Exercise 4. Listen to the words. Underline the word you hear

Exercise 1. Read the following words paying special attention to correct pronunciation.

[i:] -niece, peace, teeth, seat, feet, heat, beat, knees, peas, teas, seed, feed, heed, bead, knee, pea, tea, see, fee, he, be.

[ı] -did, bid, lid, kid, pill, nib, rib, rip, nip, pit, kit, lit, it.

[i:]-[ı]:peel-pill, heel-hill, bean-bin, teen-tin, lead-lid, deed-did, read-rid, peak-pick, leak-lick, cheap-chip, eat-it, feet-fit, seat-sit, beat-bit.

Exercise 2. Listen to the words and then repeat them. Underline the word in each group that does not contain vowel [i:].

Example: keep lean fit piece

1.bead great leave tea

2.eight piece believe niece

3.scene women these even

4.need been sleep thirteen

5.police thief machine vision

6.pretty wheat sweet cream

7.people bread deal east

8.tin teen steam receive

9.leave live leaf lease

10.steep Steve easy still

Exercise 3. Listen to the words. Underline the number of the word with the vowel [ı].

Example: You hear mitt meat meat

You underline 1 2 3

1. 1 2 3

2. 1 2 3

3. 1 2 3

4. 1 2 3

5. 1 2 3

6. 1 2 3

7. 1 2 3

8. 1 2 3

9. 1 2 3

10. 1 2 3

Example: meat mitt

1. field filled

2. bean bin

3. neat knit

4. deal dill

5. beat bit

6. team Tim

7. sleep slip

8. green grin

9. heel hill

10. week wick

Exercise 5. Listen to the dialogue. Circle all the words with [i:]. Underline all the words with [ı].

Jim: Hi, Tina! Do you have a minute?

Tina: Yes, Jim. What is it?

Jim: My sister is in the city on business. We will eat dinner out tonight. Can you recommend a place to eat?

Tina: There is a fine seafood place on Fifth Street. The fish is fresh, and the shrimp is great. But it isn’t cheap!

Jim: That’s OK. It will be “feast today, famine tomorrow”! I’ll just have to eat beans the rest of the week!

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