Look through the passage below and mark all the cases of linking in it. Listen to the tape, mark the intonation. Practise reading the passage

Text 6

Read the story through and put one of the words from the box into each gap. Listen and check your answers. Break the passage into sense-groups and mark the intonation. Practise reading the passage aloud.

Text 5

Listen to the passage and write it down, paying attention to the correct punctuation.

Text 4

Listen to the passage. Divide it into sense-groups, mark the stressed words and intonation in each sentence. Practise reading the whole passage aloud.

Text 3

Listen to the letter and mark the stressed words in it. Practise reading the letter phrase by phrase and then read the whole of it aloud.

Text 2

Listen and write in the missing words. Listen again and practise reading the story phrase by phrase, then read the whole of it aloud.

Text 1

_________ first ___________ June_____________-two, _________ French burglar broke_________ house________ Paris.

_________ went _________ living_________ stole two pictures. Then ____________ went __________ kitchen. ________opened _________ saw _________. __________ ate ___________.Next, _________ two __________. __________ both ________. ________ felt

__________ rest___________ asleep. When __________ morning _________ around ______.

Dear Mum and dad,

I’m really sorry, but I’m leaving home. When you read this, I’ll be far away. Don’t try to find me. Martin and I are getting married next Saturday.

I know you’ve never liked Martin. You didn’t want me to go out with him because you said he was just a car salesman and he wasn’t good enough for me. I know that you’ve always wanted the best for me, but Martin is the best for me. I love him very much indeed.

On the fourteenth of January nineteen seventy-eight, Mrs. Brewin was working in her garden. Her cat, Henry, was playing around her. It climbed a tress in the garden and couldn’t get down, so she called the Fire Brigade. While she was waiting for them to arrive, she offered some fish to try to get him down.

. – full stop

, - comma

‘ - apostrophe

- - hyphen

: - colon

You will hear the same passage broken into short sections first and then in longer sentences. Listen and repeat each phrase/sentence with the correct intonation. After that, read the whole passage through.

Word list: drab

Cynthia

to at about off to from at in in

My friend Susie met her husband in a strange way. She was traveling to Eastern Europe by train one summer. For some time she looked _____ the handsome young man sitting opposite her. Finally he smiled ________ her and said ‘Hello’. It was a long trip and they talked _______ a lot of different things. He came ________ Hamburg, and was very interested ______ politics and English. When he got _____ the train in Hamburg, Suzy felt a little sad because she didn’t even know his name. Then she noticed a book on the floor. It had an address, but no name _______ it. She didn’t know if it belonged ______ the handsome German man, but she decided to write _____ the address in the book. After a couple of weeks she got a reply. The following summer he visited her in England, and last year they got married.

Most people’s picture of a typical Englishman is a man in a suit, with an umbrella, a copy of The Times, and a bowler hat. Not everybody knows, however, that this hard, low, round-brimmed hat was invented in the nineteenth century, or that it was made after a pair of British hat makers, Thomas and William Bowler.

The first example of a bowler hat was ordered by a country gentleman, Thomas Coke, who lived in Norfolk. He wanted a strong and practical hat that he could wear when he went shooting.

In America the bowler hat is known as a derby.

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