Practice this conversation

A: Did you have good weather on holiday?

B: The weather was OK, but everything else was awful.

A: What was the matter?

B: My younger brother was ill. My mother stayed in all the time, to look after him. My father wouldn't leave my mother. So neither my mother nor my father went out at all. I went out with my elder brother, but we got tired of being together all the time?

A: Is your younger brother all right now?

B: Yes, my brother is all right, but my mother is very tired.

4. Repeat the questions and answers below. Notice Bs voice falls and rises in the part of the sentence. He is partly saying 'Yes', but is going to continue, 'but…..'

A: Did you have good weather on holiday?

B: The weath er was OK, but everything else was aw ful.

A: Is your younger brother all right now?

B: Yes, my broth er is all right, but my mother is very tired.

With a partner, take the part of B. Answer these questions.

A: Was you brother ill?

A: Did you all look after your brother?

A: Did your father and brother stay with your mother?

[ð] - [v] - [w]

Practice this conversation.

A: Which vase would you like?

B: That one over there, please.

A: This one?

B: No, that very small one, over there in the corner.

Make similar conversation using the phrases below.

that lovely one the other one

this one in the corner the one over in the other corner

that valuable one the five-pound one

Practice these conversations.

A: I've got a job with the BBC.

B: The British Broadcasting Corporation?

A: No, the Brighton Brush Company.

A: I didn't sleep very well last night.

B: Was your brain full of brilliant ideas?

A: No, there were breadcrumbs in the blankets.

UNIT 39

CLUSTERS

Say clusters beginning with [s]

Practice describing these problems.

I was stung on the wrist by a wasp. I screamed.

I slipped down the steps and sprained my ankle.

We had a puncture, and our spare wheel was flat.

I stretched up to shut a window, and strained myself.

A thief snatched my bag in the street.

Quiz. Which English words beginning with 's' are defined like this?

1. a place where children go to study

2. to slide over ice, wearing a blade under your foot

3. to slide over snow, wearing a long strip of metal under your foot

4. frozen water vapour

5. to rest, unconscious, with the eyes closed

6. a thin, flat piece of e.g. bread

7. a country situated to the north of England

Say clusters with [f ], [θ] and [ʃ]