Monday 27th May

Re-cap of Simple Present vs Present Continuous:

Form

Simple Present	Present Progressive
infinitive (3rd person singular: infinitive + 's') I speak you speak he / she / it speaks we speak they speak	form of 'be' and verb + ing   I am speaking you are speaking he / she / it is speaking we are speaking they are speaking
Exceptions
Exceptions when adding 's' : For can, may, might, must, do not add s. Example: he can, she may, it must After o, ch, sh or s, add es. Example: do - he does, wash - she washes After a consonant, the final consonant ybecomes ie. (but: not after a vowel) Example: worry - he worries but: play - he plays	Exceptions when adding 'ing' : Silent e is dropped. (but: does not apply for -ee) Example: come - coming but: agree - agreeing After a short, stressed vowel, the final consonant is doubled. Example: sit - sitting After a vowel, the final consonant l is doubled in British English (but not in American English). Example: travel - travelling (British English) but: traveling (American English) Final ie becomes y. Example: lie - lying

Use

in general (regularly, often, never) Colin plays football every Tuesday. present actions happening one after another First Colin plays football, then he watches TV.	right now Look! Colin is playing football now. also for several actions happening at the same time Colin is playing football and Anne is watching.
Signal words
always every ... often normally usually sometimes seldom never first then	at the moment at this moment today now right now Listen! Look!

Ex 1) Put the verbs into the correct tense (simple present or present progressive).

1. Look! He (leave)  the house.
2. Quiet please! I (write)  a test.
3. She usually (walk)  to school.
4. But look! Today she (go)  by bike.
5. Every Sunday we (go)  to see my grandparents.
6. He often (go)  to the cinema.
7. We (play)  Monopoly at the moment.
8. The child seldom (cry) .
9. I (not / do)  anything at the moment.
10. (watch / he)  the news regularly?

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Sounds in the English Language

5 Short-Vowel Sounds

short /a/ in apple

short /e/ in elephant

short /i/ in igloo

short /o/ in octopus

short /u/ in umbrella

6 Long-Vowel Sounds

long /a/ in cake

long /e/ in feet

long /i/ in pie

long /o/ in boat

long /u/ (yoo) in mule

long /oo/ in flew

18 Consonant Sounds

/b/ in bat

/k/ in cat and kite

/d/ in dog

/f/ in fan

/g/ in goat

/h/ in hat

/j/ in jam

/l/ in lip

/m/ in map

/n/ in nest

/p/ in pig

/r/ in rat

/s/ in sun

/t/ in top

/v/ in van

/w/ in wig

/y/ in yell

/z/ in zip

7 Digraphs

/ch/ in chin

/sh/ in ship

unvoiced /th/ in thin

voiced /th/ in this

/hw/ in whip *

/ng/ in sing

/nk/ in sink

* (wh is pronounced /w/ in some areas)

3 r-Controlled Vowels

/ur/ in fern, bird, and hurt

/ar/ in park      

/or/ in fork

Diphthongs

/oi/ in oil and boy

/ow/ in owl and ouch

/oo/ in cook and pull

Special Sounds

/aw/ in jaw and haul

/zh/ in television

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Minimal Pairs:

Sit/Seat

Wet/Wait

Bat/But

So/Saw

Bad/Bed

Fast/First

Berry/Very

Pie/Buy

Thin/Thing

Alive/Arrive

Catch/Cat

Sea/She

Fan/Van

Fat/Hat

Sing/Thing

With/Whizz

Page/Pays

Bad/Badge

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Target pair:  

Click on the audio symbol and listen to the following pairs of words. When you have listened, try repeating the words yourself.

• awning earning
• call curl
• caught curt
• consort concert
• curse coarse
• export expert
• form firm
• lawn learn
• pawed purred
• shorts shirts
• walk work

Click on the audio symbol and listen to the sentences. Choose which of the target words has been used in sentence. Click on the arrow next to "Text" to see the text read.

yawning earning
Text:                 --                        The teacher caught the student yawning during class.            

call curl
Text:                 --                        Please curl this up and don't mention it ever again.            

caught curt
Text:                 --                        The teacher was curt with the police.            

consort concert
Text:                 --                        The concert ended in harmony.            

curse coarse
Text:                 --                        His coarse language doesn't appeal to everybody.            

export expert
Text:                 --                        Our export managers are thinking of new possibilities.            

form firm
Text:                 --                        I was firm with my son.            

lawn learn
Text:                 --                        I'm going out on the lawn.            

pawed purred
Text:                 --                        My pet purred as she lay on the ground.            

shorts shirts
Text:                 --                        These shorts need to be cleaned.            

walk work
Text:                 --                        I work in the park.            

Target pair:  

Click on the audio symbol and listen to the following pairs of words. When you have listened, try repeating the words yourself.

• blessed blast
• commended commanded
• deft daft
• left laughed
• lest last
• leather lather
• pest passed
• vest vast

Click on the audio symbol and listen to the sentences. Choose which of the target words has been used in sentence. Click on the arrow next to "Text" to see the text read.

blessed blast
Text:                 --                        The pastor blast his pupils for their sins.            

commended commanded
Text:                 --                        General Kraft commended the soldiers for their bravery.            

deft daft
Text:                 --                        His deft use of the sword saved him from being killed.            

left laughed
Text:                 --                        I laughed all the way home.            

lest last
Text:                 --                        I'd better explain lest you forget again.            

leather lather
Text:                 --                        The leather is almost perfectly white.            

pest passed
Text:                 --                        The rat passed the experiment.            

vest vast
Text:                 --                        That is a beautiful new vest you have on.            

Target pair:  

Click on the audio symbol and listen to the following pairs of words. When you have listened, try repeating the words yourself.

• beg bug
• better butter
• empire umpire
• fled flood
• hell hull
• jest just
• many money
• net nut
• ready ruddy
• steady study

Click on the audio symbol and listen to the sentences. Choose which of the target words has been used in sentence. Click on the arrow next to "Text" to see the text read.

beg bug
Text:                 --                        Would you please not bug me for any more money?            

better butter
Text:                 --                        If you want a buttered one, you will have to ask him.            

empire umpire
Text:                 --                        Our umpire at the ball park was fantastic.            

fled flood
Text:                 --                        When I hear news of the flood I got in car and left town.            

hell hull
Text:                 --                        I'm sure it will be hell to clean.            

jest just
Text:                 --                        It was just a joke.            

many money
Text:                 --                        I don't think he has many.            

net nut
Text:                 --                        He rushed the net too early!            

ready ruddy
Text:                 --                        Jack's ruddy cheeks showed embarrassment.            

steady study
Text:                 --                        The sound of typing came from the study.            

Tongue Twisters!

She sells sea shells by the sea shore.

Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers.  Now if Peter Piper picked apeck of pickled peppers, how many peppers did Peter Piper pick?

More difficult...

Three thin thieves thought a thousand thoughts.  Now if three thin thieves thought a thousand thoughts, how many thoughts did each thief think?

That which is theirs is neither more nor less than that which is thine.

This thing and that thing are better than those things.

The thin thief went through that thicket over there.

Charles Dickens had a thick thicket, which was adorned by a thousand thorns, and those thorns were adorned by a thousand tickets.  He called it the "Dickens Ticket Thicket", and the Dickens Ticket Thicket was so thick that in the thick and thin of things I think it was the thickest ticket thicket that I'd ever seen.