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^like (h)er. I ^saw (h)im.'

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6. Read the words and the sentences:

A. held

habit

human

hands

hamper

uphill

hard

Harris

behind

B. 1. Here was a new dish unlike the old hackneyed things. 2. He will exploit the human heritage stupidly. 3. I hope Harris and Henry

are happy now that they don't lag behind and nothing hampers them.

T h e L i n k i n g [ r ]

When there is a pause between the two words, the linking [r] should not sound.

7. Read the sentences inserting the linking [r] in the intervocalic position at the junction of words:

1. That'll inspire^Alice.— I'm glad to hearjt. 2. The more^I know her, the more I admire^Ann. — By the way, wherejs she at the

moment? — Either in Asia | or in Africa. 3. It was clear to him that those who are engaged in the task could after all be creative.

Units Two, Three

[ i - i : ]

Mind that Vowel No. 1, [i:], is a diphthongoid: it begins with [i] and then glides to [i:] proper (closer and more front, approaching the

Russian [И]). To achieve that first make the opening between the jaws a bit broader keeping your lips neutral and then spreading them,

thus making the vowel closer.

1. Read the pairs of words and the sentences. Observe their length variants. Make the vowel [i] checked in its shorter length variant:

since — seen

visit — veal

milk — meal

quickly — speaking

exhibiting — immediately irresistible — inconvenience

В.1. His sister has measles. 2. She didn't seem to believe him. 3. He arrived at Riskin Street to see a sick boy who had

caused his mother the inconvenience by falling ill with measles. 4. I candidly mean that for me the name Ernest has always been

irresistible.

[o: -3:]

Mind that though both are mid vowels, [3:] is a m i x e d ( c e n t r a l i z e d ) vowel and [o:] is a b a c k vowel. If your [3:] has, by

mistake, the shade of [0:] add to it the colouring of the Russian [3].

10. Read the pairs of words and the sentences. Observe their length variants:

small — swirl

Walker — worker

talk — Turk

because — to curse

notorious — nervous

importance —earnest

1. 1. John Worthing is a character from the play "The Importance of Being Earnest". 2. He saw her and talked to her. She was a

small girl in a tweed skirt. 3. The doctor was determined to talk to that notorious person about the circumstances.

P a l a t a l i z a t i o n

Avoid the palatalization of the consonants 1 before f r o n t and m i x e d vowels.

The following ways can be of some use: a) first pronounce the same consonant in a word where it is followed by a b a c k vowel

and remember how it sounds; b) then try to preserve the non-pala- talized consonant in the original word where it is followed by a

f r o n t o r m i x e d vowel by making a temporary pause between the consonant and the vowel. When the tongue gets used to the

necessary quality of the consonant, pronounce it without a pause. For example: the word to be pronounced is 'peel'. First pronounce

'paw' (or 'put') and then 'p-eel, p-eel, peel'.