What a lot of nonsense!

Rod wants his coffee strong.

A cup of coffee hot in a proper copper coffee-pot.

Call me at a quarter to four.

It’s all your fault.

Cora adores small talk.

Ex 9. Find 14 words in the puzzle and write them in the correct part of the table. The words are written horizontally or vertically.

Words with [ס]	Words with [ :]

Ex 10. Read the words and circle the one with the different vowel sound. Then listen and check. (A77)

EXAMPLE soap hope sold soup

1. come gone long want

2. what hot most salt

3. drove love woke hole

4. snow low cow show

5. both cloth clothes road

6. word wash boss cost

7. post lost coast rose

Ex 11. Listen to the following sentences, you will hear them twice, once in American English (A), once in British English (B). Write the order A-B or B-A. (A78)

EXAMPLE The coffee’s hot. ______A-B_____

1. The lock’s at the top. ___________

2. The song’s long. ____________

3. Stop the clock. ______________

4. The dog’s gone. ______________

5. He’s often wrong. ____________

Ex 12. Listen to these sentences. Is the accent from Britain or from America? Write B or A. (A93)

EXAMPLE The girl’s first birthday. _A__

1. It’s hard work, of course. ____

2. Are you sure? ____

3. Law and order. ____

4. I walk to work. ____

5. I saw the bird fall. ___

6. He was born on Thursday the thirty-first. ____

7. She taught German. ____

8. I learned to surf in Brazil. ____

9. ‘Caught’ and ‘court’ sound the same in my accent. ____

Introducing word stress

If a word has more than one syllable, you give stress to one of the syllables. To do that, you make it longer, you make it louder and you make it higher. We can show stress with circles: each circle is a syllable and the bigger circle shows which syllable has the stress. For example, Saturday (Ooo).

Ex 13. Write the full words in the correct column, according to the their stress pattern.

Ex 14. Write one word from ex. 13 in each sentence below. The word must have the stress pattern shown. Then say the sentences.

1. I’m going to have a party on _____________ (Ooo).

2. My grandfather is ________________ (Ooo) years old.

3. I often sleep for an hour in the _____________ (ooO).

4. My birthday is on the ______________ (oOo) of March.

5. In Europe, the weather is warm in _____________ (oO).

6. I left school when I was ______________ (ooO).

7. Good night. See you _______________ (oOo).

8. How long is your summer ______________ (Ooo)?

NB! Stress patterns can help you to hear the difference between similar words, for example, numbers ending in –teen or –ty.

Ex 15. Listen and circle the number you hear. (B8)

1. 100 dollars! It only cost 17/70 last year!

2. He was the 14^th/40^th president of my country.

3. The maximum number of people is 15/50.

4. She was born in 1916/1960.

5. He was 13/30 on his last birthday.

6. She’ll be 18/80 in March.

NB! Most two-syllable nouns and adjectives have stress on the first syllable (for example, driver (Oo), famous (Oo)), and most two-syllable verbs have stress on the second syllable (for example, remove (oO), become (oO)). However, there are a number of exceptions to this general rule (machine (oO), happen (Oo)). Some words are both nouns and verbs. For example, record is a noun if you put stress on the first syllable, and a verb if you put stress on the second syllable.

Ex 16. Listen and circle the word with a different stress pattern from the others. (B40)

EXAMPLE money machine mountain message

1. answer agree allow attract

2. middle minute mission mistake

3. compare correct copy collect

4. garden granny guitar grammar

5. complete common careful crazy

6. pronounce provide promise prefer

7. shampoo shoulder shower shopping

8. reason remove receive review

Ex 17. Read the sentences and decide what stress pattern the words in bold have. Then listen, check and repeat. (B41)

EXAMPLE I got my first record as a present when I was eleven.

record - Oo, present - Oo

1. You’ve progressed well this year, but I’d like to see even more progress. (progressed - _________, progress - ___________)

2. We import too much petrol and the country’s export figures are going down. (import - _________, export - ___________)

3. It started as a student protest, but now the army has rebelled against the government. (protest - _______, rebelled - _________)

4. In the desert, there is a big contrast between temperatures in the day and at night. (desert - __________, contrast - __________)

5. These companies produce household objects, such as fridges and washing machines. (produce - _________, objects - _________)

Understanding small talk

Every language has its own ‘throw-away’ words, in English the most popular are ‘I mean’, ‘sort of’, ‘like’, ‘you know’. Listen to this conversation. Notice that the speakers say these words very fast, often in a low voice. (C25).

A: Ugh! This coffee is really horrible!

B: Yeah, I know. Machine coffee, I mean, why do we drink the stuff?

A: It’s sort of like… someone puts the contents of an ashtray in water and ehm… like, heats it up or something, you know…

B: Yeah, that’s what it tastes like, … and … I mean, have you tried the ehm… the tea?

A: Oh, yeah, the tea! That’s even worse!

B: I mean, the plastic cups don’t help, do they?

A: No, I know, … plastic cups!... we like even had champagne in plastic cups, you know, at what’s – her – name’s leaving party…

B: Jenny. Jenny Glen. Yeah, I remember that, last January it was… I kind of liked Jenny. I wonder what she’s doing now…

Ex 18. You will hear four people speaking. What are their favourite ‘throw-away’ words? Write them after the name. (C28)

Frank: ____I mean______________

Debbie: ______________________

Kimberly: _____________________

Greg: ________________________

NB! The same expressions which people use as ‘throw-away’ words do have meaning in other contexts. Listen and notice the difference in pronunciation (C26):

Tell me everything you know. She tells me everything, you know.

‘Blue Mountain’ is a kind of coffee. ‘Blue Mountain’ coffee is kind of nice.

We like to go away at weekends. We like go to the beach or whatever.

I mean the one on the right. I mean, what’s the point of buying one shoe?

Ex 19. Listen to the sentences and say whether the underlined words have meaning or if it is just a ‘throw-away’ word. (C29)

1. I don’t think these are the men you know

2. I’ve taught you everything you know

3. Do you know the place I mean it’s just over there

4. She’s not the one I mean she’s too tall

5. They’re like wild animals

6. This is like Arctic weather

Letters and sounds

Consonants: [∫ – ʒ - t∫ - dʒ]

To make the sound [∫]: The end of your tongue being curved back behind tooth ridge, push the air through gap.

To make the sound [ʒ]: Follow the instructions above, use your voice.

To make the sound [t∫]: Your tongue touches tooth ridge and stops the air. Then the tongue moves behind tooth ridge and releases the air.

To make the sound [dʒ]: Follow the instructions above, use your voice.

Ex.1 Listen and repeat.

[∫ ]

shoe ship ash shirt push

washing machine cash

[ʒ]

television garage Peugeot treasure

casual clothes measuring tape

[t∫]

chair chips watch chicken cheese

March kitchen

[dʒ]

job June jaw jeep village

juice jam jars

Ex.2 Listen and repeat the words paying special attention to sounds [∫ - t∫ - dʒ].

ships – chips

shop – chop

wash – watch

choke – joke

sheep cheap jeep

sherry cherry Jerry

Ex.3 Practise saying the tongue twisters.

She was shaking in her shoes.

She sells sea-shells on the sea-shore and the shells she sells are sea-shells, I’m sure.

His pleasure and joy knew no measure.

Fetch some chalk, Cherry.

Charlie Chesterton chattered in church.

Meet John Jones junior.

A journalist made a journey over Japan.

Ex.4 Do the following crossword puzzle. Each answer contains the sound [t∫] or [dʒ].

ACROSS: 1. Famous English prime minister. 2. We eat bread, butter and … 3. We buy jam in a … 4. You’ll get fat if you eat too much …olate. 5. A game for two people. 6. You can see in the dark with a …ch. 7. This isn’t … a difficult puzzle.

DOWN: 1. A young hen is a … 2. This book belongs to Jock. It’s …’.. book. 3. The dangerous bridge is … outside the village. 4. HRCAE are letters of this word. It means get with your hand. 5. Tell me a j..e. 6. George’s jeep was … than the other jeep.

Ex.5 Complete the conversation using words from the box. (A55)

Ex.6 The speaker made such a mistake in these sentences, write what they meant to say. Listen to the correct and incorrect pairs of sentences. Repeat, making the difference clear. (A56)

EXAMPLE Does she tea Chinese in the school? ____teach Chinese_______

1. I don’t know which air to sit on. __________________

2. Everyone at the match ears when the team scores. ____________

3. I never what chat shows on the TV. _______________

4. The actor on stay joked with the audience. ______________

5. Foxes sometimes come to the farm and cat chickens. ____________

6. Do you want to chain jackets before we go out? ________________

Vowels: [U – U:]

To make the sound [U]: Round your lips a little and put them forward. The back of your tongue goes up together with your lower jaw. It is a short sound.

To make the sound [U:]: Round the lips a little more. Make it a long sound this time.

Ex 7. Listen and repeat the words paying special attention to sounds [U – U:]

look – Luke

pull – pool

full – fool

foot – boot

Ex.8 Practise saying the tongue twisters.

Soon the cool moon will shine on the gloomy pool.

Ruth can’t say boo to a goose.

Mind where you put your foot.

Where can I look for a book?

Ex.9 Complete these sentences with words from the box. The vowel sound is given. Listen, check and repeat (A88).

EXAMPLE

Two things you can __put__[U] on a foot are a shoe and a __boot__[U:].

1. The _______[Λ] after _______[U:] is July.

2. My mother’s other _________[Λ] is my __________[Λ].

3. Brazil _________[Λ] the World _________[Λ] in 2002.

4. Fruit ________[U:] is _________[U] for you.

5. There is a __________[U] _________[U:] once a month.

6. You pronounce __________[U] exactly the same as _________[U].

Ex.10 Circle the word with the different vowel sound.

EXAMPLE foot look blood push

1. soon book boot room

2. rude luck run but

3. shoes does true blue

4. pull full put rule

5. group could would should

6. done move love son

7. south young couple won

NB!Many words which have [j] before [U:] in British English don’t in American English. Compare: news [njU:z] – news [nU:z], tune [tjU:n] - tune [tU:n].

Ex.11 Practise this dialogue. Pay special attention to sounds [U – U:].

Miss Luke: Good afternoon, girls.

Girls: Good afternoon, Miss Luke.

Miss Luke: This afternoon we are going to learn how to cook soup.

Open your books at unit twenty-two.

Prue: Excuse me, Miss Luke.

Miss Luke: Yes, Prue?

Prue: There’s some chewing gum on your shoe.

Miss Luke: Who threw the chewing gum on the floor? Was it you, Prue?

Prue: No, Miss Luke. It was June.

Miss Luke: Who?

Prue: June Cook.

June: It wasn’t me, stupid. It was Sue.

Sue: It was you!

June: It wasn’t me, you, stupid fool.

My mouth’s full of chewing gum. Look, Miss Luke!

Sue: Stop pulling my hair, June. It was you.

June: YOU!

Sue: YOU!

Miss Luke: Excuse me, you are being very rude.

You two nuisances can stay in school this afternoon

instead of going to the swimming pool.