English Recordings

TOPIC ABOUT IMMIGRATION

Enough of the Orban government

Exoskelaton

Don't use your phone in class

Don't eat chewing gum in class

Don't read comics in class

Don't talk in class

Don't chat in class

Don't listen to music in class

Don't write on your desks

Don't run in the corridors

Don't be late

This is an Iranian cheetah. It is an endangered animal. Around 70 of them are alive but the number of these wild animals will increase in the future. We have some plans. For example, we are going to protect their natural homes, to make movies about their life, and to teach people how to take more care of them.

II. /l/ as in oily, oil, /n/ as in sin, /ŋ/ as in sing

Repeat the following words

feeling feel telling tell early earl
willing will fully full sailing sail
apple able simple little middle bottle
tunnel amble novel morsel

Imitate the model: sin => sing, sink

win (wing, wink) ban (bang, bank) kin (king, kink)
hun (hung, hunk) tan (tang, tank) ran (rang, rank)
clan (clang, clank) bun (bung, bunk) sun (sung, sunk)

Repeat the following sentences

He was longing to strangle that annoying uncle of his.
Boxing-ring and skating-rink were his favorite haunts.
At half-past, he calmly walked down to Holborn to talk to the colonel.
Lovely lilies and lilacs bloomed in the valley.
Who long lies will not long live.
The young singer longed to sing a little longer.
He banged on the gong and sang a merry song.

I. /æ/ as in pat, /ɑː/ as in part, /e/ as in pet

Repeat the following words

bad, bed, bard mart, met, mat peck, pack, park
head, had, hard ham, hem, harm lard, lad, led

Add the contrasting words.
Ex: pat => pet, part

at Dan packed bad ham

Repeat the following sentences:

It’s hard to park a large car in the dark.
The sad man with a knapsack sat on the black bag.
A deaf friend helped Ted to mend the mesh of the net.
There was a barn dance in the large farm.
A half-hearted laugh and a hard-headed chap.
The Armada was regarded with alarm.
That man has a bad habit of cramming his hat and jacket into a bag.

II. /r/ as in red, /tr/ as in tread, /dr/ as in dread

Repeat the following words

read rid red rash rasp rub
rude raw round road royal ride
rear rare correct morale arranger mirror
career era thorough very carry sorry

Add a consonant in front of -r
Ex: rag => brag, drag

ring (bring) rush (crush, brush)
ray (tray, pray) raw (draw)
rye (try, cry, dry) rind (grind)
rain (crane, train, brain) rank (frank, crank)
rude (crude, shrewd) retch (stretch)
cream (scream)

Repeat the following sentences

The director’s secretary was reading in the library when I arrived.
The strawberry and raspberry cream was in the refrigerator.
Rudolph the red-nosed reindeer.
Dry bread at home is better than roast meat abroad.
He bought a red and orange Rolls Royce.
Never wrestle with professional wrestlers.
The ruler wreaked revenge by war.

II. /ʃ/ as in ship, /ʧ/ as in chip, /ʒ/ as in beige, /ʤ/ as in badge

Repeat the following words

sheer, cheer, jeer leash, leech, liege sheep, cheap, jeep
shin, chin, gin cash, cadge garage
rouge usual treasure
azure

Imitate the model: chin => gin

cheap (jeep) choke (joke) chunk (junk) char (jar)
breeches (bridges) etch (edge) rich (ridge)

Repeat the following sentences

Charles chose a cheap lunch of chops and chips.
They were charged with perjury and tried before a judge and jury.
He injured his thumb on the jagged edge of a broken jar.
The explosion caused quite a commotion among the children at church.
I’ll fetch you our latest batch of cheap badges and brooches.

This reminds me of a story.

Goethe, one of Germany’s greatest artist, wrote a poem ‘The Sorcerer’s Apprentice.’ In it, an apprentice of a mighty magician is tasked to clean the floors while the master leaves for the day. The young man, in his arrogance, casts a spell he doesn’t fully understand on a broom to do his chores for him.

The broom comes to life and begins fetching pail of water after pail of water. Soon the apprentice sees the room is flooding. He doesn’t know how to stop the broom. In his fear, he cuts the broom in two, only to find, like a Hydra, there are now two brooms fetching water twice as fast.

The master arrives just in time to save the boys life. He disenchants the brooms, and the poem ends.