- You're sure you can endure the long tour? - Poor hunters offer no allure to sure -shots.
- Insurance is a poor risk on guided tours.
- The cure for polio makes Salk's name endure. - I'm secure that Mr. Moore will endure.
LESSON 4 : REVIEWING DIFFICULT CONSONANTS
SECTION I : \
[LANGUAGE NOTE : The American-style initial R-Sound should be practiced by speakers of all other first language groups. Of course, R/L confusion usually takes place with speakers of East Asian language -- those of JAPAN, CHINA, KOREA, and SOUTHEAST ASIA. Be particularly careful not to insert the extra vowel sound when the \speaker of HINDI (and other subcontinent languages), ARABIC, FARSI, and TOGOLOG.
L4/S1-A : THE \ SPELLING :
\
RED, ROSE, ROME, REACH, RENT, REMEMBER GREEN, FRIED, CRASH, BREW, BREAK, FREIGHT TREE, TRY, TROUBLE, TRICK
- THE TREE IS GROWING FROM THE LAWN. - I HAD TROUBLE BROILING THE FRESH FISH.
- IT'S TRUE THAT I'M PROUD OF THE WINTER CROP. Here are a few more drills for the R-shaded vowels. repeat run rural Fred crop trial
rid rake rotten tread tropic crowd
rest roast roar true grade proud
rat rye tree brew thrill Troy
root round free crook chrome broil
rookie royal trip broad grown trash
rough rear grid trust freight crash
- Remember the Red River Rovers whenever revisiting Texas.
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- Real estate agents read listings regularly.
- Trucks from the farm ravaged the remaining structures. - Retractors really roll away from your grip.
- Red roses represent real royalty there in France. L4/S1-B : THE \ SPELLING:
\ LOVE, LOAN, ELECTION, SELL
Now try these extra drills for L not found on the tape.
leap, lick, let, latch, loop, look, lost, lot, luck, element, elaborate, illuminate, Alabama, political, peel, pill, spell, gal, pool, pull, toll, tall, girl
- Listen, Larry, we'd like to level with you about your lawn. - Until eleven its less likely to happen.
- Spelling takes a toll on the girl's listening abilities.
- The lesson learned is clearly about loving your daily labor. L4/S1-C : CONTRASTING \
-- THE LONG RIVER LOOKS REALLY LOVELY. -- LUCY WAS REAL LUCKY.
-- THE RENT IS LIKELY TO RISE LATER.
-- A LOT OF RAIN LEAKED THROUGH THE ROOF.
And some additional contrasts which are not recorded on the tape: element/error illness/irregular regulate/legislate
SECTION II : \
[LANGUAGE NOTE : Pay particular attention to the V and W formations and contrasts if your first language is GERMAN, RUSSIAN, other SLAVIC
languages, as well as FINNISH, HUNGARIAN, NORWEGIAN, SWEDISH, and DANISH, FARSI, HINDI and other languages of the subcontinent.] L4/S2-A : THE \ Spellings :
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load/road rug/lug roast/close
wrong/long rust/lust royal/loyal
\ \
VERY, EVERY, VOTE, HAVE, VOICE, SAVE Now try these extra drills for the V consonant.
veal, visit, vest, voodoo, Vaughn, vacate, vote, vibrate, void, veer, vary, vat, fever, harvest, avoid, save, grieve, relieve, love, shelves, wave, groove, grove, leave
L4/S2-B : THE \ SPELLINGS :
\ \ OCCASIONAL SPELLING :
\
HOWEVER -- There are many parts of the United States where the W sound is pronounced with a slight, voiceless air puff before the lip glide when the word contains the \
WEST, WILL, WANT, WORRY, WATCH, WAS, WEDNESDAY And here are extra W drills not recorded on the tape.
we, will, west, wax, wooed, walk, wok, woke, wake, wow, war, were, west, will, want, which, want, whale, when, white, whip L4/S2-C : CONTRASTING \
-- VICTOR WAS VERY WORRIED.
-- I WANT TO VOTE NEXT WEDNESDAY.
-- EVERYONE WAS VISITING THE WEST COAST.
-- I NEVER WORKED VERY HARD ON WEDNESDAY EVENINGS. And now a few extra pair :
west/vest worse/verse went/vent Velma/well L4/S2-D : CONTRASTING \
REST/WEST/VEST RAIN/WAYNE/VAIN REAL/WHEEL/VEAL RAIL/WHALE/VALE
And a few other sets for you to practice:
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rill/will/villain Rome/won't/vote rye/why/violent/round/wound/vow SECTION III : \ L4/S3-A: THE \
[LANGUAGE NOTE : SPANISH speakers must pay closest attention to the contrast between the American \ SPELLINGS :
\
BERRY, BOAT, BANK, ABOUT, BORROW, BOAT, BASEBALL
And now some additional drills for the \on the tape.
beet, big, beg, bag, boot, book, bought, bottom, but, bail, boat, bite, bout, boy, boar, beer, cable, cribbage, cubic, cobble, bribe, ebb, cab, boob, hub, Abe, robe, verb
L4/S3-B : CONTRASTING \
-- THE BOAT IS VERY BIG.
-- CAN THE BOY VISIT HIS BROTHER VICTOR? -- I HAVE TO BORROW FIVE BANK NOTES.
-- I HAVE BETTER VISION FROM THE BACK ROW. And now try some additional B/V contrast. very/berry verb/bird bid/video vote/boat veil/bail Bill/villain Ben/venerable average/about
LESSON 5: NEW CONSONANTS; NEW PROBLEMS
SECTION I : THE \ L5/S1-A : INITIAL \Phonetic Symbol [ s ]
[LANGUAGE NOTE : Speakers from the following languages have the strongest tendencies to put an extra vowel sound before the initial \& CHINESE and SOUTHEAST languages.]
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SPELLINGS:
\ \
SAVE, SOME, SEVERAL, SCIENCE, SOMEWHERE, CELEBRATE, SOGGY, STATE, STATION, STUDENT, START, STOMACH, STOP, STUBBORN
-- SOMETHING SPECIAL HAPPENED THIS SUMMER. -- MY SISTER IS STILL SITTING BY MY SIDE.
-- THE STUDENTS STAYED AWAY FROM THE STOVE.
-- THE SPEAKER STARTED TO SCREAM ABOUT THE STATION. seal, sip, set, sat, socks, sane, sociology, seem, seep, sill, separate, several, century, sang, star stand, stove, steel, stenography, stereo, safest, sincerely, cinema
L5/S1-B : \
AS, WAS, DOES, THOSE, HIS, HAS, IS, EASY, HOUSES, WHOSE, REASON, RISE, USE, POSITION, RESOLVE, PAUSE, PHRASE, DEPOSIT, TRANSFER, SURPRISE
- IT WAS AS EASY AS THAT.
- THERE IS A SURPRISE FOR YOU IN THE HOUSE.
- WHO CAUSED YOU TO TRANSFER THOSE MUSICIANS?
And here are some more cases where the letter \voiced \
dissolve, cause, praise, phrase, positive, applause, dissolve, preserve, because, musician
- Whose idea was it to build those houses?
- It isn't as good as it was because of the materials they used.
SECTION II : CONSONANTS BEHIND THE \ L5/S2-A : THE \ SPELLING:
\ \
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