I. Study Substitution Table No. 1 and compose as many sentences as you can. II. Read the following words and word combinations and explain the reading rules:

II. Read the following words and word combinations and explain the reading rules:

a) weight, lain, coin, play, neighbour, neutral, grew, pie, pool, took, toy, autumn, how, know, narrow, true, group, bread, peace, feel, dare, mere, where, sore, ore, nasty, salt, lure, sure, jerk, jaw, fruit, foe, paw, hair, dear, chair, peer, learn, car, moor;

b) a white bear; a poor fellow; a new dish; a low couch; a big mouth; a narrow path; a broken chair; an old gypsy; chilly weather; brown bread; good maize; bitter beer; fresh air; red hair; bad flour; repeat each word; correct these mistakes; close the window; take the pill.

III. The material below is to be prepared for reading. Mark the stresses and tunes. Concentrate your attention on the vowel [зU]. Let your fellow-student read this exercise for you to detect his possible errors in sounds:

[зU] 1. Oh, no, don't go home alone, nobody knows how lonely the road is.

2. Soames never boasts of what he knows. But Rose never knows of what she boasts.

3. As you sow you shall mow.

4. Little strokes fell great oaks.

5. If many men knew what many men know,

If many men went where many men go,

If many men did what many men do.

The world would be better - I think so, don't you?

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

1. [Á] - doctor, not, modern, following, long;

[þ] - lawn, also, call, before, orchard;

[зU] - cosy, also, only, own, so;

[{] - Sandford, pantry, grandmother;

[u:] - rooms, two, fruit;

[aI] - behind, dining-room, quite;

[з:] - nursery, furniture;

[e] - Betty, bedroom, every, many;

[аU] - house, downstairs.

2. a) No devoicing before voiceless consonants: Sandford's Ù house, is Ù comfortable, Sandford Ù says.

b) Alveolars replaced by dentals: and Ù therooms, and Ù the bathroom.

c) Loss of plosion: fruit Ù trees, but Ù Doctor, must Ùpay.

d) No glottal stop: in front Ù of, there is Ù a green lawn, is Ù also, his Ù own.

V. a) Listen to the recording of the text "Doctor Sandford's House". Mark the stresses and tunes. b) Practise the text for test reading. Listen to the text carefully until you can say it in exactly the same way.

VI. Transcribe the following sentences. Mark the stresses and tunes:

1. Behind Doctor Sandford's house there is a small orchard. 2. He says: "I have a good television-set." 3. The house is not large, but it is comfortable.

VII. Answer the following questions:

A. 1. Is Doctor Sandford's house large? 2. What is there in front of the house and behind it? 3. What rooms are there in the house? 4. What kind of furniture is there in the house? 5. Is it Doctor Sandford's own house?

B. 1. Is your flat large or small? 2. How many rooms are there in your flat? 3. What do you call a room people sleep in? 4. What do you call a room people have meals in?5. What do you call a room where a person studies, reads, writes, etc.? 6. What do you call a room where children sleep, play and have meals? 7. What do you call a room where people spend time after dinner or supper (where guests are received)? 8. What do you call a room where food is cooked? 9. What do you call a room where food is kept? 10. Is your flat comfortable and cosy? 11. There is a green lawn in front of your house, isn't there? 12. Are there any fruit trees in your garden? 13. Is your house old or new? 14. What colour are the walls in your flat? 15. What articles of furniture are there in your parents' bedroom (the dining-room, your father's study, your own room)? 16. There are many new houses in your street, aren't there? 17. Have you got a rubbish chute in you flat to carry rubbish down? 18. Have you got built-in furniture in your flat? 19. Has she got a unit in her room?

C. 1. Can you read English? 2. Gan you speak French? 3. Who can answer my question? 4. Where can I find this book? 5. You can transcribe this word, can't you? 6. You can't speak German, can you? 7. May I ask you a few questions? 8. May I go out? 9. May I open the window? 10. May I take your book? 11. Must I translate this text? 12. Must we learn this poem by heart? 13. Must I put this book into the desk? 14. What must I read now? 15. (At) What time must I come home? 16. We can't go to the skating-rink at four, can we?

VIII. Write in words:

a) 122, 2 489,1 963,1 844; 11 389, 20 856; 119 922.

b) Mоde1: 3.15 - It's a quarter past three.

5.05; 3.25; 6.30; 3.35; 11.40; 10.15; 9.20; 5.10; 4.45; 7.05; 7.55; 8.50.

IX. a) Chance the following sentences into interrogative and negative:

1. There are some fruit trees in front of my house. 2. There is a study in our flat. 3. It is a difficult text. 4. I have a room of my own. 5. We can go out for a walk now. 6. You may open the window. 7. The students must learn this dialogue by heart. 8. Mr. Sandford must pay much money for his house. 9. You must switch off the cassette-recorder.

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