I. Study Substitution Tables No. 1-4 and compose as many sentences as you can

II. a) Read aloud:

speed, loaf, loom, reach, rose, fill, coal, aim, cube, weave, faint, steam, tool, freeze, mutton, crystal, tense, shoot, trainer, coast, raze, float, beach, least, boot, fee, rein, author, veil;

a merry song, a big boat, a simple riddle, a little star, a black bag, an old goat, a good cook, a fat cock, a good accent, an old oak, a good tool.

b) Concentrate on the rhythm, sentence stress, weak forms of the pronouns and the low falling tone:

His → mother is _\ill. Her → cousin is _\right. My → sister is _\in. His → brother is _\out. The → man is _\wrong. His → wife is _\out. The → man is _\bad. The → woman is _\good. The → girl is _\clever. His → daughter is _\pretty.

III. a) Write five words with each of the following digraphs: oo, ее, ea, oa. b) Copy out in columns the words with the digraphs from your book on home reading.

IV. Write the plural form of the following nouns. Transcribe them:

college, writer, family, wife, child, mouse, parrot, house, bird, man, goose, woman, leaf, roof, day, son-in-law, turkey, swine, box, dish, sheep.

V. Before you start working at the text practise the sounds in the following words and word combinations:

1. [i] - is, in, visit, still, pity;

[e] - Betty, Benny, well, better, bed, yet, then;

[{] - matter, bad, have, glad, Saturday, Sandford;

[зU] - oh, no, so, old, home, cold;

[Á] - doctor, hospital, sorry, long.

2. a) Alveolars replaced by dentals: in Ù the hospital; in Ù the park.

b) No glottal stop: Is Doctor Sandford Ù in? She Ù is Ù in the park. She Ù is Ù always glad; is not Ù at home yet.

c) Loss of plosion: bad Ù cold, glad Ù to see you.

VI. a) Listen to the recording of the dialogue "A Visit". Mark the stresses and tunes. b) Practise the text for test reading. Listen to it very carefully until you can say it in exactly the same way. c) Memorize the dialogue and dramatize it.

VII. a) Read the following special questions. Concentrate on the intonation. Observe the weak forms of the pronouns and the verb to be:

B) Change the special question into general ones and answer them as in the model. Work in pairs.

Model: Why is he in bed?

Is he in bed?

Yes, he is.

VIII. Answer the following questions:

1. Is Doctor Sandford in? 2. Where is he? 3. Is Mrs. Sandford at home? 4. Is Mrs. Sandford in the park with Benny? 5. She isn't in the garden, is she? 6. Old Mrs. Sandford isn't ill, is she? 7. Is she in bed? 8. She is better today, isn't she? 9. Is Mr. Sandford at home after four on Saturday? 10. Is he at home after four or at half past four on Saturday?

IX. a) Complete the following general questions to make them alternative.

Model: → Is he _/busy? - → Is he _/busy | or _\free?

1. Are they in the garden...? 2. Is your sister at the Institute...? 3. Is Doctor Sandford at the hospital...? 4. Is his wife in the park...? 5. Is the exercise easy...? 6. Is Betty nineteen...? 7. Is the hall big...? 8. Are you free on Saturday...? 9. Are these lessons difficult...? 10. Is this sentence long...?

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