标准美语发音的13个秘诀 CD 4 Track 1

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Review Exercise G: Three-Word PhraseStory—Three Little Pigs CD 4 Track 1 

Notice where there are patterns, where the words change, but the rhythm stays the same (strawcutting tools, woodcutting tools, bricklaying tools). Read the story aloud.

Once upon a time, there were threelittle pigs. They lived with their kindold mother near a large, dark forest. One day, they decided¹ to build theirown houses. The firstlittle pig used straw. He took his straw-cutting tools and his new lawnmower, and built a little straw house. The secondlittle pig used sticks. He took his woodcutting tools and some old paintbrushes and built a small woodenhouse. The thirdlittle pig, who was a veryhard worker, used bricks. He took his bricklaying tools, an expensive mortarboard, and built a large brickhouse. In the forest, lived a bigbad wolf. He wanted to eat the threelittle pigs, so he went to the flimsystraw abodeand tried to blow it down. "Not by the hair of my chinnychin chin !" cried the three little porkers. But the house was notvery strong, and the big bad beast blew it down. The three little pigs ran to the rickety wooden structure, but the bigbad wolf blew itdown, too. Quickly, the threelittle piggies ran to the sturdy brick dwelling² and hid inside. The bigbad wolf huffed and he puffed³, but he couldn't blow the strong brickhouse down. The threelittle pigs laughed and danced and sang.