Topical vocabulary. season, to shine brightly; to be out-of-doors; to be in blossom (to be in bloom); flower-bed; to cycle; to boat; to fish; to go cycling (boating

season, to shine brightly; to be out-of-doors; to be in blossom (to be in bloom); flower-bed; to cycle; to boat; to fish; to go cycling (boating, fishing); to bathe, to swim; to lie in the sun; to play with a ball; to play tennis (football); to play a game of chess (tennis); to pick flowers, to pick (gather) berries and mushrooms; to travel by car; at the seaside; on the beach; on the bank of the river

to blow; to go skating; skating-rink; to toboggan; flakes of snow; sleet; sledge; slush; to get wet through; melt

Conversational phrases

Weather remarks: What a marvellous (shocking) day! It seems to be getting more settled (clearing up), doesn't it? It's very windy (mild, wet, stormy) today. I'll be glad when the rain's over (the fog's cleared), won't you? It's nice (cold, warm, chilly, hot), isn't it?

Hesitation devices: um, er, well, actually, in fact, you see, you know, the thing is, it's like this, how shall I put it, thee (lengthening of the), ayyy (lengthening of a), tooo (lengthening of to), I think..., I believe..., I suppose.

Memory Work:

When the weather is wet

We must not fret, -

When the weather is cold

We must not scold.

When the weather is warm

We must not storm, -

But be thankful together

Whatever the weather.

Exercises

I. 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 for you to detect his errors in sounds and tell him what must be done to eliminate them:

[e] 1. Get ten eggs ready for breakfast.

2. Every day in every way.

The weather is getting better and better.

3. East or West home is best.

4. All is well that ends well.

5. Better late than never.

6. Health is above wealth.

II. Before you start working at the texts practise the sounds in the following word combinations from the texts:

A. 1. [Î] raining a little, wearing a mackintosh, carrying an umbrella, spreading over London, floating across the sky, having a flight;

2. [з:] their first words, almost certain, the other person, turned ripe;

3. [зU - þ - Á] almost, can only crawl along, the ponds are frozen over, a fight with snowballs.

B. 1. Alveolars replaced by dentals: read the weather-forecast, and the sun, but the English, about the weather, look at this.

2. Nasal plosion: it must be, it never, let me, like it now.

3. Loss of plosion: must be, what does it, but bright, spread to, it pours.

III. 1. a) Listen to the recording of the text "Seasons and Weather". Mark the stresses and tunes. b) Practise the text for test reading. Listen to it carefully until you can say it in exactly the same way.

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

IV. Copy out of Text 1 all the words with digraphs ai, ei, ее, оо, on, ow and transcribe them.

V. Give the four forms of the following verbs:

come, blow, drive, fall, prefer, freeze, ski, put, sweep, hang, show, sew, awake, sleep, build, stop, sit, read, write, play, leave, begin, become.

VI. Give the degrees of comparison of the following adjectives and transcribe them:

dark, heavy, hard, large, old, severe, pleasant, bad, good, strong, weak, little, far, near, late, clear, hot, warm, beautiful.

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