Аракин 4 курс полностью

1. a) Consult a dictionary and transcribe the following words from the text. Practise their pronunciation 
paying attention to stresses: 
unanimous, corroborative, appreciation, naked, aridity, iota, subsequent, contraband, 
sheriff, circumstantial, persevering, unmitigated, aisle, exit, caliber, perspire, distaff, 
executive, inferiority, gavel, conduct (v, n), minute, indict, loosen. 
b) Listen to your partners' reading of the above exercise. Correct their mistakes. 
2. Read out the following word combinations paying attention to the phonetic phenomena of connected 
speech (assimilation, the linking “r”, the sonorant between two vowels, lateral and nasal plosions, the loss of 
plosion): 
where a man ought to get a square deal; the enormity of her offense; so long in a case 
like that; putting a man's life at stake; the jury seemed to be attentive; to get rid of her 
own guilt; no doubt signing it with his left hand; white men cheat black men; and placed 
them on the table; I was reluctant to take off my eyes; received almost unanimous critical 
acclaim; unbuttoned his vest, loosened his tie; it came crashing down on her afterwards; 
one more thing before I quit; watching Atticus walk into the street; indicted on a capital 
charge. 
3. Single out the communicative centres and make them prominent by tone and (tress in the following 
sentences: 
1. When Judge Taylor appointed Atticus Finch, an experienced smart lawyer and a 
very clever man/he was sure that Atticus would not win the case, he could not win it... 2. 
"In our courts, when it is a white man's word against a black man's, the white man always 
wins." 3. "... whenever a white man does that to a black man, no matter who he is, how 
rich he is, or how fine a family he comes from, that white man is trash..." 4. "The de-
fendant is not guilty, but somebody in this court-room is." 5. "I have nothing but pity in 
my heart for the chief witness for the state." 6. "We know all men are not created equal in 
the sense some people would have us believe — some people are smarter than others, 
some people have more opportunity because they were born with it, some men make 
more money than others,

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Практический курс английского языка. 4 курс под ред. В.Д. Аракина
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some ladies make better cakes than others, some people are born gifted beyond the 
normal scope of most men."