Exercise 2. Listen to the words. Underline the word you hear

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

Exercise 5. Read the following phrases and sentences.

Exercise 4. Read the following sense-groups.

Exercise 3. Read the rhymes and learn them.

1. Grasshopper, Grasshopper,

Please, will you stop?

And show me how high

A grasshopper can hop.

Oh, no, I’m in haste.

I must hop out to shop.

Hoppety, hoppety,

hoppety, hop.

2. Tommy Trot, a man of law,

Sold his bed and lay upon straw,

Sold the straw and slept on grass,

To buy his wife a looking-glass.

1. purpose; serve no purpose; the work will serve no purpose.

2. a girl; a circus girl; Pearl is a circus girl; Pearl is a circus girl who works; Pearl is a circus girl who works with horses.

3.birthday; first birthday; thirty-first birthday; pearls for her thirty-first birthday; a circlet of pearls for her thirty-first birthday; a fur and a circlet of pearls for her thirty-first birthday; an earl gave Pearl a fur and a circlet of pearls for her thirty-first birthday.

1. turn it off

2. heard the words

3. slow as a turtle

4. left work early

5. The early bird catches the worm.

6. The servant served dessert.

7. The girl saw the circus first.

Unit 4 [ʌ]-[α:]

[ʌ] -hug, tub, cub, double, done, none, fun, run, plum, hum, some, come, cut, but, up, up, us, fuss, luck, duck, hut, shut, cup, must, cuff.

[α:] -far, arm, last, fast, farm, are, bar, hard, class, carpet, card, car, par, barn, part, party, darn, mar, star, large, tart, smart, starve, scar, spar, carve, art, cart, charge, palm, calm, mark.

[ʌ]-[α:] -mother-father, shut-sharp, up-harp, cup-carp, hum-harm, cuff-carve, drum-drama, hut-heart, fun-farm, bun-barn, lust-last, cut-cart, back-bark, duck-dark.

Example: luck hot

1.cut cot

2.stuck stock

3.come calm

4.wonder wander

5.color collar

6.nut not

7.bum bomb

8.pup pop

9.fund fond

10.shut shot

Exercise 3. Listen to the words. Underline the one word in each group that is not pronounced with [ʌ].

Example: once lovely alone funny

1.something wonder ugly open

2.trouble come locker once

3.color cups dozen collar

4.peanut muddy modern bunny

5.stood stuff stump stuck

6.lucky brother just lock

7.Monday month Tuesday Sunday

8.comb coming cutting country

9.cover over oven other

10.rust must rot nothing

Exercise 4. Listen to the dialogue. Then work with the partner. Underline the words pronounced with the wovel [ʌ]. Practice reading the dialogue together.

Gus: Hi, Justine! How’s my fun-lovingcousin?

Justine: Very worried. I just had a run of tough luck.

Gus: Why, what’s up?

Justine: My bus got stuck in the mud, and I lost some money. I should carry something for luck!

Gus: Yes. Here’s some other advice. Never walk under ladders. And run from black cats. They’re nothing but trouble.

Justine: Oh, Gus. You must be a nut! Do you really believe such mumbo jumbo?

Gus: Don’t make fun, Justine. Customs come from many countries. You must know some others!

Justine: Well, the number 13 is unlucky. And a blister on the tongue means someone is lying!

Gus: Right! But you can have good luck, too. Discover a four-leaf clover or find bubbles in your coffee cup and you’ll get a sum of money.

Justine: Ok, Gus. Maybe I’ll have some luck this month. Knock on wood!

Exercise 5. Read the proverbs and learn them.

1. Winter’s thunder is summer’s wonder.

2. Don’t trouble trouble until trouble troubles you.

3. Every country has it customs.

4. Well begun is half done.

5. What’s done cannot be undone.

6. Well done, soon done.

7. Grasp all, lose all.

Unit 5 [ʊ]-[u:]

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