121 WAYS OF TRAVELING SHOWN IN PICTURES Collect as many pictures as you can, showing different ways of traveling. The following list may suggest the kind of pictures to select. 1. Walking. 2. Horseback riding. 8. The chariot. 9. The stage coach. 10. The emigrant wagon. 11. The carriage. 12. The bicycle. 13. The automobile. 14. The steam car. 15. The trolley car. 16. The airplane. 17. The hydroplane. Make a sentence about each one of your pictures. 122 USING THE VOICE NG IN FINGER 1. Take the position for the breathing exercises. 2. Breathe deeply. 3. Breathe out, making the singing sound of ng. 4. Repeat Exercises 2 and 3 ten times. 5. Now make the sound of hard g, as in go. 6. Form ng, then change quickly to hard g. 7. Again breathe in deeply, then breathe out on the singing sound of ng. 8. Change quickly again from this ng to hard g. This is the sound of ng in finger-singing ng plus hard g. Say the following words after your teacher. finger longer (long has only the singing ng) linger stronger strongest (strong has only the singing ng) Can you think of any other words with this sound of ng? We may call ng in singer and ng in longer, twin brothers who look alike but whose voices are not alike. Read the following sentences, being especially care ful to speak correctly the new sound of ng. 1. Mary's jumping rope is longer and stronger than Dorothy's. Which words contain the new sound of ng? Which word contains the singing sound of ng? 2. Boys and girls should not linger along the way when going to school. Which word has the new sound of ng? Which words have the singing sound of ng? 3. The newsboy's bare hands tingle with the cold on frosty mornings. Which word has the new sound of ng? Say after your teacher: tingle, tangle, tingle mingle, mangle, mingle 123 FOR READING ON A FROSTY MORNING Jack Frost would set a-tingling But merry voices mingling, Plan old Jack Frost's defeat. They know whoever lingers, So laughing, running, leaping, We'll fool Jack Frost," they say. -C. I. Orr. Write the words with the singing sound of ng. Write the words with the other sound of ng. Say them aloud to your teacher and classmates. This sound is marked in the dictionary with a line under the n (n). Find the new sound of ng in other poems or stories in your book. Broken and swum are helped by have, has, and had. Broke and swam are never helped by another word. What do you notice about the forms of the word hurt? Herbert: Hello, George, when did you break your bicycle? Herbert: Did you swim much while you were away? -? The boy taking the part of George must complete the sentences, using the correct word forms in answering Herbert's questions. Write sentences using the different forms of the words. Read your sentences to the class. 125 ASKING QUESTIONS ABOUT A PICTURE Each of you, in turn, may ask a question about the picture. One of you may write the questions on the blackboard as they are asked. Read the questions silently. Study the picture. Answer the questions in writing. From the answers make up a story. 126 BUILDING A VOCABULARY "O, Mother," Dorothy, "I had such a delight ful time with Jane to-day!" "What did you do?" "First," Dorothy She her mother. "I went to Jane's house. that we go to the park for a picnic. Mrs. Brown had to go with us if we would help to |