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distinct. The nucleus should be several times as long as the glide.

2. Read the words and the sentences:

A . show

old

cloak

don't close radio

B . 1. So the following7 week he noticed that the old man's interest was growing. 2. I've slowed it up and I hope the overall pattern of

her progress is quite satisfactory. 3. Margie hopes he won't know how to put it together. It won't be so very bad.

[ai — aiə]

Take care to make the nucleus a f r o n t-retracted open vowel. Make the nucleus long, much longer than the glide. Do not replace

it by Vowel No. 5 [a:], which is an open b a c k - a d v a n c e d vowel. Pronounce the glide indistinctly, like a weak |e], in fact, and make

it very short. Do not stress it.

When pronouncing the combination [ai] + [a] make the nucleus the strongest element and the glide the weakest one, weaker than

the vowel [a].

3. Read the pairs of words and the sentences:

A . white — wire

Friday — prior

writer — riot

7 Do not insert the unnecessary [w] when the diphthong is followed by a vowel as in this word.

while — violent

to tie — entirely

eyes — Irish

B . 1 . " I t ' s an entirely new idea," said the writer. 2. "It's not quite her fault," he said quietly, in a tired tone. 3. The old man was prior in buying the things.

[au — аiə]

About the nucleus of the diphthong see the instructions given in Ex. 3: it is almost the same as in the diphthong [ai]. Pronounce the

glide indistinctly, like a weak [o], and make it very short. Do not stress it.

When pronouncing the combination [au] + [a] make the nucleus the strongest element and the glide the weakest one, weaker than

the vowel [a]. Do not insert the unnecessary [w] between the glide and [a]. To avoid [w] do not let the upper and the lower lips be

brought together.

[au — аuə]

About the nucleus of the diphthong see the instructions given in Ex. 3: it is almost the same as in the diphthong [ai]. Pronounce the

glide indistinctly, like a weak [o], and make it very short. Do not stress it.

When pronouncing the combination [au] + [a] make the nucleus the strongest element and the glide the weakest one, weaker than

the vowel [a]. Do not insert the unnecessary [w] between the glide and [a]. To avoid [w] do not let the upper and the lower lips be

brought together.

4. Read the pairs of words and the sentences:

6. how — our

7. town — tower

8. now — towel

9. south — sour

10. thousand — shower

11. b.1. In the south milk quickly gets sour. 2. How I detest that school of ours! 3. Thousand of our people have seen the tower in the

south. 4. Now, what about taking a shower? — Yes. Let me fetch our towel.

[tʃ , dʒ]

Let the second element follow the first immediately tcf prevent you from the mistake of detaching the first element from the second.

Strain the muscles of the tongue.

Mind that both affricates are always articulated with a front secondary focus; that is they are somewhat palatal in any position in the

word: at the beginning, in the middle and at the end. But do not raise the middle of the tongue too high so as not to replace it by the