеллу подарила.
6. Карл у Клары украл кораллы.
7. У кошки в лукошке пряники, коврижки, пироги да пышки.
UNIT 15. [n] - [m]
Exercise I.Read the following words paying special attention to - correct pronunciation.
| 1. [n] | 2. [m] | ||||
| no | button | snow | me | him | smile |
| now | cotton | ninth | more | ham | smoke |
| near | often | tenth | my | hem | memory |
| nor | sun | panther | meal | bum | member |
| new | noon | unreal | may | sum | woman |
| name | ten | sunrise | miss | rum | family |
| need | learn | sunset | mess | room | German |
| never | on | event | mister | tram | James |
| nose | in | offence | milk | warm | remember |
| north | man | send | money | form | remarkable |
| neither | down | Sunday | mind | farm | memorable |
3. [n] - [m]
sun — sum new — mew
run — rum none — mum
bun — bum need — meed
4. Silent n
column solemn autumn
Exercise II.Read the following sense-groups, mind the rhythm and intonation.
(a) Memphis; museum at Memphis; mammoth in the museum at Memphis; an immense mammoth in the museum at Memphis.
(b) line; pen line; a fine pen line; again with a fine pen line; again and again with a fine pen line; his name again and again with a fine pen line; sign his name again and again with a fine pen line; Brown signs his name again and again with a fine pen line; Norman Brown signs his name again and again with a fine pen line.
Exercise III.Transcribe and intone the following sentences. Practise reading them in pairs.
[m] (a) 1. Marmaduke and Mary have mumps.
2. "They mustn't munch marmalade sandwiches at the moment", says Mummy.
3. The museum has many memorable monuments to the memory of some remarkable members of the Moslem community.
4. Martha always makes a mountain out of a molehill.
5. Just a moment, Mathew.
6. If my memory serves me...
[n] b) 1. Nick is no genius.
2. No doubt Nickolas knows Nigel.
3. Naughty, Nancy has bent the knitting needles and knotted Nanny's knitting.
4. Henry hands his nephew Nigel a brand-new pound note on Sundays.
[n] — [m] c) 1. No offence meant.
2. It's no concern of mine.
3. The name slipped my memory.
4. Money spent on the brain is never spent in vain.
5. You mustn't mind about me, Mike.
6. Nick knows no more about the murder than the man in the moon.
Exercise IV. Read the tongue-twisters and learn them.
1. Miss, miss, little Miss, miss,
When she misses, she misses like this.
2.I need not your needles
They are needless to me.
Exercise V.Read the dialogues, mark the stresses and tunes. Learn them. Act out the dialogues.