English For Today chapter 17: Are You Listening-2
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Textbook (verbatim transcription): Are You Listening-2
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Printed page 53
Lesson 17 Are You Listening?-2
After completing the lesson students will be able to
- recognise English sounds
- recognise word stress and stress on words in sentences
- recognise intonation in sentences
- use English sounds appropriately
- use proper intonation in sentences
- read aloud texts with proper pronunciation, stress and intonation
A. Read the following poem out loud. Be careful about how you pronounce each word, as the spellings and sounds can be quite tricky!
The Chaos
I take it you already know Of tough and bough and cough and dough?
Others may stumble, but not you On hiccough, thorough, slough and through?
Beware of heard, a dreadful word That looks like beard and sounds like bird.
And dead: it’s said like bed, not bead -- For goodness’ sake, don’t call it ‘deed’!
Watch out for meat and great and threat, They rhyme with suite and straight and debt.
A moth is not the moth in mother, Nor both in bother, broth, or brother.
And here is not a match for there, Nor dear and fear for bear and pear. And then there’s dose and rose and lose - Just look them up -- and goose and choose. A dreadful language? Why, sakes alive! I’d learned to speak it when I was five.
And yet, to write it, the more I tried, I hadn’t learned it at fifty-five.
Gerard Nolst Trenité (Abridged)
Printed page 54
A1. Underline the words in the poem which have the same letter combinations in their spelling, but different pronunciation. Practice saying them with a friend.
A2. The words “alive”, “five”, and “write” from the poem have the same vowel sound. Now, read and listen to some other words that have the same sound as these.
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Description: A figure is being lifted up on the shoulders of another, with a tree behind them.
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Description: A boy with short hair is rubbing his eye with his hand.
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Description: A rolling pin lying on its side.
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Description: A branch with several roses in bloom and leaves.
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Description: A person riding a bicycle.
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Description: A car seen from the side with a driver inside.
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Description: Clouds against the sky.
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Description: A bird with its wings spread, flying.
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Description: A smiling girl holding a ball.
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Description: A hanging lamp with light rays shining downward.
| try | cry |
|---|---|
| ice-cream | nice |
| ride | drive |
| sky | fly |
| child | light |
Printed page 55
A3. Read the sentences below and choose the right words from the list of words in the box to fill in the blanks.
nine time fine five ride shore bicycle night tide rise
Mike is a ______ young accountant. He works from ______ to ______ in a government office. In his free ______he loves to _____ his ______ along the sea _______. He often comes to the sea beach at ______. He loves to watch the moon _______ in the sky and the _______ come in.
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Description: A man rides a bicycle along a road beside the sea, with waves and clouds in the sky.
A4. Read the sentences in the passage above loudly. Pay careful attention to the vowel sounds.
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