Study the rules for the following vowels and practice them in proverbs.

a) / I / Graphical rules: 1. The letters “i”, “y” in stressed closed syllables - sit, window, myth, syllable; 2. y, ey when unstressed - city, money; 3. ai, ay when unstressed - fountain, mountain, holiday, Sunday; 4. The letter “e” in prefixes - before, begin decide. Rare Spellings: busy, foreign, women, coffee). Proverbs and sayings: 1. As fit as a fiddle. 2. As thick as thieves. 3. As thin as a stick. 4. As busy as a bee. 5. Little pitches have big ears.

b) / ə / Graphical rules: 1. The letter “a” in prefixes - about, asleep 2. in suffixes “er” – teacher, “or” – doctor, “ar” – cellar, “our” – neighbour, “ous” – famous; 3. “a”, “o”, “u” when unstressed - sofa, atom, column. Proverbs and Sayings: 1. Better late than never but better never late. 2. Hammer and tongs. 3. Like teacher like pupils. 4. Experience is the mother of wisdom.

c) / i: / Graphical rules : 1. e in open and historically open syllables - be, meter, theme; 2. the diagraphs: ee - meet, see; ea - meat, seat; ie - piece, field; ei - ceiling; Rare Spellings: people, key, breathe, wreath. Proverbs and sayings: 1. A friend in need is a friend indeed. 2. No sweet without some sweat. 3. Extremes meet. 4. Honey is sweet but the bee stings.

d) / з: / Graphical rules: 1. “e”, “i”, “u”, “y” followed by “r” when stressed - term, service; bird, sir; nurse, fur; Myrtle. 2. “ear” + consonant - earth, heard ( except: heart, hearth). 3. wor + consonant - worn, worst. Proverbs and Sayings: 1. One good turn deserves another. 2. The early bird catches the worm. 3. First come, first served. 4. Practice makes perfect.

Find the Ukrainian equivalents for the proverbs, choose 2-3 of them to explain.

E.g.“as fit as a fiddle” describes a person who is in good health

Read the following words and transcribe them.

a)mint, pity, Friday, honey, lady, village, lady, silly, baby, hockey, lonely, honey, birthday;

b) compare, occupation, autumn, accompany, favour, various, occur, neither, dangerous;

c) deed, feature, bead, weak, eager, niece, breeze, believe, receive, heat;

d) murky, first, turtle, firmly, servant, world, worm, worse, purred, certain, workable.

5. Read the sentences, define their types, use the suitable nuclear tone:

1) Would you close the door?

2) Where did he go?

3) Were you working all day long?

4) Stop doing this.

5) Can you come up here?

6) Your sister surely likes cats, doesn’t she?

7) He never knew words, rules, exclusions and other grammar details.

8) Did he bring books or magazines?

9) How could you all those fruit and vegetables?

10) When will they call you?

11) Give me that book, please.

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Listen to the text, divide the sentences into syntagms. Learn the text by heart.	\|	Listen to the poem, put stress-tone marks. Mind the pronunciation of the enumeration. Learn the poem by heart.

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