Imagine that you are preparing a project with your friend. You have found some interesting material for the presentation and you want to read this text to your friend. You have
More than 500 types of fish living around the world can produce electricity. The most dangerous is the electric eel, a long fish that lives in South America. Although it is called an eel, the electric eel is more closely related to catfish than to the common eels. It can live in both types of water, salted and fresh. This snakelike fish gives off electric signals to "see" in the dark water where he lives. These signals bounce off underwater objects and help the eel find fish and frogs to eat. Once the electric eel finds its prey, it fills the water with an electric shock. The organs that produce electricity are in the eel’s tail. The shock stuns or kills any small animals in the area around the eel. The electric charge is so strong that it could also stun a person or knock over a full-grown horse!
Полезно вначале прочитать текст задания про себя; выделить трудные для произношения слова; разметить интонацию; прочитать текст шепотом, а потом вслух, обращая внимание на слитность и беглость речи.
Читая текст, избегайте необоснованных пауз в речи, верно расставляйте ударения и правильно используйте интонацию, не нарушайте нормы произношения слов.
Обратите внимание на чтение этих слов:
— eel — /iːl/;
— common — /ˈkɒm.ən/;
— South America — /ˌsaʊθ əˈmer.ɪ.kə/;
— although — /ɔːlˈðəʊ/;
— snakelike — /sneɪklaɪk/;
— signals — /ˈsɪɡ.nəlz/;
— bounce — /baʊns/;
— organs — /ˈɔː.ɡənz/;
— stun — /stʌn/.