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lips are neutral. The opening between the jaws is fairly wide.
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Task 81. Practise saying the words and the sentences correctly:
Car, card, cart, party, far, farm, art, army, A heart, a harp,
an arm, a mast, a bard, a castle, a palm, a carpet, a fast car, a farm
cart, a dark barn in a large farm-yard

1. He laughs best who laughs last.
2. I can’t stay after classes.
3. The exam will be rather hard to pass.
4. Mark can't park his car in the barn because of a calf and a
large cart blocking the farm-yard.

Task 82. Practise the following dialogue. Learn it by heart.
A dialogue
A: I shan’t pass the maths exam.
B: I shan’t pass in art.
A: Maths is too hard. I can’t understand it.
B: I’m very bad at art.
A: Perhaps you’ll pass.
B: No, no, I can’t pass.

Task 83. Practise reading the following words and phrases, paying
special attention to the pronunciation of –ahr- in combination with
other consonants and vowels:
Alarm, are, argument, arm, armistice, art, artist, bard, mark,
market, martyr, narcotic, part, Parkway, partner, parted, regard,
remark, remarkable, sharp, sparkle, stark,
starlet, parkway, part, partner, parted,
regard, remark, remarkable, sharp,
sparkle, stark, starlet, started.
[ɒ] back, low-broad, slightly

rounded, short and lax vowel - is
pronounced with the tongue held in the

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