Text: "The Fun They Had" by I. Azimov...................................................109

Conversation and Discussion:

Bringing Up Children.................................................................................124

Unit Five.....................................................................................................136

Text: "Art for Heart's Sake" by R. Goldberg..............................................140

Conversation and Discussion:

Painting.......................................................................................................161

Unit Six.......................................................................................................176

Text: "The Man of Destiny" by G.B. Shaw................................................179

Conversation and Discussion:

Feelings and Emotions................................................................................200

Unit Seven...................................................................................................210

Text: "The Happy Man" by S. Maugham...................................................214

Conversation and Discussion:

Talking about People..................................................................................236

Unit Eight....................................................................................................248

Text: "The Apple-tree" by J. Galsworthy....................................................251

Conversation and Discussion:

Man and Nature

268

SPEECH SOUND EXERCISES

Unit One......................................................................................................280

[e — se] — [ei — ea] — Checked Vowels — [9, 5] — Aspiration — The Prevocalic [h] — The Linking [r]

Units Two, Three........................................................................................283

[i — i:] [o: — 3:] — Palatalization — [g, n — q] — [u, u:] — [f, 3]

Units Four, Five..........................................................................................287

[A — a:] — [3u] — [ai — ais] — [au — aua] —

[tr.

Units Six, Seven, Eight................................................................................291

[d — 0: — 3u] — [01] — [1] — [d] — [z, v] — Assimilation According to the Place of Obstruction — Loss of Plosion

EXERCISES IN INTONATION

Section One. Review of Part Two...............................................................295

Section Two. Intonation Pattern XIV. Rise-Fall..........................................306

Section Three. Temporizers. Emphatic Stress.............................................313

Section Four. Wide and Narrow Range of Pitch.........................................326

Section Five. Intonation Pattern XV...........................................................334

SUPPLEMENT...........................................................................................356

GRAMMAR EXERCISES

Morphology.................................................................................................362