Listen to the recording. Prepare to read the speech aloud by marking pauses,
Intonation etc.
The Appointment
Once upon a time, there was a rich Caliph in Baghdad. He was very famous, because he was wise and kind. One morning he sent his servant, Abdul, to the market to buy some fruit. As Abdul was walking through the market, he suddenly felt very cold. He knew that somebody was behind him. He turned round and saw a tall man, dressed in black. He couldn't see the man's face, only his eyes. The man was staring at him, and Abdul began to shiver.
"Who are you? What do you want?" Abdul asked.
The man in black didn't reply.
"What's your name?'' Abdul asked nervously.
"I...am...Death", the stranger replied coldly and turned away.
Abdul dropped his basket and ran all the way back to the Caliph's house. He rushed into the Caliph's room,
"Excuse me, master. I have to leave Baghdad immediately," Abdul said.
"But why? What's happened?" the Caliph asked.
"I've just met Death in the market Abdul replied.
"Are you certain?’’ said the Caliph.
"Yes, I'm certain. He was dressed in black and he stared at me. I'm going to my father's house in Samara. If I go at once, I'll be there before sunset.”
The Caliph could see that Abdul was terrified and gave him permission to go to Samara.
The Caliph was puzzled. He was fond of Abdul and he was angry, because Abdul had been badly frightened by the stranger in the market. He decided to go to the market and investigate. When he found the man in black, he spoke to him angrily.
'' Why did you frighten my servant?''
"Who is your servant?” the stranger replied.
"His name is Abdul," answered the Caliph.
"I didn't want to frighten, him. Iwas just surprised to see him in Baghdad.1'
"Why were you surprised?" the Caliph asked.
"I was surprised because I've got an appointment with him.., tonight... in Samarra!"
Poetry
This is an extract from a Shakespeare play As You Like It. It is a famous speech, known as The seven ages of man, by a character called Jaques.Listen to the recording, transcribe the poem, mark intonation, read, learn the poem by heart and recite it in class.
‘As you like it’ Act II, Scene 7
by W. Shakespeare
All the world’s a stage, __________________________
And all the men and women merely players: __________________________
They have their exits and their entrances; __________________________
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And one man in his time plays many parts, __________________________
His acts being seven ages. At first the infant, __________________________
Mewing and puking in the nurse’s arms. __________________________
And then the whining school-boy, with his satchel, __________________________
And shining morning face, creeping like snail __________________________
Unwillingly to school. And then the lover, __________________________
Sighing like furnace, with a woful ballad __________________________
Made to his mistress’ eyebrow. Then a soldier, __________________________
Full of strange oaths, and bearded like the pard, __________________________
Jelous in honour, sudden and quick in quarrel, __________________________
Seeking the bubble reputation __________________________
Even in the cannon’s mouth. And then the justice, __________________________
In fair round belly with good capon lin’d, __________________________
With eyes severe, and beard of formal cut, __________________________
Full of wise saws and modern instances; __________________________
And so he plays his part. The sixth age shifts __________________________
Into the lean and slipper’d pantaloon __________________________
With spectacles on nose and pouch on side, __________________________
His youthful hose well sav’d a world too wide __________________________
For his shrunk shank; and his big manly voice, __________________________
Turning again toward childish treble, pipes __________________________
And whistles in his sound. Last scene of all, __________________________
That ends his strange eventful history, __________________________
In second childishness and mere oblivion __________________________
Sans teeth, sans eyes, sans taste, sans everything. __________________________
Work on your pronunciation. Transcribe or check in the dictionary the pronunciation of the words you are not sure. Read the poem.
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The chaos
Dearest creature in Creation, ___________________________________
Studying English pronunciation, ___________________________________
I will teach you in my verse ___________________________________
Sounds like corpse, corps, horse ___________________________________
and worse. ___________________________________
It will keep you, Susy, busy, ___________________________________
Make your head with heat grow ___________________________________
dizzy; ___________________________________
Tear in eye your dress you’ll tear. ___________________________________
So shall I! Oh, hear my prayer, ___________________________________
Pray, console your loving poet, ___________________________________
Make my coat look new, dear, sew it!
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Just compare heart, beard and ___________________________________
heard. ___________________________________
Dies and diet, lord and word, ___________________________________
Sword and sward, retain and Britain, ___________________________________
(Mind the latter, how it’s written!) ___________________________________
Made has not the sound of bade, ___________________________________
Say – said, pay – paid, laid, but ___________________________________
plaid. ___________________________________
Now I surely will not plague you ___________________________________
With such words as vague and ague, ___________________________________
But be careful how you speak, ___________________________________
Say break, steak, but bleak and ___________________________________
streak, ___________________________________
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Previous, precious, fuchsia, via; ___________________________________
Pipe, snipe, recipe and choir, ___________________________________
Cloven, oven; how and low; ___________________________________
Script, receipt; shoe, poem, toe, ___________________________________
Hear me say devoid of trickery: ___________________________________
Daughter, laughter and Terpsichore, ___________________________________
Typhoid, measles, topsails, aisles: ___________________________________
Exiles, similes, reviles; ___________________________________
Wholly, holly; signal, signing; ___________________________________
Thames; examining, combining; ___________________________________
Scholar, vicar and cigar, ___________________________________
Solar, mica, war and far. ___________________________________
From desire: desirable – admirable ___________________________________
from admire; ___________________________________
Lumber, plumber; bier but brier; ___________________________________
Chatham, brougham; renown but ___________________________________
known, ___________________________________
Knowledge; done, but gone and ___________________________________
tone, ___________________________________
One, anemone; Balmoral; ___________________________________
Kitchen, lichen; laundry, laurel; ___________________________________
Gertrude, German; wind and ___________________________________
mind; ___________________________________
Scene, Melpomene, mankind; ___________________________________
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Tortoise, turquoise, chamois-leather, ___________________________________
Reading, Reading, heathen, heather. ___________________________________
This phonetic labyrinth ___________________________________
Gives moss, gross, brook, brooch, ___________________________________
ninth, plinth. ___________________________________
Billet does not end like ballet; ___________________________________
Bouquet, wallet, mallet, chalet; ___________________________________
Blood and flood are not like food, ___________________________________
Not is mould like should and would. ___________________________________
Banquet is not nearly parquet, ___________________________________
Which is said to rime with darky. ___________________________________
Viscous, viscount; load and broad; ___________________________________
Toward, to forward, to reward, ___________________________________
And your pronunciation’s O.K., ___________________________________
When you say correctly croquet; ___________________________________
Rounded, wounded; grieve and ___________________________________
sieve; ___________________________________
Friend and fiend; alive and live; ___________________________________
Liberty, library; heave and heaven; ___________________________________
Rachel, ache, moustache; eleven. ___________________________________
We say hallowed, but allowed; ___________________________________
People, leopard; towed, but ___________________________________
vowed. ___________________________________
Mark the difference, moreover, ___________________________________
Between mover, plover, Dover, ___________________________________
Leeches, breeches; wise, precise; ___________________________________
Chalice but police and lice. ___________________________________
Camel; constable, unstable; ___________________________________
Principle, disciple; label; ___________________________________
Petal, penal and canal; ___________________________________
Wait, surmise, plait, promise; pal. ___________________________________
Suit, suite, ruin; circuit, conduit ___________________________________
Rime with “shirk it” and “beyond it”. ___________________________________
But it is not hard to tell, ___________________________________
Why it’s pall, mall, but Pall Mall. ___________________________________
Muscle, muscular; gaol; iron; ___________________________________
Timber, climber; bullion, lion, ___________________________________
Worm and storm; chaise, chaos, ___________________________________
chair; ___________________________________
Senator, spectator, mayor. ___________________________________
Ivy, privy; famous, clamour ___________________________________
And enamour rime with “hammer”. ___________________________________
Pussy, hussy and possess. ___________________________________
Desert but dessert, address. ___________________________________
Golf, wolf; countenance; lieutenants ___________________________________
Hoist, in lieu of flags, left pennants. ___________________________________
River, rival; tomb, bomb, comb, ___________________________________
Doll and roll and some and home. ___________________________________
Stranger does not rime with anger, ___________________________________
Neither does devour with clangour. ___________________________________
Soul, but foul and gaunt, but aunt; ___________________________________
Font, front, won’t; want, grand, ___________________________________
and, grant, ___________________________________
Shoes, goes, does.٭ Now first say: ___________________________________
finger, ___________________________________
And then singer, ginger, linger. ___________________________________
Real, zeal; mauve, gauze and ___________________________________
gauge; ___________________________________
Marriage, foliage, mirage, age. ___________________________________
Query does not rime with very, ___________________________________
Nor does fury sound like bury. ___________________________________
Dost, lost, post and doth, cloth, loth; ___________________________________
Job, Job, blossom, bosom, oath. ___________________________________
Though the difference seems little, ___________________________________
We say actual, but victual, ___________________________________
Seat, sweat, chaste, caste; Leigh, ___________________________________
eight, height; ___________________________________
Put, nut; granite, but unite. ___________________________________
Reefer does not rime with “deafer”, ___________________________________
Feoffer does, and zephyr, heifer. ___________________________________
Dull, bull; Geoffrey, George; ate, ___________________________________
late; ___________________________________
Hint, pint; senate, but sedate; ___________________________________
Scenic, Arabic, pacific; ___________________________________
Science, conscience, scientific; ___________________________________
Tour, but our, and succour, four; ___________________________________
Gas, alas, and Arkansas! ___________________________________
Sea, idea, guinea, area, ___________________________________
Psalm; Maria, but malaria; ___________________________________
Youth, south, southern; cleanse ___________________________________
and clean; ___________________________________
Doctrine, turpentine, marine. ___________________________________
Compare alien with Italian, ___________________________________
Dandelion with battalion, ___________________________________
Sally with ally; yea, ye, ___________________________________
Eye, I, ay, aye, whey, key, quay! ___________________________________
Say aver, but ever, fever, ___________________________________
Neither, leisure, skein, receiver. ___________________________________
Never guess – it is not safe; ___________________________________
We say calves, valves, half, but ___________________________________
Ralf! ___________________________________
Heron; granary, canary; ___________________________________
Crevice, and device, and eyrie; ___________________________________
Face but preface, but efface, ___________________________________
Phlegm, phlegmatic; ass, glass, ___________________________________
bass; ___________________________________
Large, but target, gin, give, verging; ___________________________________
Ought, out, joust and scour, but ___________________________________
scourging; ___________________________________
Ear, but earn; and wear and tear ___________________________________
Do not rime with “here”, but “ere”. ___________________________________
Seven is right, but so is even; ___________________________________
Hyphen, roughen, nephew, Stephen; ___________________________________
Monkey, donkey; clerk and jerk; ___________________________________
Asp, grasp, wasp; and cork and ___________________________________
work. ___________________________________
Pronunciation – think of psyche! – ___________________________________
Is a paling, stout and spiky; ___________________________________
Won’t it make you lose your wits, ___________________________________
Writing “groats” and saying groats? ___________________________________
It’s a dark abyss or tunnel, ___________________________________
Strewn with stones, like rowlock, ___________________________________
gunwale, ___________________________________
Islington and Isle of Wight, ___________________________________
Housewife, verdict and indict! ___________________________________
Don’t you think so, reader, rather, ___________________________________
Saying lather, bather, father? ___________________________________
Finally: which rimes with “enough”, ___________________________________
Though, through, plough, cough, ___________________________________
hough, or tough? ___________________________________
Hiccough has the sound of “cup”… ___________________________________
My advice is – give it up! ___________________________________
Charivarius (G. N. Trenite)
٭ No, you are wrong. This is the plural of “doe”.
Appendix 1
Additional exercises
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