To make the target sound /n/, don't close your lips. Put your tongue on the roof of your mouth. Touch your side teeth with the sides of your tongue. Use your voice. /n/ comes through your nose. Listen and repeat: /n/. / | 165 UNIT 46 n nose - Hello . Oh . No never . Nothing . No. Nobody . No we didn t. I m not interested . No definitely not. No. I didn t phone you . No I did not send you an email. No. Not in the least . Can t you take no for an answer . No I don t want to make a donation to anything. I haven t any money. And please don t phone me again. 2 Target sound n D5i To make the target sound n don t close your lips. Put your tongue on the roof of your mouth. Touch your side teeth with the sides of your tongue. Use your voice n comes through your nose. Listen and repeat n . voice Minimal pairs Sound 1 m mile The mile is very old. mine This is mine. mummy He loves mummy. comb I want a comb. name He s proud of this name. Sound 2 M Nile The Nile is very old. nine This is nine. money He loves money. cone I want a cone. mane He s proud of this mane. Minimal pair words D52a a Listen and repeat the words. D52b b You will hear five words from each minimal pair. For each word write 1 for m sound 1 or 2 for n sound 2 . EXAMPLE Pair 1 1 1 1 2 2 166 UNIT 46 Zn nose Minimal pair sentences ir c Listen to the minimal pair sentences. D 5i d Listen to five of the sentences and write 1 for m sound 1 or 2 for n sound 2 D5 ae Sentence stress Listen to the minimal pair sentences again and match each pair with r stress patterns a-e below. The big circles are the strongly stressed wore in the sentence and the small circles are the weakly stressed words. EXAMPLE a oooO Pair 4 1 want a comb. I I want a cone. a oooO b ooO c oOoooO d oOooO e ooOo Notice that the weakly stressed words are said more quickly and that pronunciation of some words changes if they are weakly stressed ov becomes av is Ziz becomes ZzZ or az a is pronounced a . f Tick the words a or b that you hear in the sentences. 1 a combs b cones 2 a mine b nine 3 a name b mane 4 a some b sun 5 a warm b warn 6 a money b mummy 3 Dialogue Qa First practise the target sound ZnZ in words from the dialogue. Read the words aloud or visit .
