Silent letter. Read the rhyme according to the reading rules.

Christmas is a lovely day,

All people sing

And voices ring

And everyone is gay,

Because it is a Christmas Day!

Activity 5. Read the proverbs according to the reading rules.

Can you find Russian versions for them?

Activity 6. Read the information about Chris and say if you share his interests or not.

1. I like to listen to jazz. 2. I don’t like being in debt to anyone. 3. No doubt I enjoy mountain climbing. 4. My wish is to visit English castles. 5. Christmas is my favourite holiday. 6. I am fond of psychology.

7. I like raspberry very much. 8. I am a social climber. 9. My sister and I are like cheese and chalk. 10. I hate bustling places.

Read the lines. Choose the most attractive idea for you. Explain why.

The ABC of Happiness

Aspire to reach your potent

Believe in yourself

Create a good life

Dream about what you might become

Exercise frequently

First think than speak

Glorify the creative spirit

Humour yourself and others

Imagine great things

Joyfully live each day

Kindly help others

Love one another

Meditate daily

Nurture the environment

Organization is the key to harmony

Praise performance well done

Quibbling is not for you

Regulate your behaviour

Smile often

Think rationally

Understand yourself

Value life

Work for the common good

X-ray and carefully examine problems

Yearn to improve

Zestfully pursue happiness.

PART II

A. Read the poem, find the reading rules of words and explain them.

B. Find the words having pronunciation not according to the reading rules.

THE CHAOS

Dearest creature in creation,

Study English pronunciation.

I will teach you in my verse

Sounds like corpse, corps, horse,

and worse.

I will keep you, Suzy, busy,

Make your head with heat grow dizzy.

Tear in eye, your dress will tear.

So shall I! Oh hear my prayer.

Just compare heart, beard,

and heard,

Dies and diet, lord and word,

Sword and sward, retain and Britain.

(Mind the latter, how it's written)

Now I surely will not plague you

With such words as plaque and ague.

But be careful how you speak:

Say break and steak, but bleak

and streak:

Cloven, oven, how and low,

Script, receipt, show, poem, and toe.

Hear me say, devoid of trickery,

Daughter, laughter, and Terpsichore,

Typhoid, measles, topsails, aisles,

Exiles, similes, and reviles;

Scholar, vicar, and cigar,

Solar, mica, war and far;

One, anemone, Balmoral,

Kitchen, lichen, laundry, laurel

Gertrude, German, wind and mind,

Scene, Melpomene, mankind.

Billet does not rhyme with ballet, Bouquet, wallet, mallet, chalet.

Blood and flood are not like food.

Nor is mould like should and would.

Viscous, viscount, load and broad,

Toward, to forward, to reward.

And your pronunciation's OK

When you correctly say croquet.

Rounded, wounded, grieve and sieve,

Friend and fiend, alive and live.

Ivy, privy, famous clamour,

And enamour, rhyme with hammer

River, rival, tomb, bomb, comb,

Doll and roll and some and home.

Stranger does not rhyme with anger,

Neither does devour with clangour.

Souls but foul, haunt but aunt,

Font, front, wont, want, grand,

and grant,

Shoes, goes, does. Now first say finger,

And then singer, ginger, linger,

Real, zeal, mauve, gauze, gouge

and gauge,

Marriage, foliage, mirage, and age.

Query does not rhyme with very,

Nor does fury sound like bury.

Dost, lost, post and doth, cloth, loath.

Job, knob, bosom, transom, oath.

Though the difference seems little,

We say actual but victual.

Refer does not rhyme with deafer.

Feoffer does, and zephyr, heifer.

Mint, pint, senate and sedate:

Dull, bull, and George ate late.

Scenic, Arabic, Pacific,

Science, conscience, scientific.

Liberty, library, heave and heaven,

Rachel, ache, moustache, eleven.

We say hallowed, but allowed,

People, leopard, towed, but vowed.

Mark the difference, moreover,

Between mover, cover clover;

Leeches, breeches, wise, precise,

Chalice, but police and lice;

Camel, constable, unstable,

Principle, disciple, label.

Petal, panel, and canal,

Wait, surprise, plait, promise, pal.

Worm and storm, chaise, chaos, chair,

Senator, spectator, mayor

Tour, but our succour, four.

Gas, alas, and Arkansas.

Sea, idea, Korea, area,

Psalm, Maria, but malaria.

Youth, south, southern, cleanse

and clean.

Doctrine, turpentine, marine.

Compare alien with Italian.

Dandelion and battalion.

Sally with ally, yea, ye, Eye, I, ay, aye, whey, and key.

Say aver, but ever, fever,

Neither, leisure, skein, deceiver Heron, granary, canary.

Crevice and device and aerie.

Face, but preface, not efface.

Phlegm, phlegmatic, ass. glass, bass.

Large, but target, gin, give, verging.

Ought, out. joust and scour, scourging.

Ear, but earn and wear and tear

Do not rhyme with here but ere.

Seven is right, but so is even,

Hyphen, roughen, nephew Stephen,

Monkey, donkey, Turk and jerk,

Ask, grasp, wasp, and cork and work.

Pronunciation - think of Psyche!

is a paling stout and spikey?

Won't it make you lose your wits,

Writing greats and saying grits?

lt's a dark abyss or tunnel:

Strewn with stone, stowed,

solace, gunwale,

slington and Isle of Wight,

Housewife, verdict and indict.

Finally, which rhymes with enough –

Though, through, plough, or dough,

or cough?

Hiccough has the sound of cup.

My advice is to give up!!!