Spring Rain Rain, rain, rain, April rain,
You are feeding seeds and grain,
You are raising plants and crops
With your gaily sparkling drops.
²Activity 7. Listen to the speaker and imitate the tongue twisters.
Learn one of them by heart.
The rain in Spain stays mainly in the plain.
Jane bakes eight cakes.
[ ai ]
²Activity 1. Listen and repeat the words paying attention to the sound [e].
A.
Bite-kitw-five-quite-side-knife-ice-nice-dice-rice-price-size-tie
by-my-fly-sky-cry-fry-spy-try-buy-guy
tight-right-flight-fight-sight-light-might-bright-night-knight
kind-find-mind
wild
either-neither
July-deny-comply-clarify-terrify-supply
B.
buy – buy back – buyer – buyout wild – wildebeest – wilderness – wildfire
cry – outcry – crybaby – crying light – skylight – lighter – lighthouse
tie – necktie – tiebreak – tie-dyed blind – snow-blind – blindness – blind trust
fly – gadfly – flyer – fly fishing sight – eyesight – sightless – sightseeing
tile – reptile – tiled – tiling isle – island – islander – isolated island
mild – mildly – mild cheese wide – world-wide – widely – widen
Activity 2. Contrasting Sound Practice
Listen and repeat the words paying attention to the sounds.
[ai] [ i ]
mild – milk shy – shift sine – sin nine – nimble
kind – king pipe – pip tie – trig rhyme – rhythm
knight – knit price – prince tight – tick wine – win
night – nit prime – primp time – tilt wind(n) – wind(v)
Activity 3. Practice the reading of the words.
-ight
fright – frighten – frightened – frighteners – frightful
right – right angle – right click – right hand – Mr. Right
tight – tighten – tight-fitting – tights
night – nightmare – nightdress – nightfall
knight – knighthood – knightly – Knightsbridge
-ild -ind
wild – mild – mildly – child – childish
kind – find – rind – bind – blind – grind – behind – mind – remind
Activity 4. Read the proverbs according to the reading rules.
Activity 5. Read the sentences. Mind the reading rules.
The climate is mild on this island.
Out of sight, out of mind.
I’d like you to write your reply
on Friday.
Time flies.
My child is bright.
I had a white night.
A red sky at night, it will be delight.
What’s the price and the size of
that nice bright tie?
Neither fish nor flesh.
I’m twice your size, Lisa.
Try my pie, Ira.
That guy might buy my cycle.
I quite like Mike.
Married in white, you have chosen
just right.
²Activity 6. Read the rhymes. Mind the sound [ai].
[ au ]
BUT! [ u ] BUT! [כu]
²Activity 1. Listen and repeat the words paying attention to the sound [au].
A.
out-lout-loud-rout-proud-cloud-shout-mouth-south-blouse-house-louse-mouse-rouse-trousers-amount-hound-mound-pound-round-sound
owe-owl-fowl-jowl-how-cow-now-gown-crown-brown-mown-town
B.
town – downtown – town centre – town house – townsfolk – township
now – right now – not now – nowadays – just now
round – roundabout – round down – round out – round-table – round-trip
sound – sound card – sound effects – soundless – soundtrack
mouth – mouthful – mouthwash – mouthwatering – mouthy
ground – underground – ground floor – ground level – groundless
crown – crowned head – crowning glory – crown prince – crown princess
Activity 2. Contrasting Sound Practice
Listen and repeat the words paying attention to the sounds.
A. [ au ] [כu]
crown – crow doubt – dome loud – low
row – row foul – folklore pound – prone
gown – goal mountain – motor round – rose
sound – sow gouge – go out – over
shout – show growl – grow pounce – poultry
clown – own how – hole now – know
B. [ au ] [כu] [כ:]
down – dough – door mouth – most – more
lounge – low – law roust – roast – roar
town – tone – tore mouth – motion – more
house – host – horse noun – known – nor
hound – hone – horn oust – own – ought
south – soap – saw cow – cope – core
power – pose – pause stout – stone – store
Activity 3. Read the proverbs according to the reading rules.
Can you find Russian versions for them?
Activity 4. Read the sentences. Mind the reading rules.
Our townhouse has a brown mouse.
We found our gowns downtown.
Are we allowed to speak aloud?
Mr. Brown was not allowed to go out of the house.
His proposal didn’t arouse my interest.
I found a pound on the ground.
The trousers were brown and the blouses were dark brown.
This part of the town was overcrowded.
His house was in the downtown.
Without doubt.
Activity 5. Read the poem. Mind the sound [au].