I. Study Substitution Table 2 and compose as many sentences as you can

II. Read and transcribe the following words. Explain the reading rules:

did - deed, had - hard, lick - leak, hip - heap, dear - deer, lad - lard, Mary - marry, hail - hear, sill - seal, bear -beer, lip - leap, pit - pat, hill - heal, chair - cheer, bad -bard, fill - feel, marry - merry, ship - sheep, taught - tap -tape, pen - pain - pale, fit - foot - fate, dive - dove - dame, daisy - lazy - darling.

III. Copy the following words and arrange them in columns according to the corresponding type of syllable:

stamp, write, stir, bench, tulip, Arthur, button, mule, lace, typist, fare, dark, cure, burn, here, muff, fine, mere, lace, cube, purse, tires, fade, prepare, mass, system.

IV. Spell and transcribe the 3rd person singular of the following verbs:

come, go, play, write, wash, stress, begin, catch, cut, eat, hang, get, relax, hold, know, lead, meet, ring, think, understand, work, change, open, push, kiss, study, stay, copy, say, carry, watch.

V. The material below is to be prepared for reading. Mark the stresses and tunes. Concentrate your attention on the sound [з:]. Let your fellow-student read the exercise aloud for you to detect his errors:

[з:] 1. A little girl with a pretty curl.

2. Learn thirteen words of Lesson Thirty.

3. The first word is a verb and the third word is an adverb.

4. First come first served.

5. One good turn deserves another.

6. As the workman so is the work.

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

1. [i:] - see, receive, read, needn't, please, tea;

[{] - Saturday, Sandford, glad, can, family, thank, have;

[e] - enter, present, let, anything, pleasure, well;

[Á] - knock, what, doctor, clock.

Nasal plosion: needn't, certainly.

2. a) No devoicing before voiceless consonants: his Ù study, have Ù tea;

b) No voicing before voiced consonants: let's Ù go, this Ù way;

c) Loss of plosion: glad Ù to see you, sit Ù down, what Ù can I do, like to have it;

d) No glottal stop: Saturday Ù afternoon, Sandford Ù is Ù in, come Ù in, what Ù is Ù it, show him Ù in, Mr. White Ù enters.

VII a) Listen to the recording of the dialogue "Mr. White Comes Again". Mark the stresses and tunes. b) Practise the dialogue for test reading. Listen to the recording very carefully until you can say it in exactly the same way. c) Memorize the dialogue and dramatize it.

VIII. Read the following exclamations:

1. You are right! 2. It's excellent! 3. How nice! 4. She is here! 5. They are ready! 6. We can ask him!

IX. Pronounce the following phrases with the low-rising tone and then with the falling-rising tone:

X. Transcribe the following sentences, mark the stresses and tunes, picture them on the staves:

1. Good afternoon, Doctor? 2. What can I do for you? 3. Come in, please. 4. Show him in, Betty. 5. Have tea with us. - Thank you. I'd be glad to.

XI. Answer the following questions:

A. 1. Where is Mr. Sandford on a Saturday afternoon? 2. Who comes to see Doctor Sandford on a Saturday afternoon? 3. What does Mr. White ask Doctor Sandford about? 4. Why does Mr. White call on Doctor Sandford? 5. Doctor Sandford signs the paper, doesn't he? 6. What do they do in England at 5 o'clock in the afternoon?

B. 1. Do you like English? 2. You speak English well, don't you? 3. Where do you study English? 4. Does your brother go to the Institute every day? 5. Your classes begin in the morning, don't they? 6. Where do you prepare your lessons? 7. What does your brother do in the evening? 8. What foreign language does your mother speak? 9. What do you write on the blackboard with?

C. 1. What's the date today? 2. What day is it? 3. What is the first (second, third, fourth, fifth, sixth, seventh) day of the week? 4. What is the first (second, third, fourth, fifth, sixth, seventh, eighth, ninth, tenth, eleventh, twelfth) month of the year? 5. Which month is November? 6. Which month is June? 7. Which month is December? 8. When do your studies at the University begin? 9. When do the winter examinations begin? 10. When do the summer examinations begin?

XII. a) Make the following sentences interrogative and negative. b) Ask one another questions on the following statements and answer them in the negative. Keep moving this exercise rapidly.

Model: Mr. White wants to see you.

Does Mr. White want to see me?

No, he doesn't.

1. Mr. White and Betty enter the room. 2. Mr. White wants to see Doctor Sandford. 3. You can sign this paper. 4. I know some of these names. 5.I can do something. 6. The walls of my room are light-green.

XIII. Write questions to the words in bold type and let your fellow-student answer them. Observe the distribution of stress in the replies:

1. There are twelve months in a year. 2. There are thirty days in June. 3. She is twelve. 4. My brother's friend can skate well. 5. He is a doctor. 6. We call it a bedroom. 7. I like to read English books. 8. It is the first of October. 9. It is Thursday. 10. On the right I can see a bookcase.

XIV. a) Form all possible questions to which the-following sentences are the answers:

1. There are some newspapers on the desk. 2. We have tea at five o'clock. 3. I have two English lessons on Monday. 4. My parents live in Moscow. 5. My father is a doctor. 6. My father works at a hospital. 7. He is forty-five. 8. All the members of my family read this paper. 9. I can come and see you on Friday. 10. You may sign this paper tomorrow.

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