person (a writer, a composer) you have lately visited, d) Describe the flat you live in
or your friend lives in.
ADDITIONAL PHONETIC EXERCISES
1. Read the exercises several times before the mirror.
2. Record your reading and listen to it, detect your errors.
3. Listen to your fellow-student reading the exercises. Detect his errors in
sounds and intonation and tell him what he must do to get rid of them:
sir) э xsrjrj
-» дзиц) лр дэ vstri:t
straik э Ngnrj
~» lukirj at дэ vpiktfa
Vplei э 'geim 3V pirj vprjrj -» W3:kirj at дэ хргоЫэт
W3:k — wo:k — W3uk W3:l — W D :1 —
W3uld W3:m — wo:m — w3US9m
LABORATORY WORK
I. a) Repeat the sentences after the tape, b) Make them interrogative and
negative.
I. a) Listen to the words, translate them, write them down, transcribe them, b)
Check your spelling and transcription with the key. Correct your mistakes if you
have any.
II. Listen to the questions. Give full answers (affirmative, negative) in the
intervals.
IV. a) Translate the sentences into English, b) Check your sentences with the key.
V. Listen to the disjunctive questions. They are not true to fact. Correct them.
VI. a) Listen to the text "Our Sitting-Room", b) Write down the text, mark the
stresses and tunes. Read it. c) Pick out words, phrases, sentences, which can be used
in the topic "The Flat I Live in", d) Listen to the text again and answer the questions
in the intervals.
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Lesson Ten
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Phonetics: Ассимилятивные сочетания. Интонация восклицательных
предложений. Text: Mr. White Comes Again
Grammar: The Present Indefinite Tense. Общий вопрос в косвенной речи
Предлоги времени
Phonetic Exercise 41
raitirj э vleta
-» veri vwel
ri:dirj э xnnv(a)l
wot xvau3l
brnirj э vp3Uim
э -» swi:t vvois
si:irj эп хорэгэ haus
Vwr>t 'fain xv3:siz
widaut senrj э Nw3:d
ts win э xvikt(a)n
-> wnt iz бэ vwe6a laik беэг in ,wint9 | its -+ kwait vwo:m |
Примечание. Работая над упражнением, обратите внимание на:
1 Отсутствие призвука [к] или lg] в звуке [о] перед гласным.
2 Различие в положении губ при произнесении двугубного [w] и губно-зубного
[v],
3 Оглушение [w] в положении после глухих согласных, например, [kwanj.
3. Фразовое ударение в предложениях.
Phonetic Exercise 42
mai -* redwXpensl
gl«dwts xsi: ju*
jo* -* wi:kwXpnint
ai wr>ntwtu* xa:sk ju*
из* J"o:twXk3ut
hi* haezntwXgi>t it
hiz greitwXtrAbl
Jr ~* dAzntwXti:tf h3*
беэг 3uldwXklt>k
-* nr>twXnau
-* letwmi xsi:
-> raitwXnau
ai -* d3untwXn3u
str>pwXme3n
wi -* d3untwXlaik it
-> leit 3t_vnait
hi -* dAznt^b'n "it
Примечание. Работая над упражнением, обратите внимание на: 1. Потерю
взрыва первым согласным перед другим смычным согласным на стыке слов
2 11аличие латерального и носового взрывов па стыке слов 3. Фразовое ударение
в предложениях.
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T E X T MR. WHITE COMES AGAIN
It is Saturday afternoon. Doctor Sandford is in his study. Betty knocks.
"Come in, please. What is it, Betty?" *"Mr. White wants to see you,
Henry." '"Well, yes. Show him in please." (Mr. White enters.) '"Good
afternoon, doctor." • "Good afternoon, Mr. White."
"I'm terribly sorry to trouble you."
"That's all right. Glad to see you. Sit down, please. What can I do for
you?" ч "Do you receive the Times'?" "Certainly."
"Would you like to have it for the next year?"
"Oh, I forget. We never remember such things in time. Must I pay
anything right now?"
"No you needn't. For the present, you can sign this paper. Here you are."
"Where do I sign?"
"Here, please. Thank you, doctor.
"Well, Mr. White. It's five o'clock. You'll have some tea with us, won't
you?"
"Thank you. I'd be glad to."
"Let's go to the dining-room. This way, please."
VOCABULARY NOTES
to knock стучать
What is it? В чем дело?
Show him in. Просите его сюда.
What can I do for you? Чем могу быть вам полезен?
to receive получать
to remember помнить, вспоминать
in time вовремя
right now сразу же, тотчас же
for the present пока, на этот раз
to sign подписывать. Where do I sign? Где мне подписаться?
Here you are. Вот, пожалуйста! There are several equivalents for the
Russian word «пожалуйста». 1. Please is used when we ask for smth. or about
smth., e. g. Please give me your fountain-pen. Have some more salad, please.
2, Here you are is used in answer to some request. It is said by someone giving
smth. he has been asked for, e. g. Please give me another cup of coffee. —
Here you are. 3. The expression not at all (пожалуйста, не стоит) is an answer
to smb.'s thanks, e. g. Thank you for helping me. — Not at all. That's all right.
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You'll have some tea with us, won't you? He выпьете ли Вы с нами чаю?
This way, please. Сюда, пожалуйста.
TOPICAL VOCABULARY
Months: January, February, March, April, May, June, July, August,
September, October, November, December
The Days o f the Week: Sunday, Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday,
Thursday, Friday, Saturday.
e. g. What's the date today? — Today is Friday, the seventeenth of March
(or March the seventeenth) nineteen eighty-four (Friday, March 17th, 1984).
What day is it? — It is Monday.
CONVERSATIONAL PHRASES
Asking for Information
Question Techniques: I wonder if you could help me. I'd like to know
(where I could get this book). Could you possibly (tell me about it). I wonder
if you could tell me (where he lives). Do you happen to know (when the train
is coming).
Answering Techniques: Well, let me see; Well now; Oh, let me think
for a moment; I'm not sure, I'll just have to find out; I'm glad you asked me
that; That's a very good question; I'm terribly sorry, I really don't know; I've
no idea, I'm afraid.
PHONETIC NOTES
1. Вводное слово well, употребляемое в начале предложения, часто
образует самостоятельную интонационную' группу и произносится
восходящим тоном. Например:
/Well, Mr. White, | it's -> five o\clock.
2. Восклицательные
предложения (exclamations) обычно
произносятся нисходящим тоном при несколько расширенном диапазоне.
Например:
'Certainly!
^ . .
3. Предлог, следующий за последним ударным словом интонационной
группы, имеет полную нередуцированную форму. Например:
