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Rhymes and tongue twisters.
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1) Kris Kringle carefully crunched on candy canes.
2) “K” was a kitten,
That jumped at a cork,
And learned to eat mice
Without plate, knife or fork.
3) Georgie Porgie, pudding and pie,
Kissed the girls and made them cry.
When the boys came out to play,
Georgie Porgie ran away.
4) Go to bed, Tom.
Go to bed, Tom!
Tired or not, Tom,
Go to bed, Tom.
5) Three grey geese
In a green field grazing,
Grey were the geese
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 | 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 |
- Read the sentences. Pay attention to the sounds.
1) I found this funny fox cub in the forest on Friday afternoon! It’s fantastic!
2) I’ve had an invitation from the University of Vladivostok to give a survey of my own creative verse. How marvelous! 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.
- Rhymes and tongue twisters.
1) Four fat friars fanning fainting flies;
Five frippy Frenchmen foolishly fishing for flies.
2) Which witch wished which wicked wish?
3) How much wood would a wood-chuck chuck
If a wood-chuck could chuck wood?
4) We wonder whether the weather will weather the weather
Or whether the weather the wether will kill.
5) While we were walking, we were watching window washers wash
Washington’s windows with warm washing water.
UNIT 16. [s] – [z]
- Practice the sounds.
[s] [z] Sounds in contrast
| son | yes | zoo | hands | sip – zip | grace – graze |
| sin | miss | zebra | leaves | seal – zeal | close¹ – close² |
| seem | glass | zoology | exams | lacy – lazy | this – these |
| soft | most | crazy | boxes | fussy – fuzzy | bus – bars |
| skin | looks | puzzle | dresses | rice – rise | course – cause |
| slow | wants | horizon | watches | loose – lose | niece – knees |
| sweet | nice | was | exist | race – raise | peace – peas |
| sister | bicycle | his | exhaust | advice – advise | post – posed |
| serious | science | days | revise | once – ones | face – phase |
| (close¹ – áëèçêèé, çàêðûòûé; close² – êîíåö, çàâåðøåíèå) |
- Read the sentences. Pay attention to the sounds.
1) Temperatures are expected to fall to minus six degrees in the south. Northern areas will have severe frost, with snow on the hills. It may also snow near the south coast. Roads will be icy – drive slowly, and don’t get too close to other cars.
2) I’m going crazy. One of those miserable Zeno boys, two houses down, plays his transistor as if he was far away as Mars.
- Set phrases, idioms, sayings and proverbs.
Sickness in the body brings sadness to the mind. The end justifies the means. One swallow doesn’t make a summer. It’s a silly goose that comes to a fox’s sermon. Rats desert a sinking ship. If wishes were horses, then beggars would ride. Boys will be boys.
- Rhymes and tongue twisters.
1) Six sportsmen shooting snips;
Seven Severn salmon swallowing shrimps.
2) A wise old owl sat in an oak,
The more he heard, the less he spoke;
The less he spoke, the more he heard;
Why aren’t we all like that wise old bird?
3) The funniest man that I’ve met
Keeps a very large rock as a pet.
It’s as quiet as a mouse
Makes no mess in the house
And he never pays bills to the vet.
4) Swan swam over the sea,
Swim, swan, swim!
Swan swam back again,
Well swum, swan!
5) She sells seashells on the seashore.
The shells she sells are seashells, I’m sure.
UNIT 17. [t∫ ] – [dç]
- Practice the sounds
[t∫ ] [dç] Sounds in contrast
| chips | much | joy | gently | chin – gin | chump – jump |
| chop | switch | joke | major | cheer – jeer | chunk – junk |
| cheap | lunch | join | bridge | choke – joke | choose – juice |
| chips | branch | jump | subject | chain – Jane | march – Marge |
| chain | watch | jeans | edge | cheap – jeep | larch – large |
| change | teacher | June | village | chilly – Jilly | rich – ridge |
| choose | kitchen | July | cottage | chug – jug | breach – bridge |
| cheese | butcher | judge | soldier | cherry – jerry | search – surge |
| charity | future | general | register | chest – jest | H – age |
- Read the sentences. Pay attention to the sounds.
1) Life is a rich adventure and largely a question of chance. You don’t choose your future as you choose a chocolate or a piece of cheese.
2) I was on the bridge at the edge of the village. I was just adjusting the engine when this soldier jumped out of the hedge.
- Set phrases, idioms, sayings and proverbs.
Catch as catch can. Children are poor men’s riches. Don’t count your chicken before they’re hatched. You scratch my back, I’ll scratch yours. Charity begins at home.
- Rhymes and tongue twisters.
1) Chip-chop, chip-chop, Chipper Chopper Joe.
2) Just imagine an imaginary menagerie manager imagining managing an imaginary menagerie.
3) Jack, be nimble,
Jack, be quick,
Jack, jump over
The candlestick.
4) Jumping this way, jumping that,
Jumping gently like a cat
Jumping sideways, jumping tall,
Jumping quickly all day long.
UNIT 18. [∫ ] – [ç]
- Practice the sounds
[∫ ] [ç] Sounds in contrast
| show | insure | pleasure | usual | [∫ ] – [t∫ ] | [s] – [∫ ] |
| sheep | assure | measure | usually | ships – chips | sea – she |
| shame | pressure | leisure | decision | sheep – cheap | Sue – shoe |
| shore | machine | treasure | television | sherry – cherry | sip – ship |
| share | special | garage | revision | shop – chop | sock – shock |
| shell | species | prestige | occasion | shoes – choose | seat – sheet |
| splash | ancient | beige | invasion | shin – chin | puss – push |
| short | ocean | casual | confusion | cash – catch | sort – short |
| sugar | moustache | visual | exclusion | wash – watch | person – Persian |
- Read the sentences. Pay attention to the sounds.
1) Shh, don’t shout. I’m sure I said “sheep”. She’s here in the shed. Isn’t she sweet? She was washed up on the shore at Shale Marsh.
2) Oh how many occasions have you told me that television was an intrusion into privacy of the house, that it destroyed the pleasures of conversation that people no longer know how to make use of their leisure?
- Set phrases, idioms, sayings and proverbs.
Slow but sure. Ship to shore communication. Confusion worse confounded. That man is richest whose pleasures are the cheapest.
- Rhymes and tongue twisters.
1) Silly Sally swiftly shooed seven silly sheep.
The seven silly sheep Silly Sally shooed shilly-shallied south.
These sheep shouldn’t sleep in a shack;
Sheep should sleep in a shed.
2) She sells sea-shells on the seashore.
The shells that she sells are seashore shells I’m sure.
For if she sells sea-shells on the seashore
Then I’m sure she sells seashore shells.
3) Red sky at night
Sailor’s delight.
Red sky in the morning
Sailor’s warning.
UNIT 19. [θ ] – [ð ]
- Practice the sounds
[θ ] [ð ] Sounds in contrast
| thin | both | then | another | [s] – [θ ] | [f] – [θ ] |
| think | bath | this | weather | sick – thick | free – three |
| thing | month | that | together | sink – think | first – thirst |
| thank | length | these | clothes | seem – theme | Fred – thread |
| thumb | north | there | either | sing – thing | fin – thin |
| three | fifth | though | with | pass – path | fought – thought |
| throw | sixth | father | bathe | mouse – mouth | half – hearth |
| throat | healthy | mother | breathe | moss – moth | roof – Ruth |
| theatre | wealthy | those | smooth | worse - worth | deaf – death |
- Read the sentences. Pay attention to the sounds.
1) I’m going to be an Olympic athlete. I may be thin but Mr. Smith says I’ve got the strength of three. I’ll throw this thing the length of the path.
2) There are three brothers. These are their father and mother. This is their other brother.
3) The third Thursday of this month is the sixteenth. It’s my birthday on Thursday. My thirteenth birthday.
- Set phrases, idioms, sayings and proverbs.
Truth and roses have thorns. Set a thief to catch a thief. Health is above wealth. They are as thick as thieves. If a thing’s worth doing, it’s worth doing well. He that speaks, sows, and he that holds his piece, gathers.
- Rhymes and tongue twisters.
1) A thatcher of Thatchwood went to thatchet a-thatching;
Did a thatcher of Thatchwood go to thatchet a-thatching?
If a thatcher of Thatchwood went to thatchet a-thatching,
Where’s the thatching the thatcher of Thatchwood has thatched?
2) I can think of six thin things, six thin things, can you?
Yes, I can think of six thin things and of six thick things, too.
3) “This” is used for one thing near,
“That” means one thing over there,
“These” and “those” mean two or more,
“Those” are far and “these” are near.
4) Mother, father, sister, brother,
Hand in hand with one another.
5) Set a thief to catch a thief.
UNIT 20. [h]
- Practice the sounds.
[h] silent [h] Sounds in contrast
| his | hoop | whole | when | hand – and |
| hip | hate | perhaps | where | hall – all |
| hop | home | behave | hour | here – ear |
| heap | heavy | unhappy | honest | high – eye |
| heat | hammer | inhuman | vehicle | heart – art |
| hill | house | upheld | rhyme | harm – arm |
| ham | who | molehill | forehead | hill – ill |
| hall | whom | household | shepherd | hold – old |
| hut | whose | anyhow | exhibition | hair – air |
- Read the sentences. Pay attention to the sounds.
1) He was hit by an express train. It was on the crossing just behind the horse.
2) Hello, Hanna. Have you heard about Hilda and Harry? They’re on their honeymoon in Hawaii.
3) My husband left his umbrella in the hall. The handle got hooked round my ankle, and I fell over. My ankle hurt so much, I could hardly get up.
- Set phrases, idioms, sayings and proverbs.
Cold hand, warm heart. Head over heels in love. Heaven helps him who helps himself. He that has ears to hear, let him hear. He laughs best who laughs last. Come hell or high water.
- Rhymes and tongue twisters.
1) My heart in the Highlands, my heart is not here,
My heart in the Highlands a-chasing the deer,
A-chasing the wild deer, and following the roe –
My heart in the Highlands, wherever I go.
2) Peter, Peter, Pumpkin Eater,
Had a wife and couldn’t keep her.
He put her in a pumpkin shell,
And there he kept her very well.
UNIT 21. [l] – [r]
- Practice the sounds.
[l] [r] Sounds in contrast
| lamb | slip | rat | true | lip – rip | glue – grew |
| lamp | slot | rap | grew | led – red | clue – crew |
| leg | silent | ram | Greek | lap – wrap | clap – crap |
| life | element | rip | ground | lane – rain | cloud – crowd |
| love | eleven | red | bread | light – right | blush – brush |
| look | English | rest | drift | law – raw | bloke – broke |
| lots | build | rain | tree | lead – read | blink – brink |
| lord | all | reach | agree | list – wrist | belly – berry |
| Loud | pool | rather | foreign | laugh – rough | alive – arrive |
- Read the sentences. Pay attention to the sounds.
1) Ladies and gentlemen, on your left you will see Lumley Castle. This belongs to Lord and Lady Lumley, who live here with their family. All the land on the left belongs to the Lumleys.
2) Do you really like living in a lighthouse all alone? I absolutely love living in a lighthouse all alone.
3) My rabbit’s an Arabian rabbit. They’re very rare. When he’s angry he races round and round his rabbit run. And if he’s in a real rage he rushes on to the roof and roars.
4) Strawberries, raspberries and red-currants with real cream are really very refreshing.
- Set phrases, idioms, sayings and proverbs.
Every cloud has a silver lining. Let sleeping dogs lie. Live and let live. Like father, like son. Little things please little minds. Truth is stranger than fiction. When angry, count to a hundred.
- Rhymes and tongue twisters.
1) Robert Rowley rolled a round roll round
A round roll Robert Rowley rolled round
Where rolled the round roll
Robert Rowley rolled round?
2) Ruby Rugby’s brother
Bought and brought
Her back some rubber
Baby-buggy bumpers.
UNIT 22. [n] – [ŋ ] – [m]
- Practice the sounds.
[n] [ŋ ] [m] Sounds in contrast
| no | sing | bang | song | man | ban – bang |
| nose | ring | hang | wrong | marry | kin – king |
| night | bring | rang | long | mother | Ran – rang |
| knife | wing | sang | belong | home | Ron – wrong |
| wind | spring | sank | monk | animal | run – rung |
| connect | sitting | angle | conquer | family | sin – sing |
| corn | getting | ankle | monkey | farm | sun – sung |
| horn | ink | anxious | young | harm | thin – thing |
| gown | pink | length | tongue | dream | ton – tongue |
- Read the sentences. Pay attention to the sounds.
1) This King’s Kingdom was far-flung, stretching along the banks of every winding river, spreading into all the angles of the world.
2) There were two monks ringing a thinking bell, singing a sad lingering song in a strange tongue no longer known among the younger subjects of the far flung kingdom.
3) Britain has won the European Golden Song Contest, for the ninth time. The winning song is “Bells are Ringing”, sung by Kay King. Last year’s winners, Sweden, came second. Their new song is called “Bing, Bang, Bong”.
- Set phrases, idioms, sayings and proverbs.
A friend in need is a friend indeed. Nothing ventured, nothing gained. Don’t make a mountain out of a molehill. A bad beginning makes a bad ending. The chain is no stronger than its weakest link. Extremes meet. Men make houses, women make homes.
- Rhymes and tongue twisters.
1) Sing, sing, what shall I sing?
The cat’s run away with the pudding string!
Do, do, what shall I do?
The cat’s run away with the pudding, too!
2) As I was getting along, along, along,
And singing a comical song, song, song,
The lane that I went was long, long, long,
And the song that I sang was long, long, long,
And so I went singing a song.
3) Nine nice night nurses nursing nicely.
4) My dame hath a lame tame crane,
My dame hath a crane that is lame.
5) Here am I,
Little Jumping Joan;
When nobody’s with me
I’m all alone.