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3 PRONUNCIATION (Track 3) 5 READING
a Listen and repeat the sounds below. a Where do these idioms come from? Read the
/θ/: theatre, bath, everything... texts and match the idioms with the texts.
/ð/: these, another, breathe... a. “It is raining cats and dogs.”
b. “Don’t throw the baby out
b Listen and tick the sound you hear. with the bathwater.”
(Track 4)
a. /θ/ b. /ð/
1. think
2. rather
3. brother
4. health
5. weather
6. teeth
7. earth 1.
Once upon a time, every family in England
8. smooth used to have a bath in a huge barrel. Once
9. thanks they filled the barrel with water, they used
10. their to have baths by taking turns. Father used
to have a bath first, then mother, and then
c Work in pairs. Check the sound of the words. children, oldest to youngest. The baby used
Read the rhyme in the box below to class. to be the last to have a bath. That’s to say,
/θ/: thought, thirty, earth, Thursday. they didn’t use to renew the water. They used
to have a bath in the same water. How awful!
/ð/: those, mother, together, without, father, It was really possible to lose something in it.
another, with, cloth, leather, brother, other.
Those thirty thoughtless brothers
2.
Thought an earth without others Once upon a time, there didn’t use to be
Another brother with his father on Thursday concrete roofs. People used to build their
Thought clothes like leather for his mother roofs out of reeds. A great deal of animal
kinds, from cats and dogs to insects, used to
4 GAME live there to keep warm. When it was rainy,
“Broken Telephone” animals used to slide down. When people
Sit u-shaped. The teacher whispers a rhyme looked at the rain from their windows, they
or a sentence to the first student. The sometimes used to see that it was pouring
student says it to the other student sitting animals. I guess they didn’t use to be puzzled
next and it goes on like this until the last by this. Luckily there weren't cows on the
student tells the rhyme out loud. roof.
b Answer the following questions.
1. What are the figurative meanings of these
idioms?
2. Do you know any idioms or proverbs in
your mother tongue, which has a story as
the idioms above? If so, can you explain
their background story?
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