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— Why do you want a new trial?
— On the grounds of newly discovered evidence, your honour.
— What's the nature of it?
— I found out that my client had 400 dollars that I didn't know he had.
Revenge is sweet (proverb)
JUDGE: It seems to me that I have seen you before.
PRISONER: You. have your honour. I taught your daughter singing.
JUDGE: I sentence you to five years of hard labour.
UNIT 10
Фонетика: sound [
]
Словообразование: суффикс прилагательных -аl
Грамматика: прошедшее время Past Perfect
Текст: «Pete's travel to London» (continued)
10.1. Sound right
10.1.1. Listen, look, say:
theme north
fifths three
thought
south hearths throw
thigh month
lenghths thread
thing youth
faithsthrew
thumb truth
Ruth's thrust
thin birth
Smith's throng
10.1.2. Listen, look, say:
1. Think things over.
2. When three Thursdays come together.
3. Thad'11 go through thick and thin.
4. A thousand thanks to you both.
5. You've thrust the thing in my throat.
6. Theo threw the thing into his teeth.
7. Martha's like nothing on earth.
8. Kenneth and Arthur are as thick as thieves.
9. Theo sees through things.
10. Timothy is within a hair's breadth of death.
11. I'll speak the truth and nothing but the truth.
10.1.3. Listen and look. Pay attention to the pronunciation of the sound [
].
A. Date of birth?
B. The third of March, nineteen thirty three.
A. The third of March, nineteen thirty three.
В. I think.
A. You think what?
B. I think it was the third — but perhaps it was the fourth.
A. You think in was either the third or the fourth?
B. No, I don't think it was either the third or the fourth — I know it was either the third or the
fourth and I think it was the third.
A. Mmm. Well anyway, I think you ought to know...
B. Yes?
A. The positions have been taken. We've filled the vacancies already.
B. What, both?
A. Both.
10.1.4. Listen, look, say. Pay attention to the intonation.
10.1.5. Read the dialogues in pairs.
10.1.6. Try to read the tongue-twister as fast as you can:
Theo thrust a thumb through two or three thick straw thatches.
10.2. Word-building
10.2.1. Give Russian equivalents to the following word-combinations: