B) Respond to the negative sentences of your fellow-student as in the model. Use contracted forms in speech

Model: I can't write Exercise Three.

You needn't do it now.

II. a) The material below is to be prepared for reading. Mark the stresses and tunes. Concentrate your attention on the vowel [ae]. b) Let your fellow-student read this exercise aloud for you to detect his possible errors in sounds. Tell him what must be done to eliminate them:

[{] 1. That's the man who sat on my hat in the tram.

2. Once there lived a lad who was always very sad.

For he hadn't any mother and he hadn't any dad.

3. Where are you going to, my little cat?

I'm going to town to buy a hat!

What!? A hat for a cat? A cat in a hat?

Who ever saw a cat in a hat?

III. Write the following words and phrases in transcription and explain the reading rules:

share, store, here, cure, fur, term, more, firm, spare, sphere, wire, mere, a spare moment, a famous painter, a rare ring, the upper teeth, the thick wood, the first letter, the next room, the full moon, the vast territory.

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

1. [i:] - please, read, believe, weak, clean;

[I] - ill, begin, transcription, distinct, listen, switch;

[e] - lesson, present, temperature, let, exercise, check, text, rest, any, correct;

[{] - absent, bad, palatalization, family, thank.

2. a) Alveolars replaced by dentals: in Ù the nouns, at Ù the board, read Ù the text, clean Ù the board;

b) Loss of plosion: sit Ù down, read Ù Text 7, write Ù down, next Ù time;

c) Clear [I] before [j:]: will Ù you take, will Ù you please switch on the cassette-recorder?

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

VI. Transcribe the following sentences, mark the stresses and tunes. Read the sentences aloud:

1. Don't go to the cinema tonight. 2. Don't forget. 3. Get us some chalk. 4. Pronounce the sentence. 5. Find page twenty-nine. 6. Stand up, please. 7. Good morning, everybody. 8. Sit down, please. 9. Any mistakes noticed? 10. Is everything correct, Pete? 11. What's the pronunciation of this word? 12. Do you follow me?

VII. Answer the following questions:

A. 1. Can you speak English well? 2. Can you speak French well? 3. Can you understand Spanish? 4. Can you count the chairs in this room? 5. Can we write without a pen or a pencil? 6. What can we do with a fountain-pen? 7. May I take your textbook? 8. May Helen leave the classroom? 9. May we go to the pictures? 10. Must we speak English now? 11. What must we have if we want to write a letter? 12. What must we have if we want to buy something? 13. What must we use if we want to wash our hands? 14. What must you do when you have flu? 15. What must you do to make your reading distinct?

B. 1. Is this your pen or mine? 2. Whose bag is this? 3. Is this watch yours or mine? 4. Is that watch hers or his? 5. Is this your room or theirs? 6. Is this box yours or ours? 7. Is this your desk or their desk? 8. Is this notebook mine or yours? 9. Is this cassette-recorder ours or theirs?

C. 1. How many students are there in your group? 2. How many students are absent? 3. How many students are present? 4. Who is the monitor in your group? 5. What is the monitor's name? 6. Have you got any bag? 7. Where is your bag? 8. Have you got a ball-pen? Is it a good one? What colour is it? 9. Is there much chalk at the board? 10. Have you many books at home? 11. Are there Russian or English books in your bag? 12. Have you got a watch? Is it right or wrong? 13. Is N's watch fast or slow? 14. Is A's dress black or brown? 15. Is B's ball-pen green or yellow?

VIII. a) Write the interrogative and negative forms of the following sentences:

1. She can spell the noun correctly. 2. You may take your exercise-book. 3. He can write this in transcription. 4. There are some mistakes in her dictation. 5. My sister has got two interesting magazines. 6. Doctor Sandford is busy in his study. 7. Spelling is her weak point.

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