Good morning, Mrs Church.Good morning, Mr Cheshire. I'd like some chops for the children's lunch.Chump chops or shoulder chops, Mrs Church ?I'll have four shoulder chops, and I want a small chicken.Would you like to choose a chicken, Mrs Church ?Which one is cheaper?This one's the cheapest. It's a delicious chicken.How much is all that? I haven't got cash. Can I pay by cheque?Of course, Mrs Church.
Recipe Cheese-topped chops
4 chops, sherry, Cheddar cheese, 1 fresh chilli or a pinch of chilli powder (not too
much chilli), mushrooms, shallots
1. Pour a little sherry over the chops.
2. Chop the mushrooms, cheese and shallots.
3. Mix the mushrooms, cheese, shallots and chilli.
4. Grill the chops.
5. Put the chops in a dish.
6. Spread the mixture over the chops.
7. Grill the chops and mixture for a few minutes.
8. Serve the chops with fresh French salad and chips.
Unit 35[d3] jam
First practise [t∫]. Use your voice to make [d3].
Practice 1 Listen and repeat:
Sound 1
Sound 2
Sound 1
Sound 2
cheap
choke
chin
jeep
joke
gin
cherry
larch
H
Jerry
large
age
Test Tick the words you recognise in the sentences you hear:
1. a) choking; b) joking
2. a) larch; b) large
3. a) cheap; b) jeep
4. a) chain; b) Jane
5. a) chilly; b) Jilly
6. a) cheered; b) jeered
Just outside this village there's a very dangerous bridge.
Yes. Charles told me two jeeps crashed on it in January.
What happened?
Well George Churchill was the driver of the larger jeep, and he was driving very dangerously. He'd been drinking gin.
George Churchill ? Do I know George Churchill ?
Yes. That ginger-haired chap. He's the manager of the travel agency in Chester.
Oh, yes. I remember George. He's always telling jokes. Well, was anybody injured ?
Oh, yes. The other jeep went over the edge of the bridge, and two children and another passenger were badly injured.
Were both the jeeps damaged?
Oh, yes.
And what happened to George ?
George? He's telling jokes in jail now, I suppose!
Joining sounds
When two sounds [t∫] or [d3] come together, you must say both sounds.
Listen and repeat:
orange juice
village jail
large gentleman
huge jam-jar
rich child
watch chain
which chair
how much cheese
which job
college chess
large cherries
teach German
Unit 36[f]fan
Touch your top teeth with your bottom lip.
Blow out air between your lip and your teeth.
Practice 1 Listen and repeat:
Sound 1
Sound 2
Sound 1
Sound 2
pin
peel
pail
fin
feel
fail
pine
snip
harp
fine
sniff
half
Practice 2 Listen and repeat:
Sound 1
Sound 2
Sound 1
Sound 2
hat
heat
hill
fat
feet
fill
heel
hall
hole
feel
fall
foal
Test Tick the words you recognise in the sentences you hear:
1. a) pin; b) fin
2. a) peel; b) feel
3. a) snipping; b) sniffing
4. a) heel; b) feel
5. a) hat; b) fat
6. a) pole; b) hole; c) foal
Practice 3 Listen and repeat:
fill in
finished
feels fine
five
for
form
February
full front
friendly
office
sofa
profile
telephone
beautiful
comfortable
after
Mr Puffin
difficult
if
wife
laugh
I want a photograph of myself and my wife.
Please fill in this form, sir.
Would you prefer a full front photograph or a profile?
A full front, don't you think, Phillippa ?
Yes. A full front photograph.
Please sit on this sofa. Is it comfortable, Mrs Puffin?
Yes. It feels fine.
Mr Puffin, please give a friendly laugh.
That's difficult. If you say something funny I can laugh.
And, Mrs Puffin, please look soft and beautiful.
(laughs)
Is it finished?
Yes.
Will the photograph be ready for the first of February ?
Yes. Please phone my office after five days, Mr Puffin.
IntonationListen and repeat:
If Fred /laughs,he looks \funny.
If Grandfather /flies,he gets \frightened.
Jumbled sentences
If Fred laughs,
If Phillippa laughs,
If Grandfather flies,
If you want to eat fish,
If you telephone information,
If you fry food,
If a man has a wife,
If you finish before the others,
he isn't free.
he gets frightened.
she looks beautiful.
you're first.
it gets full of fat.
they're helpful.
he looks funny.
you need a knife and fork.
Example:
If Fred laughs, he looks funny.
Unit 37[v]van
First practise [f]. Use your voice to make [v].
Practice 1Listen and repeat:
Sound 1
Sound 2
Sound 1
Sound 2
feel
fine
fail
veal
vine
veil
few
leaf
half
view
leave
halve
Practice 2 Listen and repeat:
Sound 1
Sound 2
Sound 1
Sound 2
bet
best
ban
vet
vest
van
bolts
boat
bowl
volts
vote
vole
Test Tick the words you recognise in the sentences you hear:
1. a) few; b) view
2. a) half; b) halve
3. a) fast; b) vast
4. a) boat; b) vote
5. a) bolts; b) volts
6. a) fowls; b) bowels; c) vowels
Practice 3 Listen and repeat:
Vera
very
village
valley
van
Victor
living
November
leaving
driving
lived
arrived
have
five
love
lovely
leaves
Dialogue A fine view
Vera: Victor: Vera: Victor: Vera: Victor:
Has your family lived here for very long?
Five and a half years. We arrived on the first of February.
What a fine view you have!
Yes. I love living here.
Look! You can see the village down in the valley.
Yes. It's a lovely view.
Reading
This is a photograph of a fat farmer arriving at a village in the valley. He's driving a van. It's a fine day, but it's November, and the leaves have fallen from the vine in the front of the photograph.
Conversation
Ask somebody these questions about the photograph:
1 Who's driving the van?
2 How many leaves have fallen from the vine?
3 Where do the villagers live?
4 Is the van leaving or arriving ?
5 Is it a vine or a fir tree in the front of the photograph ?
6 Are there four or five fir trees near the village?
Unit 38 [w] window
First practise [u:]. Make your lips round and hard for [w]. [w] is a short sound.
Practice 1Listen and repeat:
Sound 1
Sound 2
Sound 1
Sound 2
V
veal
vest
we
wheel
west
vet
vine
veil
wet
wine
whale
Test Tick the words you recognise in the sentences you hear:
1. a) vine; b) wine
2. a) V; b) we
3. a) veal; b) wheel
4. a) verse; b) worse
5. a) veils; b) whales
6. a) viper; b) wiper
Practice 2 Listen and repeat:
when
well
wet weather
Wendy went
which
what was
watched
walk
warm
wonderful
woods
why
wild
white wine
were
where
wore
away
railway
everywhere
sandwiches
twelve
twenty
quiet
quickly
sweet
Gwen
squirrels
Dialogue A walk in the woods
Gwen: Wendy: Gwen: Wendy:Gwen: Wendy:Gwen: Wendy:
Did you see Victor on Wednesday, Wendy ?
Yes. We went for a walk in the woods near the railway.
Wasn't it cold on Wednesday ?
Yes. It was very cold and wet. We wore warm clothes and walked quickly to keep warm.
It's lovely and quiet in the woods.
Yes. Further away from the railway it was very quiet, and there were wild squirrels everywhere. We counted twenty squirrels.
How wonderful! Twenty squirrels! And did you take lunch with you?
Yes. About twelve we had veal sandwiches and sweet white wine, and we watched the squirrels. It was a very nice walk.
IntonationListen and repeat:
Where was it \quiet?
What did they \drink?
Why did they walk \quickly?
In the \woods.
Sweet white \wine.
To keep \warm.
Jumbled answersAsk somebody these questions about the dialogue:
Where was it quiet?
What did they watch ?
What did they drink ?
Where were the squirrels ?
Why did they walk quickly ?
What did they eat for lunch ?
What time did they have lunch ?
What did Victor and Wendy do on Wednesday ?
The squirrels.
In the woods.
To keep warm.
Twelve o'clock.
In the woods.
They went for a walk.
Veal sandwiches.
Sweet white wine.
Unit 39 [j] yellow
First practise [i:]. Very quickly move your tongue to make the next sound.
Do not touch the roof of your mouth with your tongue.
Practice 1Listen and repeat:
Sound 1
Sound 2
Sound 1
Sound 2
joke
Jack
jam
yolk
yak
yam
jam
Jess
jeers
yam
yes
years
Test Tick the words you recognise in the sentences you hear:
1. a) joke; b) yolk
2. a) jam; b) yam
3. a) Jess; b) yes
4. a) jeers; b) years
5. a) juice; b) use
6. a) jet; b) yet
Practice 2 Listen and repeat:
yes
yesterday
yellow
years
York
Europe
onion
millionaire
you
university
excuse me
tutor
tunes
tuba
Excuse me. Did you use to live in York?
Yes.
Did you use to be a tutor at the University ?
Yes. For a few years.
Do you remember Hugh Young ? He was a music student.
Hugh Young? Did he use to have a huge yellow jeep ?
Yes. And he used to play beautiful tunes on the tuba.
Yes, I knew Hugh. He used to be a very stupid student. Do you have any news of Hugh ?
Yes. He's a millionaire now in New York.
A millionaire? Playing the tuba?
Oh, no. He produces jam in tubes, and tins of sausages and onion stew, and sells them in Europe. I read about Hugh in the newspaper yesterday.
Oh! Well, he wasn't so stupid.
ConversationPractise in pairs:
Example:
wash yourself
A: When you were very young, did you use to wash yourself?
B: Yes I did. / No, I didn't.
1 dress yourself
2 feed yourself
3 be beautiful
4 be stupid
5 like music
Unit 40[h] hat
Push a lot of air out very quickly.
Do not touch the roof of your mouth with your tongue.
Practice 1Listen and repeat:
Sound 1(no sound)
Sound 2
Sound 1(no sound)
Sound 2
ill
eel
and
hill
heel
hand
old
ear
eye
hold
hear
high
Test Tick the words you recognise in the sentences you hear:
1. a) eels; b) heels
2. a) and; b) hand
3. a) eye; b) high
4. a) art; b) heart
5. a) ow; b) how
6. a) air; b) hair
Hello, Ellen.Hello, Helen. Have you heard? There's been a horrible accident.Oh, dear! What's happened?Hilda Higgins' husband has had an accident on his horse.How awful! Is he injured?Yes. An ambulance has taken him to hospital.How did it happen ?He was hit by an express train. It was on the crossing just behind his house.How horrible!He's having an important operation in hospital now. Poor Hilda! She's so unhappy.Perhaps he'll be all right.I hope so.
Intonation Listen and repeat:
Oh dear!How horrible!
How awful! How terrible!
ConversationPractise in pairs:
Example:
A: Harold has had an accident.
B: How awful!
1 A helicopter has hit Allen's house.
2 Harry has a hole in his head.
3 Andrew spent all his holiday in hospital.
4 Hilda hit herself with a heavy hammer.
5 Ellen's husband is ill in hospital.
6 I've hurt my hand and I can't hold anything.
Unit 41[θ] thin
Put your tongue between your teeth.
Blow out air between your tongue and your top teeth.
Practice 1Listen and repeat:Practice 2 Listen and repeat:
Sound 1
Sound 2
Sound 1
Sound 2
mouse
sum
sick
sink
pass
mouth
thumb
thick
think
path
free
first
fin
Fred
half
three
thirst
thin
thread
hearth
Practice 3Listen and repeat:
Sound 1
Sound 2
Sound 1
Sound 2
tin
tree
thin
three
tanks
sheet
thanks
sheath
Test Tick the words you recognise in the sentences you hear:
1. a) sink; b) think
2. a) mouse; b) mouth
3. a) tin; b) thin
4. a) taught; b) thought
5. a) moss; b) moth
6. a) fought; b) thought
Practice 4 Listen and repeat:
thank you
thought
thousand
thirsty
Thursday
thirty-three
Edith Smith is only thirty.
Is she? I thought she was thirty-three.
Edith's birthday was last Thursday.
Was it? I thought it was last month.
The Smiths' house is worth thirty thousand pounds.
Is it? I thought it was worth three thousand.
Mr Smith is the author of a hook about moths.
Is he? I thought he was a mathematician.
I'm so thirsty.
Are you ? I thought you drank something at the Smiths'.
No. Edith gave me nothing to drink.
Shall I buy you a drink ?
Thank you.
StressListen and repeat:
Is she? I thought she was thirty-three.
Wasit? I thought it was last month.
Isit? I thought it was worth threethousand.
Areyou? I thought you dranksomething.
Unit 42 [ð] the feather
First practise [θ]. Use your voice to make [ð].
Practice 1Listen and repeat:
Sound 1
Sound 2
Sound 1
Sound 2
Dan
day
dare
than
they
there
doze
Ida
those
either
Practice 2Listen and repeat:
Practise these questions and answers:
What's this?
What are those ?
What's that?
What's this?
What's that?
What are these ?
Who's that?
This is the zoo.
Those are zebras.
That's a zebu.
This is Z.
That's zero.
These are zips.
That's Zack.
Practice 3Listen and repeat:
Sound 1
Sound 2
Sound 1
Sound 2
bays
close
whizz
bathe
clothe
with
breeze
boos
size
breathe
booth
scythe
Test Tick the words you recognise in the sentences you hear:
1. a) Ida; b) either
2. a) day; b) they
3. a) dares; b) there's
4. a) size; b) scythe
5. a) bays; b) bathe
6. a) boos; b) booth
Practice 4 Listen and repeat:
the
this
that
clothes
together
feathers
leather
Miss Brothers
another
smoother
rather
Dialogue The hat in the window
Miss Brothers: Assistant:Miss Brothers: Assistant: Miss Brothers:Assistant:Miss Brothers: Assistant:
I want to buy the hat in the window.
There are three hats together in the window, madam. Do you want the one with the feathers ?
No. The other one.
The small one for three pounds?
No. Not that one either. That one over there. The leather one.
Ah! The leather one. Now this is another leather hat, madam. It's better than the one in the window. It's a smoother leather.
I'd rather have the one in the window. It goes with my clothes.
Certainly, madam. But we don't take anything out of the window until three o'clock on Thursday.
StressListen and repeat:
Which hatdo youthink is betterthan the others ?
I think the onewith the feathers is better than the others.
Unit 43[m] mouth
Close your lips. Use your voice, [m] comes through your nose.
Practice 1 Listen and repeat:
Mm!
me
met
may
make
maybe
tomorrow
summer
family
crumpets
Cambridge
remember
him
Tim
time
come
some
home
Smith
small
smart
Mum
home-made
Tom Mitcham
Dialogue Mum's crumpets
Jim:Mrs Smith: Jim:Mrs Smith:Jim:Mrs Smith: Jim:
Mum, may Tom Mitcham come home with me for tea tomorrow ?
Of course, Jim. Have I met Tom before?
You met him in the summer. He's very small and smart.
Oh, yes. I remember Tom. Does his family come from Cambridge ?
Yes. Oh, Mum! Will you make some home-made crumpets tomorrow ?
Mm ... maybe. If I have time.
I told Tom about your crumpets, Mum. That's why he's coming for tea tomorrow!
Intonation'Mm' has many meanings.
Practise these:
Mmm means 'What did you say?'
Mm means 'yes'.
Mmmmm means 'How nice!'
Now listen to this conversation and say which meaning 'Mm' has in B's answers.
A: Would you like some home-made crumpets ?
B: Mm?
A: Would you like some crumpets ?
B: Mm.
A: Here you are.
B: (eating) Mm!
A: I'm glad you like them. I made them myself. Would you like to try them with marmalade ?
B: Mm?
A: Marmalade. They're marvellous with marmalade. Would you like some ?
B: Mm.
A: Here you are.
B: (eating) Mm!
Unit 44 [n] nose
Put your tongue on the roof of your mouth.
Touch your side teeth with the sides of your tongue.
Use your voice, [n] comes through your nose.
Practice 1Listen and repeat:
Sound 1
Sound 2
Sound 1
Sound 2
me
mile
mine
knee
Nile
nine
Tim
comb
name
tin
cone
mane
Test Tick the words you recognise in the sentences you hear:
1. a) combs; b) cones
2. a) mine; b) nine
3. a) name; b) mane
4. a) some; b) sun
5. a) warm; b) warn
6. a) money; b) mummy
Practice 2 Listen and repeat:
noise
morning
rent
agency
oven
often
seven
eleven
apartment
unfurnished
inexpensive
month
station
accommodation
television
prison
Northend Avenue
central London
ninety-nine
11.15
garden
kitchen
Mr Mason
certainly
Good morning. I want an apartment in central London.
Certainly, sir. How much rent did you want to pay?
No more than £27 a month.
£27 a month? We don't often have apartments as inexpensive as that. We have one apartment for £29 a month in Northend Avenue. It's down near the station.
Is it furnished?
No. It's unfurnished. The kitchen has no oven. It's forbidden to use the garden. No friends in the apartment after eleven in the evening. No noise and no television after 11.15.
No ... No thank you! I want an apartment, not a prison!
Unit 45[ŋ]ring
Touch the back of the roof of your mouth with the back of your tongue.
Use your voice, [ŋ] comes through your nose.
Practice 1Listen and repeat:Practice 2 Listen and repeat:
Sound 1
Sound 2
Sound 1
Sound 2
win
thin
ban
ran
run
Ron
wing
thing
bang
rang
rung
wrong
wink
sink
rink
stink
bank
wing
sing
ring
sting
bang
Test Tick the words you recognise in the sentences you hear:
1. a) Ron; b) wrong
2. a) ran; b) rang
3. a) sinks; b) sings
4. a) win; b) wink; c) wing
5. a) ban; b) bank; c) bang
6. a) sinners; b) sinkers; c) singers
Practice 3 Listen and repeat:
pink
think
drink
finger
angrily
Mr King
Mr Pring
morning
something
standing
happening
strong string
(angrily). Bang! Bang! Bang! What are the Kings doing at seven o'clock on Sunday morning?
Well, Mr King is singing.
Yes, but what's the banging noise?
(looking out of the window) He's standing on a ladder and banging some nails into the wall with a hammer. Now he's hanging some strong string on the nails.
And what's Mrs King doing?
She's bringing something pink for Mr King to drink. Now she's putting it under the ladder, and... Ohh!
What's happening?
The ladder's falling.
What's Mr King doing?
He's hanging from the string. He's holding the string in his fingers and he's shouting to Mrs King.
And is she helping him ?
No. She's running to our house.
Now she's ringing our bell.
I'm not going to answer it. I'm sleeping.
Unit 46 [l] letter Part 1
First practise [n]. To make [l], the air goes over the sides of your tongue and out of your mouth.
Practice 1Listen and repeat:
Sound 1
Sound 2
Sound 1
Sound 2
no
night
nine
low
light
line
Jenny
bin
ten
jelly
Bill
tell
Test Tick the words you recognise in the sentences you hear:
1. a) night; b) light
2. a) no; b) low
3. a) Jenny; b) jelly
4. a) knot; b) lot
5. a) snow; b) slow
6. a) snacks; b) slacks
Practice 2Look at the picture. Then answer the questions.
Who's late for lunch?
What's Mr Lee looking at ?
Is there a lot of lemonade left or only a little ?
Hello Lily. You're looking lovely today.
Hello, Mr Allen. You're early for lunch. It's only eleven o'clock.
When I come later there's usually nothing left.
What would you like ?
Leg of lamb, please.
And would you like a plate of salad?
It's lettuce with black olives.
Marvellous! I love olives. And would you like a glass of lemonade?
Yes please, Lily. And a slice of melon and some yellow jelly.
Unit 47 [l] ball Part 2
In these words I has a slightly different sound:
Bill
Paul
tell
fall
pull
I'll
small
help
myself
holding
difficult
salesman
a spoilt child
always
fault
uncle
bicycle
careful
beautiful
sensible
special
little
gentleman
What a beautiful bicycle!
Paul! Be careful!
Excuse me, sir. This child is too small to ride this bicycle. It's a very difficult bicycle to ...
Be careful, Paul!
You always tell me to be careful. Don't help me. I won'tfall.
But, sir. This is a very special bicycle. It's ...
Don't pull the bicycle, Uncle Bill. I'll do it myself.
Be sensible, Paul. This gentleman says it's a ...
(Paul falls)
It was Uncle Bill's fault. He was holding the bicycle.
IntonationListen and repeat:
What a tall gentleman!
What a wonderful apple!
Unit 48[r] rain Part 1
Turn the tip of your tongue up as in the picture.
Do not touch the roof of your mouth with your tongue.
The sides of your tongue should touch your back teeth.
Practice 1Listen and repeat:
Sound 1
Sound 2
Sound 1
Sound 2
long
light
load
wrong
right
road
jelly
fly
glass
Jerry
fry
grass
Test Tick the words you recognise in the sentences you hear:
1. a) long; b) wrong
2. a) jelly; b) Jerry
3. a) glass; b) grass
4. a) collect; b) correct
5. a) lane; b) rain
6. a) flea; b) free
Practice 2 Listen and repeat:
Ruth
Rita
Rosemary
Mrs Reed
restaurant
Russia
very
Jerry
Paris
married
parent
America
everywhere in Europe
pretty
proud
France
waitress
countries
Austria
interesting
secretary
Are all the children grown up now, Ruth?
Oh, yes. Laura is the cleverest one. She's a librarian in the public library.
Very interesting. And what about Rita?
She's a secretary at the railway station.
And what about Rosemary? She was always a very pretty child.
Rosemary is a waitress in a restaurant in Paris. She's married to an electrician.
And what about Jerry and Roland?
Jerry drives a lorry. He drives everywhere in Europe.
Really? Which countries does he drive to?
France and Austria and Greece and Russia.
And does Roland drive a lorry too?
Oh, no. Roland is a pilot.
Really? Which countries does he fly to?
Australia and America.
Unit 49[r] girl Part 2
New York
depart
afternoon
passengers
forbidden
wonderful
German
upstairs
marvellous
emergency
storm
worse
later
weather
announcer
sir
are
beer
dear
four
more
there
sure
quarter
airport
order
earlier
departure
forecaster
supermarket
Dr Darling
Mr Martin
The letter [r] is silent in these words.
When there is no vowel following it, [r] is silent.
DialogueIn this dialogue every letter [r] is silent.
In the airport
Announcer:Dr Darling:Mr Martin: Dr Darling:Mr Martin:Air hostess:Mr Martin: Air hostess:
The 2.30 plane to New York will depart later this afternoon at four forty-four. Passengers on this flight are forbidden to leave the airport.
Wonderful! I'm going to the bar to order some more German beer. Where's the bar?
It's upstairs. There's a bookshop too. And a supermarket. This is a marvellous airport!
Oh dear! I wanted to get to New York earlier. Ah! Here's an air hostess. Excuse me. I don't understand. Has there been an emergency?
Oh, no, sir. There's just a storm, and the weather forecast says it will get worse. So the plane will leave a little later this afternoon.
Are you sure ?
Oh, yes, sir. Our departure time is at four forty-four.