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1.
What did Monica look for? Did she want to find a job as a "Daily" or a "Liver-in"?
2.
Why did she think that Miss Cattermole refrained from telling the agency what she thought of
her?
3.
Who offered the girl the job at a flat twice a week?
4.
What was Monica to do at Mrs. Robertson's?
5.
What did Mrs. Robertson leave for the girl at her place?
6.
How long did it take her to do the washing?
7.
Did she have to combine washing with some other job?
8.
What did Monica do after she had hung out the clothes?
9.
Did Mrs. Robertson find Monica reading a book in the drawing-
room?
10. How did Monica and Mrs. Robertson part?
11. What sort of job was Monica offered by Miss Faulkener?
12. What did Miss Faulkener and her kitchen look like?
13. How did Monica sweep up the cinders?
14. What happened while she was sweeping up the cinders?
15. Did the dirt come off all right?
16. Why did the cooking take her twice as long as it should have?
17. What did the kitchen look like at the end of the day?
18. Did the girl like the idea of leaving everything undone till the next day?
19. How did Monica feel when she arrived home?
Phonetic Text Drills
0 Exercise 1
Transcribe and pronounce correctly the words from the text.
Agency, to assure, domesticated, ragged, corset, nauseating, to squeeze, to wander, to tweak, to scorch,
mishap, to fuse, tacit, undaunted, employer, content, strident, to bolt, overall, apron, inhumanely, cinder,
gingerly, tedious, to chase, to clutter, unison, to waft, filthy, reverse, magnitude, coma, to burrow, yielding.
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Exercise 2
Pronounce the words or phrases where the following clusters occur.
1. plosive + m
offered me, let me, consisted mainly, told me, it made me, doesn't matter, took myself, good morning.
2. plosive/s + w
world's worst, had wandered, tweaking, between, sleep well, swept, quite, twice, cluttered up with.
3. plosive + plosive
odd jobs, ragged pairs, horrid condition, dropped, had just, it gave, terrific burst, might go, bolted down,
good time, dustpan.
4. plosive + 1
had left, diligently, people, reluctantly, clock, distinctly, table, little, listlessly.
5. plosive + r
address, attractive, grubby, and rather, bridge, trifling, electric, agreement, practical, groomed, aprons,
trail, broken, trouble, grimy.
0 Exercise 3
Pronounce correctly and say what kind of false assimilation one should avoid in the phrases below.
Was thoroughly, was still, is something, wants someone, is that, was thankfullness.
0 Exercise 4
Transcribe the phrases and mark phonetic phenomena in them.
I was the world's worst ironer ...
Its strident note terrified me right out of bed ...
... but it seemed quite simple.
0 Exercise 5
Intone the sentences, addressed to someone. Practise their ponunciation. Make up your own examples.
Good \morning, | ,Monica, | I 'hope you are 'getting 'on all \right. ||
^Goodness, | ,Monica, | I 'thought you'd 'gone
\
hours a,go. ||
EXERCISES
Exercise 1