5. Reading Matter. Listen how the speaker on the tape reads the phrases below.

A train is waiting at a railway station. It rained and rained on that gray April day. He who makes no mistakes makes nothing.

6. Transcribe and intone the phrases above.

• Practise reading them at normal conversational speed.

1. Listen how the speaker on the tape pronounces the following words:

I, ice, my, by, time, five, like, kite

2. Read the words yourself. Mind that no glottal stop should be heard before the diphthong initial.

3. Listen carefully to your fellow-student reading the words of Ex. 1. Tell him what his errors in the articulation of are.

2. Now transcribe and read the following word contrasts. Con­centrate on the difference in vowel length, mind it does not affect the glide.

lie — lied — light; die — died — dike

5.Reading Matter. Listen how the speaker on the tape reads the phrases below.

A white kite is flying high in the sky. A stitch in time saves nine. I like to write to my wife and child.

6.Transcribe and intone the phrases above.

• Practise reading hem at normal conversational speed.

1. Listen how the speaker on the tape pronounces the following words. Read the words yourself.

boy, toy, boil, coin, choice, voice, oil, oiler

2. Listen carefully to your fellow-student reading the words above. Tell him what his errors in the articulation of are.

2. Now transcribe and read the following word contrasts. Con­centrate on the length of the nucleus of the diphthong.

boy — boys — boyhood; toy — toys — toyshop

4. Reading Matter. Listen how the speaker on the tape reads the phrases below.

The boy joined us with joy. Does this noise annoy those boys? Joyce enjoys annoying Roy.

5. Transcribe and intone the phrases above, practise reading them at normal conversational speed.

1. Listen how the speaker on the tape pronounces the following words:

so, go, tone, home, note, hope, old, only

2. Read the words yourself. Pay attention to the vowel initial. No glottal stop should be heard before it.

2. Listen carefully to your fellow-student reading the words of Ex. 1. Tell him what his errors in the articulation of are.

2. Now transcribe and read the following word contrasts. Con­centrate on the length of the nucleus of the diphthong.

go — goal — goat foe — phone — photo row — road — wrote

5. Reading Matter. Listen how the speaker on the tape reads the phrases, and the limerick below.

A minute ago he spoke to Mr. Snow over the phone.

Don't poke your nose into things you don't know.

There was an Old Man with a nose

Who said, "If you choose to suppose

That my nose is too long,

You are certainly wrong!"

That remarkable man with a nose.

6. Practise reading the exercise above at normal conversational speed. Concentrate your attention on the sound .

1. Listen how the speaker on the tape reads the following words:

now, how, loud, proud, house, mouse, out, owl

2. Read the words yourself.

2. Listen carefully to your fellow-student reading the words of Ex. 1. Tell him what his errors in the articulation of the diph­thong are.

2. Now transcribe and read the following word contrasts. Con­centrate on the length of the nucleus of the diphthong.

bow, how, bowed, howl, about, house