Write a letter of thanks to your aunt, your cousin, or a friend, acknowledging a birthday gift. Before you write your letters, look again at those you have just read. This envelope is addressed to Ned Wilson's Cousin John. Draw envelopes like this one for the letters of Stuart Lomas, Sylvia Lent, and Gilbert Ross, and address each, following the model exactly. Miss Lewis lives at 1028 Cathedral Street, Baltimore, Maryland. Sylvia's and Gilbert's aunt, Miss Rose Browne, lives at 16 Knob Hill, San Francisco, California. Draw another envelope for your letter of thanks. Address it. What do you put in the upper left-hand corner? 60 USING THE VOICE W In the exercise on page 26, you learned that the sound wh is made by pushing the lips forward, rounding them into a small opening, and then blowing through them, as in whistling. W is made in the same way as wh, except that the h is lacking, and a throat sound or murmur is added. Say way, want, word. Rest your fingers lightly on your throat, so as to note the throat vibrations in speaking w. BREATHING EXERCISE 1. Take the position for the breathing exercise. 2. Form your mouth for speaking w-lips forward and rounded, with small opening. 3. Breathe in gently and deeply. 4. Blow out, making the sound of w. 5. Repeat ten times. Keeping your position, repeat after your teacher the following sentences. 1. The wind wailed like a weeping child. 3. We wonder at the wisdom of great men. 61 A WORD MATCH 1. Select leaders for two sides. 2. Each member of the class will join one side or the other. Write all the words beginning with w that you can find in the poems in your book. 3. Your teacher will give you ten minutes to write them. 4. Each side will then read the lists in turn. 5. The leader on each side will write the words on the blackboard as those on his side are slowly read. 6. The side that has the greatest number of different words will win the match. 62 FOR READING THE WONDERFUL WORLD Great, wide, beautiful, wonderful World, The wonderful air is over me, And the wonderful wind is shaking the tree— From The Wonderful World. Write down all the words in these stanzas beginning with the w sound. Notice that there is one wh sound. nounce it like w. Do not pro Read aloud your list of words carefully, watching the position of your lips. Now read the stanzas to the class slowly and clearly. Remember that you are speaking to the World, telling him how wonderful he is. Read as if you were talking. See if you can find at home a poem with a number of w words in it. Bring it to class, if you find one. 63 SPEAKING CLEARLY Practice these expressions until you form the habit of speaking them clearly. 1. What's the matter with him? 2. Where was he when you saw him? 3. What are you going to do about it? 4. What did he say to you? 5. Wait just a minute, won't you? 6. What do you think of that? 7. What did you do with it? 8. Where did you get it? 9. Won't you let him go with us? 10. What was he doing? 11. Where did you go yesterday? 16. Don't you know when he's coming? 17. I don't know anything about it. 18. He just this minute went out of the room. 64 TELLING HOW TO MAKE THINGS How I MADE MY PLAYHOUSE The other day I tried my hand at building a playhouse. I fastened together four boards so as to make an open square, placed three more boards across the top, and then covered the whole with shingles. This queer roof I nailed on two upright posts and a part of the back fence. It was hard work. I bent my nails and bruised my fingers over and over again. At last, however, my playhouse was finished. Some day I am going to make two chairs and a table for my playhouse. -A Pupil. You have all had more or less experience in making things. You may not have built a playhouse as this boy did, but you have probably made something. |