Speaking clearly. Improving voice and articulation: Фонетический практикум. Фомиченко Л.Г. - 47 стр.

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Tim.          Hello, Bill.
Lyn.          Are you ill, Tim?
Tim.          Is it an interesting film?
Lyn.          It’s «Big Jim and the Indians».
Bill.         And it begins in six minutes.
Mrs Smith.    If you’re ill, Tim …
Tim.          Quick! Or we’ll miss the beginning of the film!

       An expensive holiday /e/
Eddie.         Hello, Ellen! Hello, Ben! Hello, Jenny!
Ben.           Hello, Eddie. Have a cigarette.
Eddie.         Thanks, Ben.
Ellen.         Help yourself to whisky.
Jenny.         It’s on the shelf.
Ben.           How did you spend your holiday, Eddie?
Eddie.         I went to America with a friend.
Everybody.     Well!
Ellen.         We’re all jealous.
Ben.           Was it expensive?
Eddie.         Yes. Very. I’ve spent everything.
Jenny.         Haven’t you any money left?
Eddie.         Yes, Jenny. Ten pence!

      A bad hijacker /+/
Hostess Bradley. Alice! Perhaps that passenger is a hijacker!
Hostess Allen.     Which passenger, Anne? That sad man with
                   a camera? He’s wearing black slacks and a jacket.
Hostess Bradley. No. That fat lady with the big black handbag
                   in her left hand.
Hostess Allen.     Is she standing next to the lavatory?
Hostess Bradley. Yes. She’s travelling to Amsterdam.
Hostess Allen.     You’re mad, Anne, I don’t understand.
Hostess Bradley. You see, when she went into the lavatory she
                   didn’t have that handbag in her left hand, and
                   now she’s ...…
Fat lady.          (clapping her hands) Everybody stand!
                   I’m a hijacker. And in this handbag I have a .… ..
Handbag.           BANG!