CD 1Pieces

‘I’ sound pronounced ‘eye’

High in the Pine tree

‘ah’ sound

The Farmer works very hard

Martial arts help to strengthen my arms

‘ay’ sound

Babies like to play in the rain.

Stay and help me bake my cake

Babies, play, rain, stay, bake and cake

‘I’ sound

Sit in the seat

He is in the little car’

‘OH’ sound

He gave a groan and then a moan because he bumped his funny bone

Ends of words

Bed, beg, ben, bet, bell, beth

The cat sat in my hat on the mat

I don’t like hot chocolate

Can you lend me twenty pounds for later

‘th’ sound

My other little brother did something wrong

The weather is very hot, it is above thirty degrees.
I hope my health doesn’t suffer

This is my finger This is my thumb

Stress

,I can go. I can go. I CAN go. I can GO.

From The Copper Beeches by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

Mr. Holmes, from the moment that I understood that there was something about that suite of rooms which I was not to know, I was keenly on the lookout for any chance to pass the forbidden door.

"It was only yesterday that the chance came. I turned the key gently in the lock, opened the door, and slipped through.

"There was a little passage in front of me, which turned at a right angle. Round this corner were three doors in a line, the first and third of which were open. They each led into an empty room.

The centre door was closed, and across the outside of it had been fastened one of the broad bars of an iron bed, padlocked at one end to a ring in the wall, and fastened at the other with stout cord.

The door itself was locked as well, and the key was not there.

As I stood in the passage gazing at the sinister door and wondering what secret it might veil, I suddenly heard the sound of steps within the room and saw a shadow pass backward and forward against the little slit of dim light which shone out from under the door.

A mad, unreasoning terror rose up in me at the sight, Mr. Holmes. My overstrung nerves failed me suddenly, and I turned and ran--ran as though some dreadful hand were behind me clutching at the skirt of my dress. I rushed down the passage, through the door, and straight into the arms of Mr. Rucastle, who was waiting outside.

"'So,' said he, smiling, 'it was you, then. I thought that it must be when I saw the door open.'

"'Oh, I am so frightened!' I panted.

"'My dear young lady! my dear young lady!'-- you cannot think how caressing and soothing his manner was -- 'and what has frightened you, my dear young lady?'

But his voice was just a little too coaxing. He overdid it. I was keenly on my guard against him.

"'I was foolish enough to go into the empty wing,' I answered. 'But it is so lonely and eerie in this dim light that I was frightened and ran out again. Oh, it is so dreadfully still in there!'

"'Only that?' said he, looking at me keenly.

"'Why, what did you think?' I asked.

"'Why do you think that I lock this door?'

"'I am sure that I do not know.'

"'It is to keep people out who have no business there. Do you see?' He was still smiling in the most amiable manner.

"'I am sure if I had known--'

"'Well, then, you know now. And if you ever put your foot over that threshold again'--here in an instant the smile hardened into a grin of rage, and he glared down at me with the face of a demon--'I'll throw you to the mastiff.'

From Disneys version of Cinderella

‘Oh dear’, said Cinderella.

‘I will never have time to mend my dress.’

‘They make Cinderelly work, work, work,’ said a fat mouse named Gus.

‘She will have no time to fix her dress,’ said a skinny mouse named Jack.

‘We can do it!’ cried the mice.

‘We can fix Cinderelly’s dress.’

Gus and Jack sneaked into a big room.

The step sisters were dressing for the ball.

‘I hate this old sash’, said Driscilla and she threw it down on the floor.

‘I never want to see these beads again,’ said Anastasia and she dropped them on the floor.

Jack grabbed the sash.

Gus picked up the beads.

They took them to Cinderella’s room.

‘Look! We found these,’ said Gus.

‘Now we can make Cinderelly’s dress REALLY pretty,’ said Jack

They measured.

They cut.

They folded.

They sewed.

They worked and worked as fast as they could.

The hours went by quickly.

When Cinderella opened the door, she saw something wonderful.

Her dress was ready

‘Surprise!’ cried the mice.

‘It is the prettiest dress I have ever seen,’ said Cinderella.

And she put it on.

The Table and the Chair by Edward Lear

Said the Table to the Chair,
'You can hardly be aware,
'How I suffer from the heat,
'And from chilblains on my feet!
'If we took a little walk,
'We might have a little talk!
'Pray let us take the air!'
Said the Table to the Chair.

Said the Chair to the table,
'Now you know we are not able!
'How foolishly you talk,
'When you know we cannot walk!'
Said the Table with a sigh,
'It can do no harm to try,
'I've as many legs as you,
'Why can't we walk on two?'

So they both went slowly down,
And walked about the town
With a cheerful bumpy sound,
As they toddled round and round.
And everybody cried,
As they hastened to the side,
'See! the Table and the Chair
'Have come out to take the air!'

But in going down an alley,
To a castle in a valley,
They completely lost their way,
And wandered all the day,
Till, to see them safely back,
They paid a Ducky-quack,
And a Beetle, and a Mouse,
Who took them to their house.

Then they whispered to each other,
'O delightful little brother!
'What a lovely walk we've taken!
'Let us dine on Beans and Bacon!'
So the Ducky and the leetle
Browny-Mousy and the Beetle
Dined and danced upon their heads
Till they toddled to their beds.

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