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UNIT 17
Фонетика: sounds [r], [1]
Словообразование: сложные существительные типа housekeeper
Грамматика: перевод форм на -ed; функции строевых слов
Текст: «Pete and Nell go to the pictures»
17.1. Sound right
17.1.1. Listen, look, say:
free
present
three
very
treat
dream
friend
principal
through
sorry
try
dry
arrest
prisoner
throw
quarrel
true
drew
shrill
problem
thread
merry
trade
drive
shrewd
press
with right
for ever
traffic
dress
shrug
prove
with Rob
for instance
trolley
drop
17.1.2. Listen, look, say:
1. Rack you brains.
2. Rora arrived on the stroke of three.
3. Try to reduce rule to practice.
4. There is neither rhyme nor reason in it.
5. Ruth is hungry for flattery.
6. Rod's eyes draw straws.
7. Rolf returned to his parents as right as rain.
8. Who won't be ruled by the rudder must be ruled by the rock.
9. Wben angry count a hundred.
10. Truth is stranger than fiction.
17.1.3. Listen, look, say. Pay attention to the difference between the sounds [1] as long and [r] as wrong.
A. Have you got a lot of relations?
В. Millions.
A. Isn't that rather a lot, Roland? B. Well, I have got severalas you'll probably realize when you get the
bill for the lunch.
II
A. Valerie, it was very wrong of you to be away so long. Mother's very worried.
B. I'm sorry. I'm late. But Larry's car broke down.
A. I don't really like Larry. Why not marry someone olderlike Roland?
B. I don't love Roland, and I do love Larry.
A. But Ronald's got a lot of money.
B. Ronald's a fool.
A. Really, Valerie, you are terrible!
B. Why don't you marry Ronald, Laura?
17.1.4. Listen look, say. Pay attention to the intonation.
17.1.5. Read the dialogues in pairs.
*17.1.6. Try to read the tongue-twister as fast as you can. Around the rugged rocks the ragged rascal ran.
17.2. Word-building
(Compound nouns)
17.2.1. Translate the following compound nouns:
holiday-maker, dog-owner, tea-drinker, gift-giver, New-Yorker, backbencher, two-wheeler, hair-. dresser,
spacetraveller, baby-sitter, sleep-talker, lie-detector.
17.2.2. Finish the sentences using compound nouns:
1. One who saves money is called...
2. One who tells stories is called...
3. One who works full time is called...
4. The apparatus for recording sounds on the tape is called...
5. One belonging to the Third World is called...
17.2.3. Find in the right column the compound nouns corresponding to their definitions in the left column.
1. standing passenger on train,
a) shop-walker,
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