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E. g. Sandra is as cross as two sticks.
◊ Exercise 5. Listen and repeat:
sit sensible interesting sleep six
Sam outside instead spend yes
sand seaside just swim Alice
Saturday star skiing
Sunday it’s expensive
sailing let’s exciting
◊Exercise 6. Read the dialogue. Learn it. Act out the dialogue:
It’s Expensive
Sam: Let’s go to the seaside on Saturday.
Alice: Yes! Let’s go sailing and water-skiing. That’s exciting.
Sam: It’s expensive too. Let’s just sit in the sun and go swimming instead.
Alice: Let’s stay in the Six Star Hotel and spend Sunday there too.
Sam: Be sensible, Alice. It’s too expensive. Let’s sleep outside instead.
Alice: Yes. Let’s sleep on the sand. That’s more exciting.
Exercise 7. Pronounce these tongue-twisters in the shortest possible time:
Some summer sunshine.
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Sue sells Swiss sweets.
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Sally sews shirts for soldiers.
Exercise 8. Give the Russian equivalents of the proverbs. Learn them. Make up a dialogue to illustrate one of the proverbs:
1. One swallow doesn’t make a summer.
2. Speech is silver, but silence is gold.
3. Necessity is the mother of invention.
4. Stolen pleasures are sweetest.
Unite 7. The Sound [z]
| The sound [z] occurs in word initial, word medial and word final positions. [z] is spelt «s, ss, z, zz, x» as in zero, lazy, roses, scissors, dizzy, exact mews. Definition. [z] is constrictive fricative, forelingual, apical alveolar, weak, voiced, in final position it is partially devoiced. Articulation. 1. The tip of the tongue is close to the teeth ridge. The narrowing is round, because of the groove in the blade of the tongue. 2. the teeth are very close together. 3. For [z] the vocal cords vibrate when it occurs before vowels or in intervocalic positions, eg. zone, easy. Allophones. Partially devoiced [z] occurs in word final positions, eg. his, lose. |
◊ Exercise 1. Listen to the tape and repeat:
Sound 1 Sound 2
Sue zoo
said Z
sip zip
bus zip
bus buzz
piece peas
price prize
Exercise 2. Compare the phonemes [s] and [ z ]:
[s] – [z]
said – zed hiss – his ceasing – seizing
sip – zip since – sins gracing – grazing
sink – zinc fence - fens loosing – losing
seal – zeal grace – graze coursing – causing
sou – zoo hence – hens dosing – dozing
soot – zoot cease – seize racer – razor
Exercise 3. Read the following words paying special attention to the allophones of the sound [ z ]:
Word initial Word final Word medial [z] before
position position position [θ] and [ð]
zebra is busy is thin
zoo has music was thick
zone was husband has thought
zero does reason does things
zigzag please praised these themes
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