Lesson 2. Pizza for Dinner.

/i:/ and /i/

Lesson 2; Part A

How to make the sound /i:/?
/i:/ is a long sound. Look at the diagram.
Listen and then say the sound.
Make your mouth wide, like a smile.
Your tongue touches the sides of your teeth.

Lesson 2; Part B

Sound and spelling
/i:/ is usually spelled ее or ea. Listen and say these words.
see agree eat seat team

Listen and say these other words with /i:/

ie field piece
e these metre secret evening equal Peter museum European Chinese Japanese complete
ey key
i ski kilo litre pizza police machine magazine
eo people

Now listen and say these sentences. You will need to pause the recording to give yourself enough time to repeat.

1    Can you see the sea?
2    A piece of pizza, please.
3    Peter's in the team.
4    A kilo of peaches and a litre of cream.
5    Please can you teach me to speak Portuguese?

How to make the sound /ɪ/?
/i/ is a short sound. Look at the diagram.
Listen and then say the sound.
Make your mouth a bit less wide than for /i:/.
Your tongue is a bit further back in your mouth than for /i:/.
Target sound /ɪ/

Lesson 2; Part D

	Sound and spelling /ɪ/ is usually spelled i. Listen and say these words. if listen miss dinner swim
	Listen and say these other words with /ɪ/. busy business building system
Now listen and say these phrases. 1 fifty-six 2 dinner in the kitchen 3 a cinema ticket 4 a picture of a building 5 big business
Note: Eight letters of the alphabet have the sound /i:/. Listen and repeat. B C D E G P T V
Note: Vowel sounds in unstressed syllables often have the weak vowel /ə/. Listen and repeat. agree equal kitchen museum Peter picture pizza
Note: There is sometimes an /ɪ/ sound at the end of a word in an unstressed syllable, e.g. happy, coffee, busy. This sound is like /i:/ but shorter. Listen and repeat. happy coffee busy sixty

Exercises

1 Put the words in the dialogues.

Put these /i:/ words in the dialogues
email; evening; police; secret; Steve; TV

A: What shall we do this _______evening?
B: Let's stay at home and watch_______TV
A: Let me read that_______email.
B: No - it's a secret!
A: You know my friend_______Steve?
B: Yes.
A: Well, he's got a new job. He's joined the_______police.

2 Find the words from these clues.

2.4.jpg Find the /ɪ/ words from these clues.
Example: A thousand thousand is a million.

You can use a_______liftto go up and down in a building.
There are sixty seconds in a_______minute
A_______dictionary is a book of words to help you with your English.
It's too warm in here - open the_______window
Would you like a _______biscuit with your coffee?
Birds and planes have_______wings
You can see yourself in a_______mirror
Don't drop_______litter - put it in a bin!

3 Circle and underline the sounds.

Circle all the /i:/sounds and underline all the /i/ sounds.

big/i/ sound busy/i/ sound dinner/i/ sound give/i/ sound green/i:/ sound please/i:/ sound repeat/i:/ sound six/i/ sound tea/i:/ sound three/i:/ sound in/i/ sound listen/i/ sound meet/i:/ sound office/i/ sound people/i:/ sound pizza/i:/ sound

4 Match the beginnings and the endings of the sentences.

Match the beginnings and endings of the sentences.

We're always busy_______in the office
Would you like tea_______or coffee
Give me that big_______green book, please
There were only three_______people in the museum
Listen and_______repeat
Let's meet at_______six o'clock

a repeat.
b people in the museum.
с six o'clock.
d in the office.
e or coffee?
f green book, please.

5 Listen and circle the word you hear.

Listen and circle the word you hear.

1. leave / liveleave (=> sound pair 1)
2. knee / nearnear (=> sound pair 2)

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Lesson 2. Pizza for Dinner.

Lesson 2; Part A

Lesson 2; Part B

Lesson 2; Part C

Lesson 2; Part D