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2. Fight fire with fare.
3. Trifles make perfection, and perfection is no trifle.
Task 55. Memorize the following nursery rhime, pay special
attention to the pronounciation of [f]:
I’m a scary little hare with floppy ears.
One here, one there, my feet are bare.
I’m always full of fear.
Dear little hare, don’t cry. Bare feet are fleet feet.
Long ears help you hear.
But it’s bad and very sad to be so full of fear.
[v]
Task 56. Practise saying the words and the sentences correctly:
Velvet, vase, vote, of, love, live, never, river, over, a stove, a
vest, vice, virtue, seven evil devils, a village, vicar
Victor, Vivian, Eve, Vivienne
1. I’ve never heard of Steve.
2. I’ve never lost he love of my job.
3. I’ve given Vic the best of advice.
4.Every evening Victor and Vivian visit Eve. Victor and
Vivian are rivals. Both vow to love Eve forever. But Eve is very
vain. Vivian is vivacious and full of verve. Eventually Victor gives
Eve up and goes over to Vivienne, leaving Eve to Vivian
Task 57. Memorize the following nursery rhime, pay special
attention to the pronounciation of [v]:
As I was going to St. Ives
I met a man with seven wives.
Every wife had seven sacks,
Every sack had seven cats,
Every cat had seven kits.
Kits, cats, sacks and wives.
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