Topical vocabulary. Kinds of clothes: coat, shirt, blouse, cardigan, sweater, skirt, suit, trousers, shorts, a pull-over

Kinds of clothes: coat, shirt, blouse, cardigan, sweater, skirt, suit, trousers, shorts, a pull-over, dressing-gown, jersey, jeans, corduroy trousers (corduroys).

Articles of clothing: socks, stockings, scarf, muffler, kerchief, gloves, mittens, tie, handkerchief, tights, pyjamas, nightgown, underwear (undies).

Parts of clothes: collar, sleeve, belt.

Footwear: slippers, sandals, sport shoes, walking shoes, court shoes, rubber boots, training shoes (trainers).

Textiles: silk, cotton (print), velvet, woollen cloth.

Jewellery: ring, bracelet, ear-rings, chain, brooch, necklace.

Cereals: buckwheat, rice.

Meat: beef, pork, mutton, chicken, goose, duck, tinned meat.

Fish: herring, sprats, smoked fish, tinned fish.

Dairy products: cream, sour cream, cottage cheese.

Confectionery: biscuits, cakes, chocolate, pastry.

Vegetables: onions, turnips, melon, water-melon, cauliflower, lettuce, radish, parsley, celery.

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 this exercise aloud for you to detect his errors in sounds and tell him what must be done to eliminate them:

[r] 1. A foreign accent is a very great drawback.

2. The three will probably drive across the Brooklyn Bridge.

3. We gathered ripe red raspberries along the river road.

4. When at Rome do as the Romans do.

5. Neither rhyme nor reason.

6. Every cook praises his own broth.

[аU] 1. What have you found out about it?

2. Out of sight out of mind.

[аU - aI] 3. Snow came in the night

Without a sound,

Like a white cloud trembling

Down to the ground.

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

A. 1. [Î] becoming; smiling; clothing; feeling pleased; earrings; shopping Ù is one of them; coming Ù up.

2. Loss of plosion: reached Ù Dearborn Street, looked Ù quite smart, turned Ù before the glass, stood Ù by.

3. Linking [r]: motherÙ-of-pearl, helped her Ù on with it, a pair Ù of gloves.

B. 1. [зU - Á] - oh, bother, go shopping, so often, fond of shopping, go to the grocer's.

[з: - þ] - your turn, were born.

2. a) No voicing before voiced consonants and vowels: half Ù a pound, take Ù that bag.

b) No, glottal stop: so Ù often, hardly Ù any, did I Ù ever, so Ù absent-minded.

III. 1. a) Listen to the recording of the text "Carrie Goes to a Department Store". 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.

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

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

1. "What size gloves do you wear?" she asked. 2. I don't think it's becoming. 3. "Will you please show me that pale-green one?" she said. 4. That can't be called very cheap.

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