Vowel use i/ i / ae
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Publicado: 9 de abril de 2011
27/03/2011
Minimal Pairs [i] vs. [ɪ]
pit living bid live bitch gin Pete leaving bead leave beach Jean pick lick grin feel hit tin peak leak green fill heat teen
Tongue Twisters
• • • • • •Pip and Pete shipped the sheep ships cheaply. Those bins are for Bill Beal’s beans. Does Jim still steal Jill’s jeans? Will Wheeler’s team get many hits in this heat? Fifty themes for thrifty teams.He’s giving his healing pills to all the sinners on the scene. • Tim lives in a hill. He has a little pig which drinks milk every morning.
Read the following texts.
The Treehouse • Rick and Mitsy livein a treehouse which is covered with leaves. It is very weird to live in a treehouse, but Rick and Mitsy think it’s neat. In the winter when it rains their house leaks, and they don’t have any heat.That’s when Mitsy misses living in a real house and she thinks about leaving. But she just grins and wishes for more green leaves to live in.
Cheap Pete
• Pete lives near a peach orchard, and is apeach picker. Every morning, he leaves his living quarters and picks peaches all day. Peach picking leaves Pete with a good living, though his wages are sometimes cheap. So, Pete picks the peacheswhen they are at their peak, and he leaves the peaches without the pits in the green leaves.
Work with a partner and practice the following dialogue
• Situation: Two students are going to theirfriends’ for dinner. Lisle: You're really keen on that reading, Richard. But we have to go! Richard: Give me a minute, Lisle. I'm almost finished reading! Lisle: You're not nearly finished. Read when weget back. Richard: Yeah, you're right. I'll miss dinner, otherwise. What are we having? Lisle: Some really strange meat. And wheat bread with thin beets. Richard: I bit into some bad beets last week. Myteeth ached for a week. Lisle: Yes, I'm sure bad beets bitten are really a rip-off. But Tina is cooking, so it won't be so bad. Richard: Good. I've seen Tina cook some sinfully good dinners....
Minimal Pairs [i] vs. [ɪ]
pit living bid live bitch gin Pete leaving bead leave beach Jean pick lick grin feel hit tin peak leak green fill heat teen
Tongue Twisters
• • • • • •Pip and Pete shipped the sheep ships cheaply. Those bins are for Bill Beal’s beans. Does Jim still steal Jill’s jeans? Will Wheeler’s team get many hits in this heat? Fifty themes for thrifty teams.He’s giving his healing pills to all the sinners on the scene. • Tim lives in a hill. He has a little pig which drinks milk every morning.
Read the following texts.
The Treehouse • Rick and Mitsy livein a treehouse which is covered with leaves. It is very weird to live in a treehouse, but Rick and Mitsy think it’s neat. In the winter when it rains their house leaks, and they don’t have any heat.That’s when Mitsy misses living in a real house and she thinks about leaving. But she just grins and wishes for more green leaves to live in.
Cheap Pete
• Pete lives near a peach orchard, and is apeach picker. Every morning, he leaves his living quarters and picks peaches all day. Peach picking leaves Pete with a good living, though his wages are sometimes cheap. So, Pete picks the peacheswhen they are at their peak, and he leaves the peaches without the pits in the green leaves.
Work with a partner and practice the following dialogue
• Situation: Two students are going to theirfriends’ for dinner. Lisle: You're really keen on that reading, Richard. But we have to go! Richard: Give me a minute, Lisle. I'm almost finished reading! Lisle: You're not nearly finished. Read when weget back. Richard: Yeah, you're right. I'll miss dinner, otherwise. What are we having? Lisle: Some really strange meat. And wheat bread with thin beets. Richard: I bit into some bad beets last week. Myteeth ached for a week. Lisle: Yes, I'm sure bad beets bitten are really a rip-off. But Tina is cooking, so it won't be so bad. Richard: Good. I've seen Tina cook some sinfully good dinners....
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