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1.
What was the Denhams' house like?
2.
What was there in front of the building?
3.
What did Clara choose, the bell or the brass ring?
4.
Who opened the door?
5.
Was Clara left alone on the doorstep or did the man let her in?
6.
What was the hall like?
7.
Where did Clelia take Clara?
8.
Why was Clara staggered and bewitched mClelia's room?
9.
Where did the girls go after half an hour?
10.
Who was there in the drawing room?
11.
What did Clara see in the drawing room?
12.
What impression did the drawing room produce upon Clara?
13.
Was Clara listening to the talk? Why?
14.
How did Clara make her discovery?
15.
Did Clara's discovery help her somehow or not?
Phonetic Text Drills
0 Exercise 1
Transcribe and pronounce correctly the words from the text.
Courtyard, elaborate, wrought iron, balding, diagonal, vaguely, scheme, quantity, bewitched, engrossed,
chandelier, assess, dimension, intricately, mythological, beige, fabric, to review, forthcoming, to decipher, to
aggrieve, to assume.
0 Exercise 2
Pronounce the words or phases where the following clusters occur.
1. consonant + w
It was, squared, and white, covered with, that way, invented one, lined with, and walls, was wooden.
2. plosive + 1
Middle, marble, instantly, almost lost, and letters, tables, glimpse, rectangle, mantelpiece, eagle, that
looked, little.
3. plosive + m/n
Gulped nervously, and nodded, had never seen, could not think, did not feel, good many, but most of it,
had known, told me.
4. plosive + fricative
Get her, and he, had shutters, glad you came, could have been, but she, looked hard, stirred her cup,
occupant for, could hear, that she, directed her, and help, could she.
5. plosive + plosive
Paved courtyard, deep purple, had just seen, white door, but concealed, flowered cover, and postcards,
adult decorations, great quantity, ancient toys, sit down, coloured carpet, could compare, kept quiet.
0 Exercise 3
Pronounce after the announcer and explain what kind of false assimilation may occur in the phrases
below.
1. Was semi-detached, was separated, was painted, was tiled, was hard, was staggered, was she.
2. Of which, of tea, of furniture, of pale yellow, of somehow familiar, of course, of her discovery.
0 Exercise 4
Transcribe and intone the following sentences from the text. Note that the intonation pattern of sentences,
starting with "there" is similar to the pattern of predicative statements. Explain the use of the intonation
marks.
1. There was 'also a'\bell | and 'Clara 'chose the \bell ||
2. There \was 'also | she 'vaguely \noted | in 'one 'comer a pi\ano | and the 'windows had 'shutters of a
kind that she had 'never 'seen in \England ||
3. There were a 'good 'many \books in the 'room | 'one 'wall was \lined ,with them | and they 'lay in 'heaps
on 'chairs and on the \floor ||
EXERCISES
Exercise 1
Work with the text and say what we call:
— large pieces of cloth that we put as a decoration on a wall or a curtain over a window;