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B: No meat, Doctor? A: Next patient, please!
A: I repeat, you must not eat
meat for at least a week.
Task 75. Read the following words comparing / I:-Ι /

A sheep – a ship a meal – a mill
A bean – a bin a lead – a lid
Jean likes gin… but gin doesn’t like Jean!
Sleepy Freda seeks size six slippers to fit her feet.
Fish and chips are cheap and easy to eat.

[ e ] short and lax , mid-narrow,
unrounded vowel - is pronounced with the
bulk of the tongue in the front part of the
mouth cavity. The front of the tongue is
raised in the direction of the hard palate,
but a little less than for the [ I ] vowel.
The lips are spread. The opening between
the jaws is medium.
[e]
Task 76. Practise saying the words and the sentences correctly:
Men, pet, better, tell, end, best, many, bell, A leg, a tent, a
penny, a letter wren’s nest, a seven pets, a treasure chest, a
wedding-dress, ten well-dressed men, Eleven hens with twelve
eggs in ten nests.
1. Better late than never.
2. East or West home is best.
3. Let’s get ready.

Task 77. Practise the following dialogue. Learn it by heart.
A dialogue
A: Ben. A: And did you
finish the fence?

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