Transcript Chapter Ten Affricates: /t / /d /

Chapter Thirteen
第十三章
Semi-vowels半元音: /w/ /j/
Time: 1 period
Warming-up exercises
:
• A. Review the following sentences:
Collect the papers, please.
It was lost in the file.
A little pill may well cure a great ill.
He lost his life in the struggle for liberty.
• B. Review the following tongue twisters:
a. Little Lily and little Nelly are writing letters.
Let’s leave little Lily and little Nelly alone.
b. Will you sit still, Bill?
I’ll sit as still as a hill.
C. Review the following rhyme:
Wish
Early to bed,
Early to rise
Makes a man healthy,
Wealthy and wise.
Eat slowly and live a long life.
Eat at pleasure, drink by measure.
Fear kills more than illness.
Folly is an incurable disease.
Review the following words：
evade cover Eve evoke Steven victory veteran Vincent
Definition
Approximants occur when one articulator
moves close to another, but not close enough
to cause friction or to stop the airflow. Note that
/w/ and /j/ are sometimes referred to as ‘semivowels’. This is because
Ⅰ they are made without
a restriction to the airflow, unlike the other
consonants. But they act in a consonant-like way;
we say an apple, but we say a pear, a
watermelon and a yam. All three approximants
are important linking sounds in connected
speech.
Characteristics
/w/ A labio-velar semi-vowel. The tongue is in the
position of a close back vowel (similar to /u/). The
soft palate is raised. The sound glides quickly to the
following vowel. /w/ is voiced.
/j/ A palatal semi-vowel. The tongue is in the position
of a close front vowel (similar to /i/). The soft palate
is raised. The sound glides quickly to the following
vowel. /j/ is voiced.
舌位图/w/
舌位图/j/
Games and Activities
Practice
1. Words in comparison.
/w / & /v/: wood / value; wet / vet; work /verb;
wine /vain; walk / vogue; one /van;
wheat / village; weaver / river
/j/: yard / yawn / year / yearn / yellow
/ usual few / queue / educate / suit
/З/: measure / vision / pleasure / television
leisure / seizure
/i/: live / with / university / lady / very / silly
minister / limit / district / rich
2. Phrases
/w/ enjoy world-wide fame ; wear away
know the whereabouts ; a weekly magazine
wet behind the ears ; share weal and woe
welcome the visitors ; wage freeze
/j/
at the back yard; your yesterday
all these years; yeaning for fame
stop yawning; green and yellow
year in and year out; a yes-man
3. Sentences
That’s a good wine.
They became aware of it.
Where there’s a will, there’s a way.
No sweet without seat.
What is worth doing at all is worth doing well.
He works for the union.
Let’s try something new.
It is her usual behavior.
Yesterday I heard a beautiful tune.
4. Tongue twisters
A. How much wood would a woodchuck chuck if a
woodchuck could chuck wood?
B. Walter was wailing, worrying and watching the wet
weather and the wet wind.
C. Who that in youth no virtues uses, in age all honor him
refuses.
D. Unique New York. Unique New York. Unique New York.
5. Rhymes
A. The Hills Are Green
The hills are green;
The water’s clear.
The seed yellow, another reaps;
The wealthy find, another keeps.
B. Clouds
White sheep, white sheep,
On a blue hill,
When the wind stops,
You all stand still.
You walk far away
When the wind blows.
White sheep, white sheep,
Where do you go?
C. Spring
If you see a robin,
You will know that spring is near.
If you see a nest,
You will know that spring is here.
D. The Sky So Blue
Who made the sky so blue?
Not I nor you.
Only universe made the sky,
Not you nor I.
E. Star Light, Star Bright
Star light, star bright
First star I see tonight
I wish I may I wish I might
Have the wish I wish tonight.
After-class assignments :
1. Review and remember the words, phrases,
sentences, tongue twisters and the rhymes
learned in class.
2. Make sentences, dialogues and / or advertising
slogans containing the semi-vowels.
3. Learn to sing an English song: Yesterday Once
More.
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语音》P99-p100 上的单词，短语及句子，p101
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