UN|T58 lvlvan ll7 ' -al pair words a Listen and repeat the words. Then Iisten and repeat. b You will hear five words from each minimal pair. For each word, write I for /b/ (sound I) or 2 for lvl (sound 2). EXAMPLE Pair I: I,2,1,2, I ' -al oair sentences c Listen to the minimal pair sentences. d Listen to six of the sentences and write I for lbl (sound l) or 2 for lvl (sound 2). e Sentence stress Listen to the minimal pair sentences again and underline the two strongly stressed words in each sentence (on page 136). f Tick the words a), b) or c) that you hear in the sentences. r a) lift I b) Iived tr 2 a)half I b) halve tr 3 a) fast tr b) vast I 4 a) boat I b) vote tr 5 a) bolts I b) volts tr 6a) safe I b) save tr : - alogue A I a First practise the target sound /v/ in some of the words from the dialogue. Read the words aloud or visit the website to practise. view lived five of have love village valley very Vander lovely Victor living arrived Vivienne b lntonation in statements Intonation usually goes down at the end of a statement. Listen to the intonation in this dialogue. Then practise reading it aloud. Record your voice to compare your intonation and production of the target sound with the recording. i -: VleW vrvtENNE: Has the Vander family lived here for very lgng, Victor? VtCToR: Five and a half yea,ls, Vivienne. We arived on the first of February. vlvlENNE: What a lcruely view you have! VICTOR: Y€s lt's fabulous. vtvtENNE: Lookl You can see the vil,lage down in the ya{ey vlCTOR: Yes. We just lsve living here because of the view. 1,!!Q unq 58 /r,'/ van 4 Stress ancl intonation czz a Listen to this description and draw a down arrow on the last strong stress in each sentence. Check your answers and then practise reading the description aloud. Record your voice to compare your production o, the target sound with the recording. This is a photograph of a fat farmer arriving at a village. The village is in a valley. The farmer's driving a van. It's the seventeenth of November. It's a fine day but it's very cold. Some of the leaves have fallen from the vine in the foreground of the photograph. Remember that intonation often goes down at the end of statements, short answers, WH questions, questions with 'or'. Match these questions and answers, and draw down arrows on the last strong stress. EXAMPLE \&ihat month is it in this phOtograph? NoVember I \Mho's glriving the van? A vine 2 How many leaves have fallen from the vine? 3 V\here do the villagers live? 4 Is the van leaving or alriving? Arrirrin o Five In the valler 5 In the foreground of the plfOtograph, is it a vine or a fir tree? Four 6 Near the village are there four or five fir trees? The farmer c73 Listen to check your answers, then practise saying the questions and answers. 5 Spelling Look back over this unit at words with the target sound, and write what you noticed about how to spell the sound /v/. lwlwindow r59 at do you want for your birthday? atever you want to give me. " atch? A u'allet? um A wig? A n'etsuit? A w'elcome :- ::? . . . er A woolly vest? Some wine? A grape vine? atever. .€ b-' @r -:'get sound /wi - , a First practise the sound /v/ (see page 135). Listen and repeat. b Make your lips round and hard to make the short target sound /w/. Listen and repeat. . c Listen and repeat the two sounds: lvlandlwl. \i- ,, z-< _ L/' i )l t \ ,'i 'nimal pairs Sound I Sound 2 I ? e' JE vest west That's the vest. That's the west. vet wet The dog's vet. The dog's wet. vtne This is my best vine. wtne This is my best wine. veil whale It's a blue veil. lt's a blue whale. -ral pair words - a Listen and repeat the words. , b You will hear five words from each minimal pair. For each word, write for /v/ (sound l) or 2 for lwl (sound 2). EXAMPLE Pair 1: I,l,1,2,2 140 UNIT 59 /w/ window Minimal pair sentences I)4a c Listen to the minimal pair sentences. pan d Listen to five of the sentences and write I for /v/ (sound l) or 2 for lwl (sound 2). D4a e Sentence stress Listen to the minimal pair sentences again and underline the two strongly stressed words in each sentence (on page 139). EXAMPLE This is my best vine. Ds f Tick the words a) or b) that you hear in the sentences. r a) vine I b) wine I 2a)Y I b)we 3 a) veal I b) wheel 4 a) verse |-J b) worse 5 a)veils tr b)whales ! 6a)vet I b)wet I 5 Dialogue $ a first practise the target sound /w/ in words from the dialogue below. - Read the words aloud or visit the website to practise. well what wet walk warm with white wine went walked woods wild sweet William Wednesday wasn't wearing walnut railway quiet quickly twenty squirrels wonderful Winona afterwards uc b Sentence stress Listen to the dialogue, paying attention to the target sound. Then read the dialogue and guess which words are strongly stressed in each sentence. The number in brackets tells you how many words will be strongly stressed in that line. The first line has been done as an exampi. A walk in the woods. VIRGINIA: (2) | saw . . William again on Wednesday, Winona WINoNA: (4) Oh? William again (Winono loughs.) Well, what happenec- VIRCINIA: (a) We went for a lovely walk in the woods. wINONA: (6) Oh? In the wet? Wasn't it very wet on Wednesday? VIRCINIA: (6) lt wos very cold and wet But we were wearing very warm clotf = (a) and we walked quickly to keep warm. WINoNA: (6) ls that the woods next to the railway? lt's not very quiet. VlRclNlA: (6) Yes. But further away from the railway it was very quiet (a) and there were wild squirrels everywhere. We counted (2) twenty squirrels. WINONA: (5) Twenty squinels? And what did you do for lunch? (2) A picnic with the squirrels? tr T UNIT 59 lu'l window 141 VIRCINIA: (5) lt was too wet. Afterwards we went to a restaurant. lt was (6) wvelve o'clock. We had walnut cake and sweet white wine ( I ) lt was wonderful wINONA: (3) So? William again Well ? VIR6tNtA: (l) Well? (Virginio ond Winono lough.) c Check your answers by listening to the dialogue again. Then check in the key. d Practise reading the dialogue aloud. Record your voice to compare your production of the sentence stress and the target sound with the recording. " :ss and intonation a Intonation usually goes down at the end of WH questions and short answers. EXAMPLE \Mhere was it ouiet? In the woods. Match the answers (a-h) to the questions (l-B) about the dialogue. Then Iisten to check and repeat. 1 \Mhere was it quiet? a The squirrels. 2 \Mhat did they watch? b Ever).where. 3 \Mhat did they drink? c To keep warm. 4 lVhere were the squirrels? d In the woods. 5 \Mhy did they walk quickly? e TWelve o'clock. 6 \^Ihat did they eat for lunch? f Went for a walk. 7 \Mhat time did they have lunch? g Walnut cake. 8 \A/hat did William and Virginia do on Wednesday? h Sweet white wine. Practise reading the questions and answers aloud. Record your voice to compare your production of the intonation with the recording b lntonation: old information/new information Notice that intonation in I4lH questions can change when we are talking about old information, e.g. the first time we ask somebody's name, we ask: '\A4rat's your name?' This is new information. But if I then forget the name and ask again, I ask: 'What's your name?' because I am asking about old information that has already been given. The intonation goes up to show that this is something we have already shared. Listen to Winona, later in the day, askingVirginia some questions about information they had shared. \A/here were the squirrels exaeltly? \dhat time did you say you had lunch? \Mhy did you walk quickly? 142 uNlT 59 /rr i rvindorv This is all old information that Virginia and Winona had already shared so the intonation goes up. Now listen to Winona asking for new information. \A/hat did you both talk about? \Mhen did you arrange the meeting? Listen and mark whether these questions are old information or new information. The first two have been done as examples. Mhat did you say you drank? old informotion 2 \Mhat colour did you wear? new informotion 3 What did Victor say? a Why did you walk quickly? 5 What did Victor wear? 6 lVhere did you go with Victor? ru' c Linking /w/ The sound /w/ is used in rapid spoken English to link other sounds. TI , sound /w/ Iinks words ending in /u/ or lol , e.g. who, you, how, go, hel. when the next word begins with a vowel. Listen to the examples then listen to six short interactions where this linking happens. Mark where you could hear linking lw I in l-6 below tltrh ExAMPLES *nl*lr, lwl You_are. Go_away! t; I A: Hello, everybody! How are you? B: Hello, Emma. Oh I'm OK nou I had the flu and felt terrible 2 A: \Mho isn't here? B: Joe isn't. A few others aren't. 3 A: Is Sue OK? Anybody know B: I don't know if Sue is off with about Sue? the flu as well. 4 A: How do I get to a garage? B: You go under a bridge and through a village. 5 A: Do you understand? B: No, I don't really. 6 A: Oh, it's so unfair! You always B: Grow up! get two ice creams! Check your answers in the key. Then practise the interactions with a partner. Record your voices to compare your production of linking /tt with the recording. Look back over this unit at words with the target sound, and write what you noticed about how to spell the sound /w/. 5 Spelling l4t i[I/j/vellow - Did 1'ou use to use a computer when you were vounger? - No.When I was y'oung there didn't use to be any computers. I just used to play with ayo-vo um I haven't played with a yo-yo for years er . HaveT,ou got ayo-yo? - No, just a computer. I Target sound ljl Lrna a First practise the sound /ill (see page 3). Listen and repeat. ur.rH b To make the target sound /j /, begin to make the sound /irl but very quickly move your tongue to make the next sound. Do not touch the roof ofyour mouth with your tongue or you will make another sound like /d3l(see page 124). Listen and repeat. nroc c Listen and repeat both sounds: ld3l and ljl. 2 Minimal pairs i) _ v- t fri votce {r:I*, g tG.!| ^ g'r ! J 3:&16 *U- Sound I Irl:t joke That's a wonderful joke. jam Would you like jam? fess -less, I love you. jeers He sang over the jeers. juice use There's no juice. There's no use. Sound 2 tjt yolk That's a wonderful yam Would you like yam? love you. years He sang over the years. @:, '/ yes Vec I yolk. . -al pair words a Listen and repeat the words. Then Iisten and repeat. b You will hear five words from each minimal pair. For each word, write I for /b/ (sound I) or 2 for lvl (sound. whale. -ral pair words - a Listen and repeat the words. , b You will hear five words from each minimal pair. For each word, write for /v/ (sound l) or 2 for lwl (sound 2). EXAMPLE. Record your voice to compare your intonation and production of the target sound with the recording. i -: VleW vrvtENNE: Has the Vander family lived here for very lgng, Victor? VtCToR: