Topical vocabulary. Telephone Talk: a telephone-booth; a call-box; insert a coin in the slot; buzz, buzzing sound; long-distance call; to be disconnected (to be cut off); to get

Telephone Talk: a telephone-booth; a call-box; insert a coin in the slot; buzz, buzzing sound; long-distance call; to be disconnected (to be cut off); to get the wrong number; St. Petersburg is on the wire.

Letter Writing:

Opening greetings Corresponding polite endings

(on the left-hand side (on the right-hand side

of the page) of the page)

Dear Sir (Dear Madam), Yours truly; Yours faithfully

Dear Mr. Brown, Yours very truly; Respectfully

yours

My dear sister, Affectionately yours

Dearest Mother Your loving daughter

Phonetic notes

To make speech more expressive we do not always stress all the notional words in a sentence. Sometimes we make one or two words more prominent than the others. The word which is most important in the sentences is often marked by logical stress while the words following it remain unstressed or half-stressed as they do not introduce anything new, but refer to something already known.

e. g. There is an æ English 'speaking _\club at our faculty.

æ We, 'students, are _\proud of this fact.

Compare:

I beægan to pre'pare for my tentrance e'xams to the _\Uni_\versity.

And later:

I should ælike to 'show you the 'main _\building of our University.

Exercises

I. Transcribe the following words and explain the reading rules:

angry, exams, mind, mark, Russian, admire, hard, proud, sports, find, tape, lucky, ages, sorry, invite, club, certainly, rather.

II. a) The material below is to be prepared for reading. Mark the stresses and tunes. Concentrate your attention on sounds. b) Let your fellow-student read the sentences aloud for you to detect his errors in sounds and tell him what must be done to get the sounds right:

[T, ð] 1. The third Thursday of this month is the sixteenth.

2. Thirty-three thousand three hundred and thirty-three.

3. These are three brothers, these are their father and mother, this is their other brother.

4. Wealth is nothing without health.

5. First think then speak.

[T - s] Three things on this side and six things on that side.

[ð - f] That fish has a fat fin, this fish is a fish that has a thinner fin than that fish.

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

A. 1. [A:] - my mother and father, working hard, my best regards.

2. a) Alveolars replaced by dentals: at Ù the Institute, that's Ù the latest news.

b) Loss of plosion: don't Ù be angry, had Ù to take, glad Ù to tell you, old Ù building, don't Ù take part.

c) Linking [r]: mother Ù and father, four Ù exams, grammar Ù and phonetics, our Ù Institute.

В. 1. [зU] - Oh, hello, good at both, so long.

2. a) Alveolars replaced by dentals: joined Ù the society, and Ù the choir, but Ù then.

b) Loss of plosion: difficult Ù to study, at Ù both, hard Ù to make, and Ù tennis, about Ù to ring up.

c) Nasal plosion: excellent Ù marks, student Ù now, good Ù marks.

IV. 1. a) Listen to the recording of the text "Our University". b) Mark the stresses and tunes. c) Practise the text tor test reading. Listen to it very carefully until you can say it in exactly the same way.

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

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