Exercise 10. Video practice exercises

Exercise 7. Video practice exercises.

a) Watch a video about pronunciation tips for long vowel [ɔ:] (vowel_long_4 file).

b) Watch a video about pronunciation tips for short vowel [ʊ] (vowel_short_2 file).

c) Watch a video about pronunciation tips for long and short vowels in contrast [i]-[i:] (vowel_short_1 file).

d) Watch a video about pronunciation tips for short vowels in contrast [e]-[i] (vowel_short_6 file).

f) Watch a video about pronunciation tips for diphthongs [aʊ]-[ǝʊ] (Diphthongs (double vowel sounds) 07 file)

g) Watch a video about pronunciation tips the diphthong [ei] and long vowel [i:] in contrast (Diphthongs (double vowel sounds) 08 file).

Exercise 8. Fricatives and affricates (unit 1_ex_ 8 file)

a) time 00:08 – 01:20

b) time 02:35 – 03:40

c) time 03:42 – 05:00

Exercise 9. Consonants (unit 1_ex_ 9 file)

a) 00:05 – 00:44

b) 00:45 – 01:31

c) 01:32 – 02:46

d) 02:48 – 03:24

e) 03:25 – 03:54

f) 03:56 – 06:36

a) Watch a video about pronunciation tips for consonants [m], [n], [ŋ] (con_other_1 file and con_other_3).

b) Watch a video about pronunciation tips for [j] (con_other_8 file).

c) Watch a video about pronunciation tips for [ð] (con_voiced_6 file).

d) Watch a video about pronunciation tips for [r] (Voiced Consonant Sound 13 - r -file).

e) Watch a video about pronunciation tips for [w] (Voiced Consonant Sound 14 - w - (1) file).

Exercise 11. Pronunciation exercises: pronounce the English tongue twisters and poems. You may use http:www.imtranslator.net

a) A big blue bucket of blue blueberries.

b) Critical cricket critic.

c) If one doctor doctors another doctor, does the doctor who doctors the doctor doctor the doctor the way the doctor he is doctoring doctors? Or does he doctor the way the doctor who doctors doctors?

d) (use a candle!)

Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers

If Peter picked a peck of pickled peppers

Where is the peck of pickled peppers Peter Piper picked?

e) Robert Rowley rolled a round roll around,

A round roll Robert Rowley rolled around;

Where’s the round roll Robert Rowley rolled around?

f) She sells sea shells on the sea shore,

The shells she sells are sea-shells, I’m sure,

For if she sells sea-shells on the sea-shore,

Then I’m sure she sells sea-shore shells.

g) Swan swam over the sea,

Swim, swan, swim;

Swan swam back again,

Well swum, swan!

h) A Dictionary’s where you can look things up

To see if they are really there:

To see if what you breathe is Air,

If what you sit on is Chair,

If what you comb is curly Hair,

If what you drink from is a Cup.

A Dictionary’s where you can look things up

To see if they are really there.

Exercise 12. Pronounce the words from the first paragraph of a report. Then use the text of your own report. You may use http:www.imtranslator.net

The historical analysis of the problem of the development of Information Technologies in some EU countries may help us to improve similar processes in the transportation industry in the Russian Federation.

Among the major tasks of the development of high-speed rail transportation in our country within the Strategy for Developing Rail Transport to 2030 is the following: to develop technical rules and national standards oriented to positive global experience in high-speed railway management and construction. The process of identifying the best national and international practices is known as benchmarking that we may apply to the railway industry in Russia. Some positive experience in the development of Information Technologies of the DLR (UK), the SNCF (France), the Deutsche Bahn (Germany) will be considered further.

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