• Open your mouth very little to make the sound i• i is a long sound

Unit 1i / i: sheep

Practice 1

20¢

bean

cheap

heel

sheep

meal

seat

leek

peel eat

cheeks

Practice 1

Dialogue (In a restaurant)

Peter : What would you like to eat, Edith?

Edith : A meat sandwich.

Peter : Jean? Would you like a meat sandwich or a cheese sandwich?

Jean : A cheese sandwich, please, Peter.

Waiter : Good evening.

Peter : Good evening. We’ll have one meat sandwich and two cheese sandwiches.

Edith : And three teas, please!

Waiter : (writing down the order) One meat sandwich…two cheese sandwiches…and…three teas.

Intonation

Questions with ‘or’

These have a falling tune at the end.

The parts of words which are in yellow type are louder, or stressed.

Would you like coffee or tea?

Would you like veal or beef?

Would you like coffee or milk or tea?

Unit 2I ship

• First practise the sound i (Unit 1).• Then open your mouth a little more.• i is a long sound.• I is a short sound.

Practice 1

bean

sheep

eat

Sound 1 (i) Sound 2 (I)

bin

ship

it

Practice 1

seat

leek

cheeks

Sound 1 (i) Sound 2 (I)

lick

sit

chicks

TestTick the words you hear in the

sentences your teacher says:

1.a) sheep ; b) ship

2.a) bean ; b) bin

3.a) cheeks ; b) chicks

4.a) cheap ; b) chip

5.a) heel ; b) hill

6.a) peel ; b) pill

StressNumbers

three thirteen thirtyfour fourteen fortyfive fifteen fiftysix sixteen sixtyseven seventeen seventyeight eighteen eightynine nineteen ninety

stress

MINI BINGOWho is the luckiest today?

3 13 304 14 405 15 506 16 607 17 708 18 809 19 90