学前教育英语 (5)

Unit 5 Building Reading Skills

Part I Pronunciation

Task 1 Look at the mirror and read aloud the phonemes /au/, /əu/, /iə/, /ɛə/ and /uə/. Compare the shape of your mouth in the mirror with that in the picture and adjust it if necessary. Gather as many words as you can with these phonemes and fill them in the corresponding blanks. Then, read the words after the recording.

Example: now noun shout Example: load low home

_____how house__________ ______loaf hoe___________

_____louder mouse ____ ______home hope__________

_____cow gown__________ _______know note_________

_____howl county_________ _______throw toast________

_____south crowd ____ _______notice over________

Example: fear pierce really

______fierce piercing ___

______really near _______

______appear superior_______

______pier fearless _____

______serious ear _________

Example: chair dare scary Example: tour cruel sure

_____scare scarce__________ ________tourist cure

_____ dairy pair _______curious sure______

_____wear where________ _______cruelty furious

_____fair square _______lure poor _____

_____repair fare ________usually endure ____

Task 2 Please listen carefully and pay special attention to the vowels /au/, /əu/, /iə/, /ɛə/ and /uə/. You will hear one word from each of the following word pairs. Circle the one you hear and check your answers. Then, read aloud all the words.

1. ear air

2. out oat

3. hair here

4. fear fare

5. roll real

6. pier pear

7. loud load

8. cure care

9. sure share 10. tour tear 11. count coat

12. brown

13. cruel clear 14. beer bear

15. cheer chair

16. share sheer

17. dear dare

18. lure Lear

19. bow bowl

20. know Tasks 3 Please listen to the recording three times and write down the sentences you hear, marking out the linking of the glide from the final vowel in one word to the initial vowel in the next. Then, read them aloud in pairs.

Example: Yes, they ˆare.

1. She’s myˆaunt.

2. Iˆam Chinese.

3. MayˆI open the door?

4. He won’t carryˆit.

5. Heˆis very nice to me.

6. She loves to studyˆEnglish.

7. Sorry, could you please sayˆit again?

8. Howˆand why did you come here?

9. It’ll take you threeˆhours to walk there.

10. The question is tooˆeasy for him toˆanswer.

Task 4 Please listen to the following conversations carefully and mark out the rise-fall tones. Then, practice reading them and tell the underlying meaning of the rise-fall tone in each sentence.

Example: A: I got two thousand dollars yesterday.

B: Two thousand! 1. A: Are you sure? B: Certainly. 你肯定吗？当然。

2. A: Did you catch it? B: Yes. 你听到了吗？听到了呀。

3. A: Have you got it? B: Yeah. 你懂了吗？

4. A: I can’t do it. B: You’re not trying.

我做不了。你怎么连试都不试。 5. A: He passed the exam. B: Did he! 他通过考试了。 是吗？！

6. A: May I use your car? B: Do. 我可以用你的车吗？ 用吧。

7. A: Why don’t you love it? B: I do.

你为什么不爱它？我爱啊。 8. A: Can I have a word with you? B: By all means. 可以和你谈谈吗？那有什么不行。

9. A: I’m worried about him. B: What’s it got to do with you? 我担心他。跟你有什么关系！ 10. A: You can’t blame her, can you? B: No, I can’t.

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