Waiting for Templetons

Tessa: What time did you tell Templetons to get here, Martin?

Martin: Any time between 10 and 12.

Tessa: But it's after two! They're terribly late!

Martin: Why didn't you contact United Transport as I told you?

Tessa: Peter Thompson said that Templetons were better.

Martin: Tessa! Peter Thompson's a director of Templetons. Oh! blast it! I've torn my trousers on the radiator.

Tessa: Oh Martin, do take care! ... Hadn't we better telephone?

Martin: I've tried. The telephone's not connected yet.

Tessa: And the water's still cut off. We can't just wait here all afternoon in an empty flat with no water and no telephone.

Martin: How uninviting an empty flat is.

Tessa: And it seems tiny, too, now, doesn't it?

Martin: I'm tempted to take a taxi straight into town and stay the night in a hotel.

Tessa: How extravagant! But what a delightful thought!

3. All Dressed Up like á Dog's Dinner

Sam: Jack, for Pete's sake! Who's that girl all dressed up like a dog's dinner — red hat, red dress, red gloves — ah! but what's this? Blue shoes!

Jack: Take that back, Sam Boyd. Dog's dinner indeed!

Sam: You're quite right! My dog hates raw meat! He'd have ten fits if I gave him a red mess like that for dinner.

Jack: It's her best dress. To impress you, you rude creature! She's sweet, rich, clever — and a good cook!

Sam: Lord save us, the man's mad! Don't say you're in love with the red maiden?

Jack: Yes, Sam. I am. What's more — we're engaged. This time next week we'll be man and wife.

S a m: I did really put my big foot in it, didn't I? All I can say now is — good luck, old man!

Exercise VI.Read the rhymes and learn them.

1. Twinkle, twinkle, little star

How I wonder what you are

Up above the world so high,

Like a diamond in the sky.

2. Hoddley, poddley, puddle and fogs,

Cats are to marry the poodle dogs,

Cats in the blue jackets and dogs in red hats,

What will become of the mice and the rats?

3. Hey, diddle, diddle! The cat and the fiddle,

The cow jumped over the moon,

The little dog laughed

To see such sport,

And the dish ran away with the spoon.

4. Little Miss Muffet, Sat on a tuffet,

Eating her curds and whey.

There came a big spider,

Who sat down beside her

And frightened Miss Muffet away.

5. A tutor who tooted a flute

Tried to tutor two tooters to toot.

Said the two to the tutor

"Is it harder to toot or

To tutor two tooters to toot?"

(C. Wells.)

Exercise VII.Transcribe the proverbs and learn them.

1. A storm in a teacup.

2. Better late than never.

3. When children stay still, they have done ill.

4. Dead as a door nail.

5. Dull as. ditch water.

6. Never say die until you're dead.

7. Between the devil and the deep blue sea.

Exercise VIII.Pronounce the following sentences with aspiration.

1. Ткет ткач ткани на платки Тане.

2. У пенька опять пять опят.

3. Трое трубачей трубили в трубы.

4. Тут-тук-тук, кто там? Почтальон Печкин.

5. От топота копыт пыль по полю летит.

6. Дай девочке дядины подарки.

7. Давай достанем деньги из деревянной шкатулки.

UNIT 14. [k] – [g]

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

1. [k]     2. [g]    
can book because go bag ago
car back become get big agree
саге black breakfast gate dig angry
case break excuse garden frog again
caused. dark pocket grow log against
kind drink second good leg forget
kill lake secret grass rug forgive
kitten like local green flag regular
kitchen make weaker great plug August
coat lock thicker guess drug together
call neck market gun dog tiger
cold music walking game smog longer

3. [k] - [g]

cot — got coat — goat ankle — angle

cave — gave clue — glue crow — grow

cards — guards curl — girl back — bag

cold — gold class — glass cap — gap

could — good leak — league coal — goal

pick — pig lock — log

4. Silent k before n Silent g

know knife gnaw gnat

knock knew gnome sign

knee knight campaign foreign

poignant cognac

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

(a) August; school in August; a language school in August; to go to a language school in August; idea to go to a language school in August; great idea to go to a language school in August; it's a great idea to go to a language school in August.

(b) awake; to keep me awake; coffee to keep me awake; cups of coffee to keep me awake; a couple of cups of coffee to keep me awake; I have a couple of cups of coffee to keep me awake.

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

[k] (a) 1. Ken quite likes Kate. Kate doesn't care for Ken.

2. Ken catches Kate and kisses her quickly.

3. Kate cries, kicks and screams.

4. Ken cures Kate with a quick cup of coffee and a cream cake.

5. To kill a wife with kindness.

6. The king was in his counting house counting out his money.

[g] (b) 1. One of my favourite guessing games is the Bag Game.

2. It's a good game at the beginning to get to know each other.

3. The girlguide is giggling at a glum guardman guarding the gate.

4. A garden is overgrown with grass.

5. Go and teach your grandmother, Gordon.

[k] — [g] (c) 1. Cats keep coming into my garden.

2. Carol's cousin had broken his leg.

3. I've broken a glass in the kitchen.

4. There's a cow in my garden.

5. Cut the grass.

6. This girl has golden curls.

Exercise IV.Read the tongue-twisters and learn them.

1. Three crooked cripples

Went through Cripplegate,

And through Cripplegate

Went three crooked cripples.

2.Three grey geese in a green field grazing.

Grey were the geese and green was the grazing.

3. A canner, exceedingly canny,

One morning remarked to his granny

"A canner can can

Anything that he can.

But a canner can't can a can, can he?"

Exercise V. Complete the following sentences working in pairs.

1. — Can you talk in Cockney to a crowd in Connaught Square?

— Of course I can talk in Cockney to a crowd in Connaught Square.

2. — Can you coat a coffee cake with Cornish clotted cream?

— Of course I can...

3. — Can you quickly kick a crooked Coca-Cola can?

— Of course I can...

4. — Can you catch a cuckoo in a broken wicker cage?

— Of course I can...

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








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