Unit 2

Approved by ………………………..…/A.Munkhzul  /The Head of Foreign Language and Culture Department/

PIZZA FOR DINNER / i:/ and /I/

How to make the sound / i:/ 

/i:/ is a long sound. Make your mouth wide, like a smile. Your tongue touches the sides of your teeth.

Sound and Spelling

/i:/ is usually spelled ee or ea.

Ex;   see , agree     eat        seat           team

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

Listen and say these sentences.

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 /I/

/i/ is a short sound. Make your mouth a bit less wide than for /I:/ Your tongue is a bit further back in your mouth than for /I:/.

Sound and spelling

/I / is usually spelled i. Say these words.

            If   listen   miss  dinner   swim 

Say these other words with /i/

Busy          business         building               system

Say these phrases.

1.      Fifty – six

2.      Dinner in the kitchen

3.      A cinema ticket

4.      A picture of a building

5.      Big business

Exercises

Put these /i:/ words in the dialogues.

             / email    evening   police   secret   Steve   TV/

1.      A;  What shall we do this ………………?

B:  Let’s stay at home and watch ……………….

2.      A:  Let me read that …………………….

B:  No – it’s a ……………..!

3.      A: You know my friend …………………?

B: Yes

A: Well, he’s got a new job. He’s joined the …………………!

Find the /I / words from these clues.

Example: A thousand thousand is a million.

1.      You can use a …………………to go up and down in a building.

2.      There are sixty seconds in a …………………

3.      A……………….is a book of words to help you with your English.

4.      It’s too warm in here- open the …………………

5.      Would you like a …………….with your coffee?

6.      Birds and planes have ……………..

7.      You can see yourself in a ………………….

8.      Don’t drop ……………..- put it in a bin!

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

Big      busy    dinner     give   green     in  listen  meet  office   people  Pizza  please  repeat  six  tea  three

Match the beginnings and endings of the sentences.

Example: Let’s have pizza – for dinner

1.      We’re always busy …………….                  A. repeat

2.      Would you like tea …………….                  B. people in the museum

3.      Give me that big ……………….                  C. six o’clock

4.      There were only three …………                   d. in the office

5.      Listen and ……………………..                   e. or coffee?

6.      Let’s meet at …………………..                   f. green book, please.

Listen and circle the word you hear.

1.      Leave / live

2.      Knee/ near

3.      Litter / letter