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[  i  ]                               / I /                         it     

                                     /a I /                 I              13

Sean lives in a big house by (/baI/) the sea.                                

He likes to go for a dip (/dIp/) in the mid of the day.

He mixes around

He always invites his friends,

Bip, Jip, Nick and Tip to go for a swim.

They like to sing (sIŋ) when they swim.

They sink (sIŋk) when they stop singing.

They like to sit by the poolside

to sing and think (/θIŋk/).

They think it fun to sit (/sIt/)

in the sun to sing and think.

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Group the words with / I / vowel speech sound.

[ i ]               / I /, / aI /               it , I  14

        Sean thinks Bip is really thin (/θIn/).                                           

He always carried a big tin (/tIn/)

when he goes for a swim.

He puts everything in the tin

and closes it with a lid

and locks it with a key.

[ i ]       / I / , / aI /   it, I     15

        Jip is not thin.                                                           

He wants to be slim.

He believes he can be slim

when he always goes for a swim.

He likes to walk up the hill

with his brother, Bill.

He always feels ill (/Il/) at ease

when he walks down the hill.

[ i ]               / I /, /aI/          it, I           16    

Tip is not so thin, either (/ˈaIðǝ(r)/).   (/ˈi:ðǝ(r)/)          

But he always looks so pink

He blinks and winks a lot

when he is sick /sIk/.

He likes to go for a swim to keep fit.

He is always so happy

whenever he can go for a dip.

[ i ]               / I /, / aI/         it, I                                   17

Nick is a little bit fat.                                                          

He knows it.

He decides (/dIˈsaIdz/) to reduce some weight.

He thinks swimming can help him

keep fit and slim.

He likes to flip (/flIp/) in water.

He likes to pinch (pInʧ) his nose

and keeps his lips really tight (/taIt/)

in the act of flipping in water.

He can do it for 2 minutes (ˈmInIts).

He feels delighted to do it.

Sean thinks himself is in between

Bip and Jip in weight and height.

[ i ]               / I /, / aI /       it, I   18

Sean, Bip, Jip, Nick and Tip have heard

the story about 5 fat women (/ˈwImǝn/).

One woman (/ˈwumǝn/) is really fat. 

She is called Mick

She is at least 5 Nicks in weight.

She is 2 Nicks in height.

Nick is only eight.

The woman is thirty plus eight.

She often slips and falls.

She needs the other four fat women (/ˈwImən/)

to lift (/lIft/) her up to her feet (/ fi:t /).

[ i ]               / I /, / aI /                  it, I         19    

Mick has a really big hip.                                            

She always goes for a trip (/trIp/)

to town on a fine day.

But she always has a hard time (taIm)

to find a chair in town

where she can sit down to take a sip

before she goes for a dip.

[ i ]       / I /, / aI /       it, I           20

The five women Mick, Pik, Rick, Silk and Vick

are good friends. 

They all carry a walking stick. 

They always walk about

with click-tick sounds.

Sometimes they grip the tip

of the sticks of one another.

They walk in a file to form a link (/lIŋk/).

Sometimes they form a ring (rIŋ)

to gossip or sing (/sIŋ/).

They make a lot of hissing (/ˈhIsIŋ/) sounds.

At times they all give hilarious (hIˈleǝrIǝs) laugh.

Then they will sling (/slIŋ/) their walking sticks.

And they fall into hysterical (hIˈsterIkl) laugh.

They laugh and laugh until they turn stiff (/stIf/).

[ i ]        / I /, /aI/         it, I           21

Vick has to prick (prIk) them

to stop laughing for a while (/waI/).                     

Mick quickly takes out

the pickled (ˈpIkld) lime to lick.

Her action tickles (ˈtIklz) others

to laugh even more.

They are like practising

‘laughing yoga’ in a ring in public (/ˈpLblIk/).

[ i ]               / I /, / aI/                it, I           22

Some teenage boys and girls happen

to be beside (/bIˈsaId/) them.              

They are roaring into laughter

at the sight (saIt) of 5 fat women laughing hysterically.

Their mouths are wide (/waId/) open

as big (/bIg/) as a hippopotamus

when they laugh side by side

with so much delight (/dIˈlaIt/).

The five fat women turn still and stiff

 to hear roaring laughter beside them

they pick up their walking sticks

and take a brisk (/brIsk/) walk away in a file (/faIl/).

They are singing (/ˈsIŋIŋ/) in chorus

 “A Happy Wander” side by side (/saId/)

to go for some cool refreshing drinks

and then for a swim.

Minimal pairs varying in length     / i: /   / I /

        / i: /                  / I /             23

1.             eat                    it             

2.             beat                  bit            

3.             bead                 bid

4.             been                 bin

5.             deep                 dip

6.             feat, feet           fit

7.             feel                   fill

8.             green                        grin

9.             heat                  hit

10.            heap                 hip

11.            heal                  hill   

12.            jeep                  jip

13.            peat                  pit

14.            peak                 pick

15.            read                  rid

16.            real                   rill

17.            reap                  rip

18.            seek                  sick

19.            seal                   sill

20.            seen                 sin

21.            seat                  sit

22.            sheep                ship

23.            sleep                 slip

24.            teak                  tick    

25.            teen                  tin

26.            week, weak       wick