The House That Jack Built
This is the house that Jack built.
This is the corn that lay in the house that Jack built.
This is the rat that ate the corn
that lay in the house that Jack built.
This is the cat that killed the rat, that ate the corn,
that lay in the house that Jack built.
This is the dog that worried the cat,
that killed the rat, that ate the corn,
that lay in the house that Jack built.
This is the cow with the crumpled horn,
that tossed the dog, that worried the cat,
that killed the rat, that ate the corn,
that lay in the house that Jack built.
This is the maiden all for lorn
that milked the cow with the crumpled horn,
that tossed the dog, that worried the cat,
that killed the rat, that ate the corn,
that lay in the house that Jack built.
This is the man, all lattered and torn,
that kissed the maiden all for lorn
that milked the cow with the crumpled horn,
that tossed the dog, that worried the cat,
that killed the rat, that ate the corn,
that lay in the house that Jack built.
This is the priest, all shaven and shorn,
that married the man, all lattered and torn,
that kissed the maiden all for lorn
that milked the cow with the crumpled horn,
that tossed the dog, that worried the cat,
that killed the rat, that ate the corn,
that lay in the house that Jack built.
5.
| A: | Now, look at this, sir – this marvellous seventeenth-century mirror. It’s a thing both of beauty and of worth. |
| B: | Yes, but d’you think… |
| A: | Oh I think you’ll like the price too, sir. |
| B: | Mm. Perhaps so. But to me it seems quite worthless. |
| A: | Oh – you can have complete faith in it! |
| B: | Yes – but can you see your face in it? |
6.
Once a boy who thought himself a grown-up man came to the barber’s shop and asked the barber to shave him. The barber asked him to sit down and soaped his face. Then he left the boy alone. He stood at the door speaking and laughing with another barber. The boy got tired of waiting and shouted, ‘Well what are you leaving me all this time for?’ The barber replied, ‘I’m waiting until your beard grows’.
7.
- Aspiration. Degrees of Aspiration.
- Sound Drills.
- 1. Practise different degrees of aspiration in the following words:
- In a department store
- Leisure
- Loss of Plosion.
- Sound Drills.
- 3. Practise the following fragments of connected speech focusing on loss of plosion.
- Nasal Plosion.
- Sound Drills.
- Duty of the student
- Lateral Plosion
- Sound Drills
- 1. Pronounce the following words and phrases observing lateral plosion.
- 2. Practise lateral plosion in connected speech.
- Fricative Plosion.
- 1. Pronounce the following words and phrases observing close coarticulation of plosive and fricative consonants.
- 2. Practise fricative plosion in connected speech.
- To a False Friend
- Making a Cake
- Alveolar consonants before [0, 8].
- Sound Drills
- 1. Practice the following words and phrases. Be sure to make the sounds [t, d, n, l, s, z] dental before [0] and [8]
- 2. Practise the clusters of alveolar consonants preceding [0, 8] in connected speech.
- Boiled Eggs
- Sonants
- General Remarks
- 1. Modifications of the length of English sonants.
- 2. The syllabic function of the sonants in English
- 3. Devoicing of the sonants.
- Consonant sounds that link words.
- Linking [r]
- Consonantal glides [w] and [j]
- Sound Drills.
- 1. Practise the linking [r], [w] and [j] at the junction of words. Be sure to make the glides [w] and [j] sound very short.
- 2. Practise linking at word-boundaries in connected speech.
- Rain dying out
- Combinations of consonants with [w]
- Sound Drills.
- 1. Practice the following words and phrases observing assimilation in the consonant clusters with [w]
- 2. Practise consonant clusters with [w] in connected speech.
- Consonant clusters with [r]
- Sound Drills.
- 1. Practice the following words and phrases observing assimilation in the consonant clusters with [r]
- 1) Complete devoicing of [r]
- 2) Partial devoicing of [r]
- 3) Double assimilation
- 2. Practise consonant clusters with [r] in connected speech.
- Airport announcements.
- Travelling by train.
- Absence of assimilation in some consonant clusters.
- No assimilation according to the place or manner of articulation of English consonants
- No assimilation according to the work of the vocal cords
- Sound Drills.
- 2. Practise the difficult consonant clusters in the following contexts. Observe absence of assimilation.
- Monday’s child
- The House That Jack Built
- A vacant seat