Listen and repeat the words paying attention to the sounds.

[ i ] - [ i: ]

sit – sea wit – wheat lip – leap rid – read

kin – keen din – dean wick – weak ship – sheep

lid – lead rich – reach pity – Peter live – belief

pin – people this – these chip – cheap hit – heat

hip – heap jig – jeez lick – legal mill – meal

Activity 3. Read the sentences. Mind the reading rules.

 

It is the limit!

Willie is quick-witted.

Lily wishes it finished quickly.

It's difficult to contradict him.

Jim is in the picture.

Please keep in touch with Peter.

The pretty women are busy in the gym.

She is singing a lovely song.

Bring chicken for dinner.

He gives twice who gives quickly.

He lived in Italy.

A rich King has a pretty sister Kitty.

Kitty has sixty kittens.

He speaks Chinese quite well.

 

 

Activity 4. Learn this poem and try to make up your own version.

The snake bit a pig. The dog bit a rabbit.

The pig is ill. The rabbit is ill.

The snake is bad. The dog is bad.

The fox bit a cock. The kitten bit a fish.

The fox is ill. The fish is ill.

The fox is bad. The kitten is bad.

The cat bit a chick. ______________

The chick is ill. _______________

The cat is bad. _______________

 

Activity 5. Read the proverbs according to the reading rules.

Can you find Russian versions for them?

Activity 6. Read the rhymes. Mind the sound [ i ].

 

Little Kittens Solomon Grundy

Where are you going, Solomon Grundy

My little kittens? Born on Monday,

We are going to town Christened on Tuesday,

To get up some mittens. Married on Wednesday,

What! Mittens for kittens? Took ill on Thursday,

Do kittens wear mittens? Worse on Friday,

Who ever saw little kittens Died on Saturday,

With mittens? Buried on Sunday.

This is the end of

Solomon Grundy.

²Activity 7. Listen to the speaker and imitate the tongue twisters.

Learn one of them by heart.

Little head, little wit. A dimple in your chin –

Big head, not a bit. Many hearts you will win.

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