The ball is under the table. The boy is at the window.
Go into the room!
Take the newspaper out of the bag!
Go to the blackboard.
Take the book from the library.
Go down the stairs.
Look up.
NUMERALS 1—12
13—19
CardinalOrdinalone[ WAn ] the first[f3:st]two[tu:]the second['sekand]three[6ri:]the
third[9 :d]four[fo:]the fourth[fo:9]five[faiv]the fifth1[fife]six[siks]the
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sixth[siksG]seven['scvn]the seventh['sevnO]eight[eitlthe eighth[eite]nine[nam]the
ninth[патв]ten[ten]the tenth[ten9]eleven[I'levn]the eleventh[I'levne]twelve[twelv]the
twelfth[twelfG]
1 Полужирным шрифтом выделены числительные, представляющие особые
трудности в написании.
Cardinal
Ordinal
thirteen
['03:lti:n]
the thirteenth
['Gsi'tknG]
fourteen
['fo:'ti:n]
the fourteenth
['fo:ti:nei
fifteen
.['fifti:n]
the fifteenth
[TiftiinG]
sixteen
['siks'ti:n]
the sixteenth
['siks'tr.nG]
seventeen
['sevn'ti:n]
the seventeenth
['sevn'tknG]
eighteen
['ei'tiin]
the eighteenth
[*ei'ti:nG]
nineteen
['nain'tkn]
the nineteenth
['nam'ti:n0]
20—100
Cardinal
Ordinal
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twenty
['twenti]
the twentieth
['twentnG]
twenty-one
['twenti
the twenty-first
['twehtrf3:st]
Wn]
twenty-two
['twenti
the twenty-
['twenti'seksn
'tu:]
second
d]
thirty
[•03:ti]
the thirtieth
['GsitnG]
forty
[*fo:ti]
the fortieth
[TD-.tnG]
fifty
['fifti]
the fiftieth
I'fiftuG]
sixty
['siksti]
the sixtieth
['sikstuG]
seventy .
['sevnti]
the seventieth
['sevntiiGj
eighty
Teiti]
the eightieth
['emiG]
ninety
I'namti]
the ninetieth
I'namtnG]
a (one) hundred
['rundrad]
the hundredth
['rundradG]
Примечания. 1. Числительные, оканчивающиеся на суффикс -teen, имеют два
равных ударения: 'thir'teen. В связной речи под влиянием ритма одно из ударений
может* опускаться: 'fourteen books, но 'page fourteen.
2. Номер телефона читается 5687 — five six eight seven. Есл-рг~две первые (или
последние) цифры номера телефона одинаковые, употребляется слово double: 4417
— double four one seven: 3477 — three lour double seven. Если две средние цифры
номера телефона одинаковые, то слово double не употребляется: 7889 — seven eight
eight nine. Цифра 0 читается [зи]. Номера 1000, 2000 и т. д. читаются one thousand,
two thousand и т. д.
3. При обозначении номеров домов, квартир, автобусов и т. п., а также часто
страниц, глав, упражнений употребляются количественные числительные.
Существительные в таких случаях употребляются без артикля, и оба слова пишутся
с прописной буквы. Например1 The meeting will take place in Room Thirty.
I. Study Substitution Table No. 2, page 72 and compose as many sentences as you
can.
II. Transcribe the following words and explain the reading rules:
five, tip, bed, pipe, land, fry, rule, ton, tone, pupil, love, cut, shade, brother,
shall, bus, snack, blame, poke, found, aloud, green, town, toy, farm, yellow,
glove, warm, some, won, worse, nothing, mild, world, month, worth,
company, worship, none, find, wild, ought, above, brought.
III.
Explain the pronunciation of the consonants in bold type in the following
words:
face, eight, yet, gate, cage, engine, lock, wrong, write, job, white,
gymnastics, Alice, chest, light, cheek, fish, sigh, gently, knight, bright, ginger,
knock, physics, phlox, Gypsy, whole, whip, whisper.
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IV. Before you start working at the text practise the sounds in the following words
and word combinations:
1. [ae] — companions, married, family, parrot, rabbit;
( h ) — a house-wife, a hedgehog, in the house, to have a rabbit, his
mother, we have no peace;
[ 3 v ] —a lot of friends, most of them, a member of her family, is fond of
birds, because of all.
No palatalization: Smith, Elizabeth, beginner, sister.
2. a) No glottal stop: is JElizabeth, my^elder, have_only,
and^animals, isjeager, becausejof_all;
b) Linking [r|: my brother-in-law, a member^pf, my sisterjs, his
motherjs.
V. a) Listen to the recording of the text "Betty Smith", Mark the stresses and
tunes, b) Practise the text for test reading very carefully . until you can say it in
exactly the same way.
V. Transcribe the following sentences, mark the stresses and tunes:
1. My brother-in-law, Mr. Smith, is a writer. 2. Have you a sister? 3. How
old is she? 4. Whatrs her name? 5. Is Betty a member of his family?
VII. Answer the following questions:
1. What's Betty Smith's full name? 2. What is she? 3. Has she got many
companions? 4. Are her companions kind and jolly? 5. Who is Betty's elder
sister Helen married to? 6. Is Betty a member of her sister's family? 7. What's
her brother-tn-law?
9. Has Doctor Sandford parents? 9. Is Helen a doctor? 10. Have
they got any children? 1. How old is Betty's nephew? 12. Is he a
good child? 13. What's he fond of? 14. Is Benny eager to have
a dog? 15. Have they got any animals and birds in the house?
VIII. Ask and answer questions. Use contracted forms where possible.
Work in pairs.
M o d e l 1: What's his name? — (It's) Benny.
1. What's your name? 2. What's your mother's name? 3. What's her
nephew's name? 4. What is her sister's name? 5.1s "Benny" a boy's or a girl's
name? 6. What's your school-mate's (girl-friend's, boy-friend's) name? 7.
What's Betty's full name?
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M o d e l 2: Has your brother a large family? — Yes, (he has). No, (he
hasn't).
1. Has Betty Smith a large family? 2. Have you a large family? 3. Has your
cousin a brother (father, mother, friend, wife, parents, grandfather)? 4. Has
Benny got a hedgehog? 5. Has Benny got a rabbit? 6. Have you got a dog in
the house? 7. Has Benny friends? 8. Has Benny books (toys, pens, pencils)?
IX. Change the given groups of words as in the model.
M o d e l : the room of my sister — my sister's room
the friends of my sisters — my sisters' friends.
1. the brother of my mother; 2. the friend of my sister; 3. the husband of
his daughter; 4. the house of my parents; 5. the table of my father; 6. the work
of my mother; 7. the notebook of this student; 8. the books of these students;
9. the sister of my friend;
10.
the friend of our cousin; 11. the photo of my grandfather;
12. the room of Pete; 13. the son of her brother; 14. the daughter
of Ann; 15. the sister of my mother.
X. a) Form questions to which the following statements are the answers, b) Each
sentence states a certain fact. Find some more details about it by asking questions.
