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4. Mr. Hoyle toils with the soil.
5. The boy is adroit with his quoit.
6. Roy is a nice boy. Joyce is spoilt and coy. Roy
destroys Joyce’s choicest toys.

Task 110 . Memorize the following nursery rhime, pay special
attention to the pronounciation of [ɒi]:
Please, take me back to Toyland.
Everyone’s happy there.
It’s more than a girl and boy land,
Where dreams, just like toys can be shared.

Diphthong [ aυ] – the nucleus is pronounced with the bulk
of the tongue in the front part of the mouth, but slightly raised.
Thus the nucleus may be defined as front-retracted, low broad,
unrounded. In the glide the tongue moves higher and backward,
i.e. in the direction of [ u ], without actually reaching its position.
The opening between the jaws is wide for the nucleus and much
narrower for the glide.
[ aυ ]
Task 111. Practise saying the words and the sentences correctly:
How, bound, house, howl, county, cow, cowed, count, owl,
cowboy, scowl, a cloud, a cow, a scout, a plough, a rout. This
owl has found a brown mouse on the ground.
a hound with a grouse in its mouth proud – cowed
mountains and fountains, a round house

1. He is seldom out of town nowadays.
2. Without a doubt he’s somewhere about.
3. Now, now, what are you howling for?
4. The loud shouts and howls of the crowd of louts
from the town drown the sound of the vows of the devout on the
mound.

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