Read the sentences. Pay attention to the sounds.

1) Wow, Howard! It’s a brown mountain owl! It’s worth about a thousand pounds down in the town.

2) They told the boatman rowing would be too slow. So the postman sold him an old motor mower and he robbed it to the boat.

Set phrases idioms, sayings and proverbs.

When in doubt, leave it out. To make a mountain out of a molehill. To be out and about. To be down and out. Out of sight, out of mind.

Rhymes and tongue twisters.

1) Little mouse, little mouse,

Please, come out of our house.

No, Pussy, - says the mouse,

I won’t leave my little house.

2) Charley Brown had a cow,

Black and white about the brow,

Open the gate and let her out,

Charley Brown’s old cow.

3) Chip-chop, chip-chop,

Chipper Chopper Joe,

One big blow,

Oh! My toe!

UNIT 11. [ә ]

(‘shwa’ – the only sound that has a name)

This is a very important sound in English; though you might actually call it a non-sound. It is fully relaxed and very short. In fact, it is so short that it sometimes hardly exists at all! Remember that “shwa” is only used for unstressed syllables.

1. Practice the sound.

[ә ]

1. Set phrases idioms, sayings and proverbs.

Nature is the best healer. Necessity is the mother of invention. Here today, gone tomorrow. Never put off till tomorrow what you can do today. Never do today what you can get someone else to do tomorrow. An Englishman’s home is his castle.

1. Rhymes and tongue twisters.

1) Rub-a-dub dub,

Three men in a tub.

The butcher, the baker, the candlestick-maker,

They all jumped over a rotten potato!

2) A shoemaker makes shoes without leather,

With four elements all together,

Fire, Water, Earth, Air,

And every customer takes two pair.

UNIT 12. [p] – [b]

Practice the sounds.

[p] [b] Sounds in contrast