At an Accommodation Agency

Mr Mason: Good morning. I want an apartment in central London.

Manager: Certainly, sir. How much rent did you want to pay?

Mr Mason: No more than $27 a month.

Manager: $27 a month? We don't often have apartments as inexpensive as that. We have one apartment for $29 a month in Northend Avenue. It's down near the station.

Mr M a s о n: Is it furnished?

Manager: No, It's unfurnished. The kitchen has no oven. It's forbidden to use the garden. No friends in the apartment after eleven in the evening. No noise and no television after 11.15. No...

Mr Mason: No thank you! I want an apartment, not a prison!

2. Mum's Crumpets

Jim: Mum, may Tom Mitcham come home with we for tea\ tomorrow?

Mrs S m i t h: Of course, Jim. Have I met Tom before?

Jim: You met him in the summer. He's very small and smart.

Mrs Smith: Oh yes. I remember Tom. Does his family come from Cambridge?

J i m: Yes. Oh, Mum! Will you make some home-made crumpets tomorrow?

Mrs Smith: Mm... maybe. If I have time.

J i m: I told Tom about your crumpets, Mum. That's why he's coming for tea tomorrow!

Exercise VI.Read the rhymes and learn them.

1. Needles and pins, needles and pins,

When a man marries, his troubles begin.

2. Tom, Tom, the piper's son,

Stole a pig, and away he run,

The pig was eat[2],

And Tom was beat.

And Tom ran crying down the street.

3. The man in the moon 4. Taffy was a Welshman, Came down too soon, Taffy was a sham,

And asked his way to Norwich, Taffy came to my house

He went by the south And stole a leg of lamb.

And burnt his mouth With supping cold plum porridge.

5. Little Johnny Morgan, Gentleman of Wales, Came riding on a nanny goat, Selling off pigs' tails.

Exercise VII.Transcribe the proverbs and learn them.

1. One man, no man.

2. Many men, many minds.

3. To make a mountain out of a molehill.

4. To make both ends meet.

5. To find a mare's nest.

6. Money is a good servant but a bad master.

7. Money often unmakes the men who make it.

8. Money begets money.

UNIT 16. [n] - [ŋ]

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

3. [n]- [ŋ] [ŋk] - [ŋ] [ŋg]- [ŋ]

sin — sing sink — sing longer — long

thin — thing think — thing stronger — strong

kin — king wink — wing hungry — hung

win — wing link — long finger — thing

ran -— rang rink — ring younger — young

son — song ban — bang gone — gong

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

(a) songs; spring songs; singing spring songs; birds singing spring songs; listening to birds singing spring songs; like listening to birds singing spring songs; nothing like listening to birds singing spring songs; there is nothing like listening to birds singing spring songs.

(b) hungry; is hungry; Ben is .angry; Ben is angry when he is hungry.

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

[ŋ] (a) 1. Everything is going wrong.

2. A strong young monk is beating a hanging gong.

3. English rankers marching along singing a rousing drinking song.

4. Good evening. My guest tonight is the young singer Kay King.

5. Kay King was recording a song called "Bells Are Ringing."

[n] b) 1. No nonsense now.

2. Nick wants to watch television at ten to seven.

3. Ned wants to watch the nine o'clock news.

4. And now here are the main points of the news again.

[n] — [ŋ] (c) 1. In the north there'll be rain and snow in the morning.

2. Central districts will have rain and snow showers with a little sun.

3. Anything is better than going on doing nothing,

4. No one likes Franklin for saying the wrong things.

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

1. Oh, swing the king and swing the queen,

Oh, swing them round and round the green.

2. Engine, engine number nine,

Running on Chicago Line,

If it's polished, it will shine,

Engine, engine number nine.

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