It seems that the first part of English is a Tough Stuff is selling like a pancake :p, so I am giving you the second part of the poem. If you haven’t perfected the first part, just keep on reciting those and watch out for the pronunciation.
Practice reading the poem first, then check out the words you don’t understand, and search for the meanings of those words. Then try to use them in your own sentences. So, in this second part, you can do two English exercises, pronunciation and vocabulary development. Write your sentences using the new vocabulary you learned from this poem in the comment box too.
Now, here’s the second part of the poem:
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.)
Now I surely will not plague you
With such words as plaque and ague.
But be careful how you speak:
Say break and steak, but bleak and streak
Listen here:
Watch out for the pronunciation of these words:
heart – beard – heard
sword – sward
plague – plaque – ague
break – bleak
steak – streak
To do this exercise, go to the comment section below this post and click “Video Comment”. You don’t need a webcam to record, a microphone is enough.
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great! just one word:
plague – /pleyg/
He had a heart to heart talk with his parents
He asked the hairdresser to can his hair and shave his beard
I heard that you are travelling a broad
Take your sword and come face me
The ball was running on the sward
The sad news plagues the atmosphere
In front of his office there was a plaque on which it is indicated his name
He had a terrible ague last night that he couldn’t sleep at all
Don’t break my heart
It’s a bleak house with a gloomy atmosphere
What do you want to have in dinner, beef steak or lamb chop?
He usually streaks downtown when he is free
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Please note the pronunciation of these words:
diet – /dI-ut/
latter – /la-tur/
He asked the hairdresser
to canto cut his hair and shave his beard.I heard that you are travelling
a broadabroad.The ball was
runningrolling on the sward.In front of his office, there
wasis a plaqueon which it is indicatedwith his name.