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See, say sit, miss, pass, class, sweet, swim, switch, some
spinsters, a saw, several mice, a saucer, seven sausages.

1. It makes no sense.
2. I can’t accept such a poor excuse.
3. Pete’s numerous absences from school must be stopped.
4. Sue and Cecily are sisters. Sue is sixteen this summer.
Cecily was seventeen last Sunday. Sue is sowing grass seed. She
sees Cecily asleep with glass of cyder and a nice sixpenny ice by
her side. Sue slips across, sips the glass of cyder and eats the ice.
Cecily gets such a surprise when she wakes.

Task 49. Memorize the following nursery rhime, pay special
attention to the pronounciation of [s]:
A sailor went to sea, sea, sea
To see what he could see, see, see,
But all that he could see, see, see
Was the bottom of the deep blue sea, sea, sea.

Task 50. Practise reading the following words and phrases, paying
special attention to the pronunciation of [s] in combination with
other consonants and vowels:
Exercise 1: st- at the end of words:
Baste, beast, best, bossed, boxed, context, creased, crossed; lust,
missed. Mixed, most, must, next, past, placed, post, raced, taste,
text, toast, waste, worst, yeast.

Exercise 2: -st- in phrases:
First of all, first song, fixed cars, last night, last summer, missed
the train.

Exercise 3: -ts at the end of words:
Aunts, aunts, bets, blitz, boats, bouts, cadets, cats, chats; quarts,
quits, rabbits, rates, rats, rebates, reiterates, repeats, rights, rites,
riots, ritz, rotates, scents, scouts, seat, shoots, shots, sites, sits,

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