 Practise what this airline pilot says. Hello, this is Captain Oates speaking. Below us is the coast of Italy. We are very close to Rome — the road below us goes from Rome to the coast. We shall fly over the city before landing. Please obey the NO SMOKING notices. Practise this conversation. A: Could you go and post this letter, please? B: I can’t go out. It’s snowing, and I’ve got a cold. A: Blow your nose, and put your coat on. You’ll be OK. B: I’ll get frozen. A: Only if you go slowly. Walk quickly. B: I can’t walk quickly. The ground is frozen. It’s like the South Pole. A: Oh, stop moaning. I’ll go.  Practise this conversation. A: Hello, you’re Gloria, aren’t you? Mr Walker’s small daughter? B: Yes, I’m Gloria Walker. But I’m not small any more. I’m four and three quarters. A: Yes, you are quite tall, for four and three-quarters. B: I’m taller than my friend Gordon, and he’s five and a quarter. A: Does Gordon live next door? B: No. We live at number forty, and he lives at forty-four.  Say these phrases. roast pork North Pole an open door an awful joke a stone wall a small hotel a cold hall an important notice  Say these places a supermarket a shoe shop a school a chemist’s a cafe a newsagent’s a tool shop Say thesce sentences. Use a ruler. I’d like some boots for the winter, and some shoes for school. Have you got any “Beauty-tooth” toothpaste? Could I have some fruit juice? A newspaper and some chewing gum, please. Excuse me, where are the fruit and vegetables?  Practise these conversations in a library. A: Can I help you? B: Yes, please. I’m looking for a book about woodwork. A: A book about woodwork? What about Woodwork for Beginners by Peter Bull? It’s full of good ideas. B: Thank you. I’ll look at it. A: Can I help you? B: I hope so. I’m looking for a book about knitting. A: A book about knitting? Here’s a very good book called Good Looking Woollens, by Michael Foot. You could look at that. B: Yes, that looks good.  Practise this extract from a radio programme. JUDITH BROOKES: In the Food Programme studio today, we have two cooks, Julian Woolf and Susan Fuller. They are going to choose Christmas presents for a new cook. Julian Woolf, your kitchen is full of useful tools. If you could choose just two things for a new cook, what would you choose? JULIAN WOOLF: I’d choose a fruit juice maker. You just put the fruit in and it produces fruit juice. It’s super. And secondly, I’d choose a really good butcher’s knife. Every cook could do with a good knife. SUSAN FULLER: I’d choose a good cookery book, full of beautiful pictures. He could look at the book, and it would give him good ideas. And secondly, I’d choose a computer.  Practise this conversation. A: I’d like to reserve a seat on the ten thirty flight to Birmingham, on Thursday. My name is Vernon. B: Thursday May 21st? Certainly, sir. There’s a seat in the third row. A: That’s fine. And I’m returning on May 23rd. B: The first flight leaves Birmingham at eight thirty. A: That’s a bit early. B: Or there’s twelve thirty, or four thirty. A: Four thirty’s too late. Twelve thirty, please. B: On the twelve thirty flight on May 23rd, there’s only a seat free in row thirteen. A: Row thirteen? No, thanks. I’ll go at eight thirty. Practise this conversation between a driving instructor and a learner driver. A: Take the third turning on the right. Then stop by the church. I’d like you to reverse round that corner. B: Yes, I certainly need to practise reversing. (stops and reverses) A: Not bad. But you weren’t close enough to the kerb. Turn the steering wheel further to the left. B: OK. Last lesson I turned it too much, and I was too close to the kerb. (tries again) Oh dear, that was worse. A: We’ll return to reversing later. Now drive on. Turn right by the big fir tree. B: I need to learn how to do an emergency stop. A: Yes, when we’ve gone a bit further. Take the first turning — mind that little girl! Well done, that was a perfect emergency stop. Spelling and pronunciation: Vowels One of the main difficulties of English spelling is that some words are pronounced the same, but are spelt differently and have different meanings. Can you think of words pronounced the same as each of these, but spelt differently? guessed ____________ warn ____________ meet ____________ won ____________ threw ____________ Work in pairs. Match the words on the right to the examples on the left, according to the vowel sound they share in common. Say them aloud to help you to decide. bad damage apple blood tongue country thorough  bed pleasure leisure lent/leant blue/blew root/route new/knew calm heart weak/week seize/seas wheel/we’ll saw bored/board caught/court cushion butcher pull bird worm guilty witch/which mist/missed sheep piece/peace laugh castle half  ship sink mystery not/knot knowledge quality  pot what yacht cough scandal flat  boot truly threw/through bury/berry weather/whether check/cheque  put should wood/would turn firm  cut worry money rough wore/war source/sauce raw/roar Add these words to the appropriate group above, according to their vowel sounds: business guard marry merry push receive soup walk wander wonder work Find the mistakes in each of these sentences and correct them. 1 I am quite shore that this weak is going too be wonderful. 2 We are truely sorry that you had to weight so long four the delivery. 3 He has dredful manners - he paws tomato source on all his food. 4 They couldn’t get thier new armchare threw the door. 5 Witch of these too alternatives is the write one? 6 He lent the ladder agenst the wall and climed onto the roof. 7 The cieling and walls of this room need peinting ergently. Listen and repeat:  bit bid him miss  bet bed hen mess  bat bad ham mass  cut bud bun bus  pot cod Tom loss  put wood pull push Write the symbol for the vowel you hear in each word. (1 . . . 10) Check your answers. 1. [ ] 2. [ ] 3. [ ] 4. [ ] 5. [ ] 6. [ ] 7. [ ] 8. [ ] 9. [ ] 10.[ ] Listen and repeat:  beat bead been beef  heart hard harm hearth  caught cord corn course  root rude room roof  hurt heard earn earth Write the symbol for the vowel you hear in each word. (1 . . . 10) Check your answers. 1. [ ] 2. [ ] 3. [ ] 4. [ ] 5. [ ] 6. [ ] 7. [ ] 8. [ ] 9. [ ] 10.[ ]