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..pdfCxercise 7.
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Listen and write each word under the appropriate stressed vowel symbol of the words you hear. €.g.
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soft |
buxket |
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/1 / |
bulling |
Subtenant- |
eliminate |
exercise 8. Listen and read the words having different frequencies of usage. Try and sort out the words into the groups of: very frequent and frequent (FflB), faily frequent (FC), rare ones (FD€).
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FC |
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Cxercise 9. Listen to the sentences. Mind the stressed vowels of the underlined words.
1 .1 gave him a rare Swedish stamp to add to his collection. A wheel in general contains an odd number of teeth.
2.My back is itched by the label of this shirt. This terrible event is etched forever on my memory.
3.Thousands of people crammed into the stadium to see the final game. She crumbled
the bread on the table before baking.
4.A clip from Mel Gibson's new movie. Come on everyone, let's give Tommy a clap.
5.How do you think you're going to fit all that stu ff into a car? It's good to have you on staff.
Cxercise 10. listen and repeat the sentences. Pay attention that the same word can have
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O pen air brass band concerts are very p o p u la r. |
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M aybe som e fresh a ir would clarify her thoughts. |
3 . 1 took another glance at my w a tc h . |
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He to o k the tube from a driver. |
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Trade unions were now exercising new areas of in flu e n c e . |
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The birds always return to the sam e wintering areas. |
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Bob studies public relations at the c o lle g e . |
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Her stories are about re la tio n s between people. |
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He c o n tin u e d following her hom e in the evenings. |
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They sat quietly, fo llo w in g the intricacies of the story. |
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In all circumstances the proceedings will rem ain c o n fid e n tia l. |
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You can't judge knowing nothing of the circu m sta nces. |
13.Their w o rk in g environm ent needs im provem ent.
14.He works on issues concerning the environm ent.
Cxerdse 11. listen to the sentences below. Pay attention to the underlined words. The bandage was w ound around the w o und .
The farm was used to produce produce.
The dum p was so full that it had to refuse m ore refuse.
W e m ust polish the Polish furniture.
Cxerdse 12. listen and read the following words with frequent suffixes. Pay attention to them.
eventual |
magnetic |
glorious |
wedding |
gradual |
innocent |
headmaster |
arrangement |
delighted |
magnificent |
researcher |
retirement |
qualified |
psychological |
qualification |
precision |
protective |
philosophical |
installation |
submission |
innovative |
reliable |
invention |
continuity |
sympathetic |
spontaneous |
painting |
dignity |
Cxerdse 13. listen to the text 'The Four Loves' by C.S. Lewis.
Port Three
The |
Song |
of Hiaw atha |
is based |
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legends |
and stories |
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m any |
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American Indian tribes, but especially those |
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the O jibway |
Indians |
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Michigan, |
W isconsin, and |
M innesota. |
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collected by |
Henry |
Rowe |
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Schoolcraft, the |
renow ned |
historian, |
pioneer |
explorer, and |
geologist. |
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superintendent of Indian affairs for M ichigan from |
1836 to 1841. |
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Longfellow |
began Hiaw atha on June |
25, |
1854, he |
com pleted it on |
March 29, |
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1855, and it was published N ovem ber 10,1855 . |
As soon as the poem was published |
its popularity was assured. However, it also was severely criticized as a plagiary of the Finnish epic poem Kalevala. Longfellow m ade no secret of the fact that he had used the m eter of the Kalevala; but as for the legends, he openly gave credit to Schoolcraft in his notes to the poem .
The Song of Hiawatha
Introduction
Should you ask me,
Whence these stories?
Whence these legends and traditions, With the odors of the forest
With the dew and damp of meadows, With the curling smoke of wigwams, With the rushing of great rivers,
With their frequent repetitions', And their wild reverberations As of thunder in the mountains?
I should answer, I should tell you, «From the forests and the prairies, From the great lakes of the Northland, From the land of the Ojibways,
From the land of the Dacotahs,
From the mountains, moors, and fen-lands Where the heron, the Shuh-shuh-gah, Feeds among the reeds and rushes.
I repeat them as I heard them From the lips of Nawadaha,
The musician, the sweet singer.»
Should you ask where Nawadaha
Found these songs so wild and wayward, Found these legends and traditions,
I should answer, I should tell you,
«In the bird's-nests of the forest, In the lodges of the beaver,
In the hoofprint of the bison,
In the eyrv of the eagle!
«All the wild-fowl sang them to him, In the moorlands and the fen-lands, In the melancholy marshes; Chetowaik, the plover, sang them,
Mahng, the loon, the wild-goose, Wawa,
The blue heron, the Shuh-shuh-gah, And the grouse, the Mushkodasa!» If still further you should ask me, Saying, «Who was Nawadaha?
Tell us of this Nawadaha,»
I should answer your inquiries Straightway in such words as follow.
«In the vale of Tawasentha, In the green and silent valley,
By the pleasant water-courses, Dwelt the singer Nawadaha. Round about the Indian village
Spread the meadows and the corn-fields, And beyond them stood the forest,
Stood the groves of singing pine-trees, Green in Summer, white in Winter, Ever sighing, ever singing.
«And the pleasant water-courses,
You could trace them through the valley, By the rushing in the Spring-time,
By the alders in the Summer, By the white fog in the Autumn, By the black line in the Winter;
And beside them dwelt the singer, In the vale of Tawasentha,
In the green and silent valley. «There he sang of Hiawatha, Sang the Song of Hiawatha,
Sang his wondrous birth and being, How he prayed and how be fasted, How he lived, and toiled, and suffered, That the tribes of men might prosper, That he might advance his people!»
Ye who love the haunts of Nature, Love the sunshine of the meadow, Love the shadow of the forest, Love the wind among the branches,
And the rain-shower and the snow-storm, And the rushing of great rivers Through their palisades of pine-trees, And the thunder in the mountains, Whose innumerable echoes
Flap like eagles in their eyries;- Listen to these wild traditions, To this Song of Hiawatha!
Ye who love a nation's legends, Love the ballads of a people, That like voices from afar off
Call to us to pause and listen,
Speak in tones so plain and childlike, Scarcely can the ear distinguish Whether they are sung or spoken;- Listen to this Indian Legend,
To this Song of Hiawatha!
Ye whose hearts are fresh and simple, Who have faith in God and Nature,
Who believe that in all ages
Every human heart is human,
That in even savage bosoms
There are longings, yearnings, strivings For the good they comprehend not, That the feeble hands and helpless, Groping blindly in the darkness,
Touch God's right hand in that darkness And are lifted up and strengthened;- Listen to this simple story,
To this Song of Hiawatha!
Ye, who sometimes, in your rambles Through the green lanes of the country, Where the tangled barberry-bushes Hang their tufts of crimson berries Over stone walls gray with mosses, Pause by some neglected graveyard, For a while to muse, and ponder
On a half-effaced inscription, Written with little skill of song-craft, Homely phrases, but each letter Full of hope and yet of heart-break, Full of all the tender pathos
Of the Here and the Hereafter; Stay and read this rude inscription, Read this Song of Hiawatha!
Unit 2
CD track
Cxercise 1. listen and repeat the words with long vowels.
reasonableness hom ogeneous m achinery
m edieval referee serene
eve
two-term inal transferring expedient
concerned tubular
university breather herm it spurt curb
branching underarm thaler yard
rajah
over-enthusiasm opportunities longitudinal supervisor
newcom er
bloom judo coot
shortsighted proportional
watersports honourable inequality coauthor
talking ought
squa v/
Cxercise 2. listen to the uuords and write the words you hear.
peeps |
heathen |
well-produced |
ultramarine |
revolutionary. |
terse |
competes |
consumers |
emergency |
popularising |
worm |
nurture |
fortitude |
undersurface |
iconography |
loon |
Laverne |
outperform |
internalised |
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tall |
toolkit |
raspberry |
reintroduce |
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yarn |
chorus |
passable |
utilises |
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jaunty |
deepening |
communicate |
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moustache |
permanent |
predominant |
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multiword |
majority |
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conceivable |
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Cxercise 4. listen |
and uurite the |
uuords you hear in a |
column. |
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Cxercise 5. listen and repeat the uuords containing different vouuel sounds.
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/u:/ |
/ 3 7 |
eve |
coot |
terse |
competes |
judo |
spurt |
medieval |
rerouted |
hermit |
conceivable |
enthusiasm |
transferring |
ultramarine |
communicate |
emergency |
reasonableness |
opportunities |
internalized |
/a:/ |
/Э7 |
yard |
jaunty |
rajah |
fortitude |
thaler |
majority |
branching |
proportional |
moustache |
iconography |
passable |
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Cxercise 6. listen again, minding the length and the rhythmical structure of each uuord.
€xercise 7. Listen and write each word under the appropriate stressed vowel symbol of the words you hear.
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/07 |
/37 |
eve |
raspberry |
spurt |
/Э 7 |
/ u : / |
SqUAW |
judtr |
Cxercise 8. listen and read some words which have different frequencies of usage. Try and sort out the words into the following groups: very frequent and frequent (FAB), fairly frequent (FC), rare (FD€).
FAB |
FC |
FDE |
Cxercise 9. Listen to the sentences. Mind the stressed vowels of the underlined words.
1. A b it is the smallest unit of information that can be used by a computer. Waves beat
against the cliffs.
2.She was quietly shelling French beans for her dinner. Are there any bins?
3.I've been on edge ever since I got her letter. Ifelt a sudden urge to scream.
4.Suddenly, the room went dark and somebody screamed. We had to duck our heads to get through the doorway.
5.Reluctantly, I agreed to lend it to her. I've neverlearned how to do mental arithmethic.
CD track
Cxerdse 10. Listen and repeat the sentences. Pay attention to the fact that the same word
can have a stressed or an unstressed position in different phrases.
1. 1can earn m y own m oney.
2. It is tim e to earn your living.
3. The couple exhibit a great joy of life.
4 . 1recollect with jo y that inky pelt.
5.Alice was really rather proud of her career.
6.It will also be a positive career move.
7.The new system gives very exact figures.
8.The exact nature of the problem is less well known.
9.It's a perfect sum m er cover-up.
10. You w ant every detail to be p e rfe c t for you.
11. G radually such awareness becom es second nature.
12. W e have naturally developed an aw areness of the transcendent.
13. They m oved from the city to the agricultural countryside. 14. The plant produces a g ricu ltu ra l m achinery.
Cxerdse 11. Listen to the sentences belouj. Pay attention to the underlined words.
He could lead if he would get the lead out.
The soldier decided to desert his dessert in the desert.
Since there is no tim e like the present, he thought it w as tim e to present the present. A bass was painted on the head of the bass drum .
It was the perfect opportunity to perfect her English.
Cxerdse 12. Listen and read the following words with the suffixes.
Pay attention to them.
glory |
fortunate |
willingness |
author |
hostility |
monetary |
occurrence |
market |
graphics |
heritage |
sovereignty |
religion |
expedition |
greatest |
mystery |
brilliant delightful memory sensible m obility
Cxerdse 13. Listen to the text «Rekindling Old fires».
Cxercise 14. Read the text.
Technologies
O ur technologies give us an illusion of om nipresence m ost of the time. Modernity is built in no small part on the technologies of presence. From the mobile phone to television to air travel, we are em bedded in a web of devices that make us seem to be som ewhere we are not, or that remove us from one place and take us to another with speeds that would have seem ed supernatural to our ancestors.
Every day, m odern technologies inspire gratitude and even wonder. They give us a sense of connection across space and time, paradoxically encouraging us to travel further and more often, to readily m ove across the country or to the other side of the globe for the sake o f new opportunities. How m any partings are eased by «ГН call you when I get there»?
Nearly every m obile phone conversation begins with a phrase that has become curiously ritualistic: «W here are you?» (Eavesdrop on a phone conversation the next time you're on a bus or train, and if the caller isn't asked that question, you'll almost certainly hear her break in and say, «Do you know where I am ?»)
Today there is no easy w ay out of our predicam ent. Cantilevered over the dusty abyss, swaying unsteadily while we cling to our technologies of power, com munication, transportation, and consum ption, w e can only look down with queasy vertigo at the billions who still live in one place, rooted to the Earth.
( By Andy Crouch)
Cxercise 15. Listen to the BBC programme.
Cxercise 1. listen and repeat the aiords. Distinguish between short and long vowels.
tubulovillous - heterogeneous |
bullion - crusade |
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skim pole - tutees |
bush |
- hook |
frill - wheedle |
wood |
- food |
bit - bean |
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redem ption - unburden |
reorganize - approxim ate |
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treshnish - tergal |
block - faw n |
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lend - nerve |
odd - ore |
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else - birth |
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tactual - argue |
reconstruction - self-regarding |
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act - ark |
couplet - starlet |
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dank - aft |
lull - ark |
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Cxercise 2. listen to the words and write them down.
Cxercise 3. listen and repeat the words. Mind the length and the stressed vowel of each word.
pin - bee |
frigates - yeasty |
ink - eagle |
dispelled - encircled |
edge - earth |
gamete - carver |
swell - nerd |
fustian - kaftan |
ash - dark |
solvable - taurine |
bulb - far |
conrtibuted - ameliorate |
chum - fast |
powerserver - interpretable |
hop - lore |
involving - enormous |
throng - awe |
incorporated - accommodated |
hoard - choose |
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