Provebs and Saings. /s/:No man is wise at all times

/s/: No man is wise at all times. No man can serve two masters.

Nothing succeeds like success.

Soft skin, silky voice, sleepy eyes, sort of slow, sexy smile.

Six little mice sat down to spin; pussy passed by and she peeped in.

The sixth sheep of the sixth sheikh is sick.

Упражнение 5.

Прочитайте вслух и запишите на магнитофон следующие предложения. Обратите внимание на разницу в звучании английского окончания -s.

1. Doris hate s doing the laundry. She realise s that five weeks have passed since her last trip to the Laundromat.

2. There are pile s of clothe s in the closet s, the sheet s and towel s are dirty, she’s been wearing the same pair of trousers for seven day s, and she doesn’t have any clean stocking s or blouse s left.

3. Doris think s about it while she watche s one of her favourite TV show s.

4. She wishe s she didn’t have to do such chore s. Then she open s a magazine, turn s the page s, and trie s to study.

5. The phone ring s: one of Doris’ s friend s remind s her about Dolly’ s party tonight.

6. She can’t go to the party unless she washe s one of her dresse s.

7. Doris stuff s all her clothe s into bag s, strip s the bed and pull s the pillowcase s off the pillow s.

8. She goe s through the apartment s, picking up everything in sight, grab s two boxe s of detergent, and her key s, and close s the door behind her.

9. She arrive s at the laundromat, carrie s in all her belonging s, and searche s for some empty machine s.

Phoneme /e/ — open-mid ( close-mid) frontunrounded vowel (lax),
first element of English diphthongs /eı, e\/.

Graphic Equivalents of the /e/ Phoneme

e b e dlam, cl e mency, e lement, e xercise, f e tch, E lba, L e banon,
E ssex

a a ny, a nything, m a ny, a te, Th a mes

ea d ea f, d ea lt, f ea ther, d ea dline, w ea ther, br ea kfast, j ea lous,
L ea mington

ie fr ie nd, fr ie ndless, fr ie ndship

Упражнение А5.

/e/

ted	en	sed — set
ded	ten	led — let
led	tenz	ded — det
sed	tens	sez — sens
zed	end

Provebs and Saings

/e/: They said they'd bury the treasure under the dead elm — you remember, by the bend in the fence.

H er friends said she’d better not get a red wedding dress.

He smells best that smells of nothing.

Упражнение А6.

/ı/ — /e/

dıd — ded sıns — sens

lıd — led tıl — tel

tın — ten lıt — let

Упражнение 6.

Прочитайте предложения, демонстрируя разницу в звучании гласных /eı/ и /e/ в позиции перед глухими согласными.

/eı/ /e/

1. Did Barbara taste it? Did Barbara test it?

2. The rain made Martha wait. The rain made Martha wet.

3. Where’s the paper? Where’s the pepper?

4. Arthur has a lot of dates. Arthur has a lot of debts.

5. Let Arnold see you later. Let Arnold see your letter.

Слабое и сильное примыкание гласных

Напряженные (tense) гласные /i, з, α, ¿, u/ слабо примыкают к последующему согласному звуку, для ненапряженных (lax) гласных /ı, e, æ, \, Ã,, / характерно сильное примыкание к согласному. В звучащей речи разница в качестве примыкания выражается в различном акустическом впечатлении и, прежде всего, в разной ритмике слов.

Упражнение А7.

Произнесите слова, учитывая разницу в примыкании и рит-мике слов.

Word Rhythm

′i/zi	′dıt/i	′en/i
′ni/di	′lıl/i	′ned/i
′si/di	′sıs/i	′ted/i
	′bız/i	′bes/i
	′lın/ıt	′nes/i
	′nıt/ıd

Phoneme /æ/ — open frontunrounded vowel, lax.