Автор уникальных технологий изучения языков Денис Иванович Ершов предлагает новое пособие, которое поможет в кратчайшие сроки научиться говорить на английском языке. Достоинство пособия – оптимальное сочетание грамматических сведений и лексического материала. Для работы с книгой необходимы базовые знания английского языка и уровень владения им выше среднего. Книга создана для студентов языковых и неязыковых вузов, а также для учителей и преподавателей иностранных языков. Учебник предназначен для тех, кто мотивирован изучить английским языком и использовать его как реальное средство общения и межкультурной коммуникации. В пособии задействованы достижения когнитивной лингвистики для лучшего понимания и усвоения английского языка.
(Урок №1/Lesson 1)
The author of the textbook: Let me introduce the main instructors of our course. They will be teaching you English day in and day out, from lesson to lesson, throughout this book.
The first teacher we will be introducing is a dog named Charles. Throughout the course, Charles will teach you the pronunciation of English sounds, letters and phonemes.
The second teacher we would like to introduce is a cat named Jasper. Jasper will teach you English grammar.
The third colleague we are thinking of getting to know is a parrot named Fluffy. Fluffy will teach you how to read English texts, as well as the basics of stylistics and other aspects related to this language.
The fourth friend we hope to get acquainted with is a rabbit named Azure. It will introduce you to the basics of English vocabulary and help enrich your vocabulary. You will learn how to make it active and start using it in communication and intercultural interaction. Azure will introduce you to the world of English lexicology and all the elements that make it up, helping you to expand your vocabulary. It will also help you to move words from the passive to the active category, allowing you to participate in communication and intercultural exchange.
Charles: – Hi there, my name’s Charles. Today, I’d like to talk about the phonetic structure of the English language. Can you tell me what you think it is, and how it differs from the phonetic structure of your native language, Russian?
Jasper: – Hi Charles, My name is Jasper and these are my friends Fluffy and Azure. We are all interested in learning about different aspects of the language and although we are not experts in phonetics, we would like to learn more about this area. Could you please help us? Thank you for your time. Best regards, Jasper, Fluffy, and Azure.
Charles: Great! I’ll be happy to explain this and answer any other questions you may have about phonetics and phonology. The phonetic structure of English is quite unique, and learning it presents significant challenges for speakers of Russian, both in terms of sounds and intonation. Mastering the pronunciation of a foreign language requires learning how to accurately produce the sounds of that language, both individually and in connected speech, as well as correctly using intonation in sentences. The phoneme system forms the basis of the sound system in any language. A phoneme is the smallest unit of sound in a language, and it can be described as a sound or group of sounds that distinguish words and their grammatical forms when contrasted with other sounds in the same context. Each phoneme has its own unique symbol according to the phonetic alphabet. These symbols are usually written inside square brackets: [].
In this lesson, we will be discussing the challenges that scholars face when attempting to describe English sounds from a functional perspective. We will explore what is meant by the quality of a sound and the articulatory characteristics that make up that quality, as well as determining which of these are phonologically significant. There are two main categories of sounds that phoneticians traditionally distinguish in any language: consonants and vowels. This distinction is primarily based on the auditory effect of the sounds. Consonants have a combination of voice and noise, while vowels consist only of voice. From an articulatory perspective, the difference between the two is due to how the speech organs function. In the production of vowels, there is no obstruction, while in the production of consonants, various obstructions are created. Therefore, consonants can be described as having a close articulation. By a complete, partial, or intermittent blockage of the air passage by speech organs, consonants are produced. Consonants have noise as their essential and most defining characteristic. We will now consider each class of sounds separately.
