A Bit of Beef at the Picnic

Happy Birthday

Passports, Please

(Mr and Mrs Tupman are at the airport. They have just got off the plane from Paris.)

О f f i с а 1: Passports, please!

Mr Tupman:! think I've lost the passports, Poppy.

Mrs Tupman: How stupid of you, Peter!. Didn't you put them in your pocket?

Mr Tupman: (emptying his pockets) Here's a pen... a pencil... my pipe... a postcard... an envelope... a stamp... a pin...

Mrs Tupman: Oh, stop taking things put of your pockets. Perhaps you put them in the plastic bag.

Mr Tupman: {emptying the plastic bag) Here's a newspaper... an apple... a pear... a plastic cup... a spoon... some paper plates... a piece of pork pie... a pepper pot...

Mrs Tupman: Oh, stop pulling things out of the plastic bag, Peter. These people are getting impatient.

Mr Tupman: Well, help me, Poppy.

Mrs Tupman: We've lost our passports. Perhaps we dropped them on the plane.

Official: Then let the other passengers pass, please.

Mr Tupman: Poppy, why don't you help? You aren't being very helpful. Put the things in the plastic bag.

Official: Your name, please?

Mr Tupman: Tupman.

Official: Please go upstairs with this policeman, Mr Tupman.

Bob: Hello, Barbara.

Barbara: Hello, Bob. It's my birthday today.

Bob: Oh, yes. Your birthday! Happy birthday, Barbara!

Barbara: Thanks, Bob. Somebody gave me this blouse for my birthday.

Bob: What a beautiful blouse! It's got brown and blue butterflies on it.

Barbara: And big black buttons.

Bob: Did Ruby buy it for you?

Barbara: Yes. And my brother gave we a hairbrush and a book about baby birds.

Bob: I didn't remember your birthday, Barbara, I'm terribly sorry.

Barbara: Well, you can buy me a big bottle of perfume, Bob!

Bob: I've got a better idea. We'll get into a cab and go to a pub, and I'll buy you a bottle of beer!

3. Brandy in the Baby's Bottle!

{Telephone rings.) Bob: Bob Batterby.

В a b s: Oh Bob, this is Babs. I'm baby-sitting for Betty and my brother Bill. I'm sorry to bother you but...

Bob: What's the trouble? No problem's too big when Bob's on the job!

В a b s: Oh stop being stupid. Bob. It's baby. I put her on the balcony on a blanket with a biscuit to bite on and I think a bit of biscuit... She can't breathe.

Bob: Bang her on the back, between the shoulder blades.

В a b s: I've banged her till she's black and blue.

Bob: Try putting a bit of brandy in her bottle.

В a b s: Brandy in the baby's bottle! Oh Bob!

Bob: Sorry, Babs. Sounds bad. I'd better bicycle over. Be with you before you can say "bread and butter".

Babs: Bless you, Bob. Bye-bye. Be quick.

Paul: Picnics! I detest picnics!

Kate: Paul, do stop grumbling and get the basket out of the car. We couldn't stay indoors today. It's beautiful!

Paul: I do like a proper Sunday dinner. What I like is roast pork with apple sauce and gravy, peas and carrots and cabbage, and treacle tart for pudding...

Kate: Here's a perfect spot! Spread the rug behind this bush. Good. Look, we've got brown bread and butter and pâté and cold chicken...

Paul: Blast! I'm sitting on an ant's nest! Picnics!

Kate: And the salad's got tomatoes, peppers, lettuce, cucumber, beetroot...

Paul: Rabbit food! Oh, for a plate of boiled beef and dumplings!

Kate: Oh dear! Paul, I do believe your bit of beef is coming this way! Isn't that a bull?

Exercise VI. Read the rhymes and learn them.

1. Apples, peaches, pears and plums

Tell me when your birthday comes.

2. One potato, two potatoes,

Three potatoes, four,

Five potatoes, six potatoes,

Seven potatoes more.

3. Two little sausages

Frying in a pan,

One went pop

And the other went bam!

4. Betty Batter bought some butter

But she said, "My butter's bitter.

If I put it in my batter,

It will make my batter bitter.

If I buy some better butter,

It'll make my batter better."

So she bought some better butter

And it made her batter better.

Exercise VII. Transcribe the proverbs and learn them.

1. Business before pleasure.

2. Betwixt and between.

3. Better be alone than in bad company.

4. Barking dogs seldom bite.

5. Praise is not pudding.

6. Practise what you preach.

Exercise VIII. Pronounce the following sentences with aspiration.

1. Пошла Поля полоть в поле.

2. Поля поле поливает, полет и перепалывает.

3. Папа Петру пирожок пек.

4. Петр Петрович Перепелович продал телку купил перепелку.

5. В пруду у Поликарпа плавали пять карпов.

6. У бабушки Богдана болит бок.

7. Борис, будешь банан?

8. Бей в барабаны, бей в барабаны быстрей.

UNIT 13. [t] - [d]

Exercise I. Read the following words paying special attention to correct pronunciation.

ı. [t]			2. [d]
time	what	between	do	read	rider
town	late	water	day	road	ladder
torn	night	after	dog	side	already
taxi	port	writer	dreary	old	ready
telephone	don't	empty	drab	head	Monday
trousers	liked	stool	drive	add	holiday
tell	hoped	storm	date	afraid	idea
twelve	asked	temptation	daughter	loaded	lady
twenty	passed	Anthony	dinner	acted	body
Theresa	bite	Chatham	dirty	waited	study
Thames	late	Betty	danger	lived	under

3. [t]-[d]

tie — die trunk — drunk time — dime set — said

mate — made ton — done mat — mad. bet — bed

heart — hard late — laid coat — code two — do torn — dawn

4. Silent t Silent d

christen	chestnut	han d some
listen	Christmas	han d kerchief
glisten	exactly	han d cuff
castle	soften	gran d mother
wrestle	often	gran d father
whistle	mustn't	We d nesday
cabaret	ballet
	croquet

Exercise II. Read the following sense-groups, mind the rhythm and intonation.

(a) eight; to eight; a quarter to eight; till a quarter to eight; arrive till a quarter to eight; won't arrive till a quarter to eight; the train won't arrive till a quarter to eight.

b) concert; to the concert; straight to the concert; taxi straight to the concert; take a taxi straight to the concert; you'd better take a taxi straight to the concert.

Exercise III. Transcribe and intone the following sentences. Practise reading them in pairs.

[t] (a) 1. On the tip of your tongue.

2. Temptations are like tramps, let one in and he returns with his friends.

3. To fall between two stools.

4. Can he take out two books or ten books?

5. Don't take it to heart.

[d] (b) 1. Dan's Dad is a good driver.

2. Deidre is the dowdy daughter of the Duke of Dundas.

3. Deidre is dreaming a dreadful dream.

4. She dreams of her dear old darling Daddy, held deep down in a dark, dank, dirty dungeon, doomed to die on her wedding day.

[t] — [d] (c) 1. David and Daniel are two terrible twins.

2. Diana brought a tea tray with toasts, tarts and a pot of hot strong tea to tempt the twins.

3. Don't answer the telephone until I tell you to, Dick.

4. If at first you don't succeed, try, try and try again.

5. These trousers are tight. Why don't you try them, Dave?

6. It was at a minute or two to two that Dick Dandy was shot in the cabaret.

Exercise IV. Read the rhymes and learn them.

1. When a twister twisting would twist a twist,

For twisting a twist three twists he will twist,

But if one of the twists untwists from the twist,

The twist untwisting untwists the twist.

2. Never trouble trouble

Till trouble troubles you,

It only doubles trouble

And troubles others too.

3. If a doctor is doctoring a doctor, does the doctor doing the doctoring have to doctor the doctor the way the doctor being doctored wants to be doctored or does the doctor doctor the way he usually doctors?

Exercise V. Read the dialogues, mark the stresses and tunes. Learn them. Act out the dialogues.

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