Our class 8. Adverbs

 

Phonetics

Please, study the examples and repeat with the audio.

1.     [s] – face, ice, trace, cent, icicle, cycle, cynic, necessary.

2.     [k] – cut, cake, coat, basic, crumble, cucumber, cater, common, plastic, cruise, crack, discussion.

3.     Ck – [k] – clock, back, lack, luck, stuck, duck.

4.     Ch – [ t∫] – much, charity, chastity, match, watch, chair, beach, child, chicken.

5.     Ch – [k] – chemistry, ache, choir, echo, school, schedule, scheme, mechanism.

6.     Ch – [∫] – machine, chef.

7.     Ci – [∫] – special, spacious, efficient, ancient, facial.

8.     Sc – [s] – science, scene, scent, scissors.

9.     Sc – [sk] – disco, biscuit, masculine.

10.   Cc – [ks] – access, success, accent.

11.   Cc – [k] – accord, accompany, accommodation, accumulate.

A box of biscuits,

a box of mixed biscuits,

and a biscuit mixer.

How much caramel can a canny canonball cram in a camel if a canny canonball can cram caramel in a camel

Chester Cheetah chews a chunk of cheap cheddar cheese.

Richard’s wretched ratchet wrench.

Thin sticks, thick bricks

A quick witted cricket critic

If Pickford’s packers packed a packet of crisps would the packet of crisps that Pickford’s packers packed survive for two and a half years?

Did Dick Pickens prick his pinkie pickling cheap cling peaches in an inch of Pinch or framing his famed French finch photos?

Crash Quiche Course

Excited executioner exercising his excising powers excessively.

Now, please, read the following tongue twisters aloud.

A canner exceedingly canny,

One morning remarked to his granny,

“A canner can can

Anything that he can,

But a canner can’t can a can, can he?”

Catch a can canner canning a can as he does the cancan,

and you’ve caught a can-canning can-canning can canner!

New cheese, blue cheese, chew cheese, please.

Cheerful Charlie chose a cheesy chowder.

Did cheerful Charlie choose a cheesy chowder?

If cheerful Charlie chose a cheesy chowder,

How cheerful was Charlie after he chose the cheesy chowder?

A cheeky chimp chucked cheap chocolate chips in the cheap chocolate chip shop.

All I want is a proper cup of coffee,

Made in a proper copper coffeepot.

You can believe it or not

I want a cup of coffee

In a proper coffeepot.

Tin coffeepots or

Iron coffeepots,

They’re no use to me.

If I can’t have a

Proper cup of coffee

In a proper copper coffeepot

I’ll have a cup of tea!

If a good cook could cook cuckoos so fine

And a good cook could cook cuckoos all the time,

How many cuckoos could a good cook cook

If a good cook could cook cuckoos?

A curious cream-colored cat crept into the crypt and crept out again.

Did the curious cream-colored cat creep into the crypt and creep out again?

If the curious cream-colored cat crept into the crypt and crept out again,

Where’s the curious cream-colored cat that crept into the crypt and crept out again?

If you cross a cross across a cross,

Or cross a stick across a stick,

Or cross a stick across a cross,

Or cross a cross across a stick,

Or stick a stick across a stick,

Or stick a cross across a cross,

Or stick a cross across a stick,

Or stick a stick across a cross,

What a waste of time!

I would if I could.

If I couldn’t, how could I?

I couldn’t if I couldn’t, could I?

Could you if you couldn’t, could you?

Adverbs in English

Adverbs are very much alike adjectives — they have the same function (to describe) but we use them with verbs, never with nouns. They answer the question HOW?

For example: He speaks slowly. (– How does he speak? – Slowly.)