Consonant

[w]
Fradkova Anastasia, группа 5 АН
 To make it, start by rounding
Articulation your lips. Vibrate your vocal cords,
and widen your lips, spreading them
into the shape of vowel that follows
the /w/ in the word.
The back part of the tongue is
raised towards the soft palate at the
back of the roof of the mouth.
  According to the manner of articulation –
constrictive

 According to the degree of noise – sonorant

Characteristics  to the work of the vocal cords – voiced

 to the force of articulation – weak (lenis)

 to the place of articulation – Labial (bilabial)

 to the position of the soft palate – oral

 The [w] sound is usually spelled with the letter
‘w,’ or as letter blend ‘wh’ 
Occurence  what /wɒt/
 work /wɜːk/

Also as part of the sound made by the letters

‘qu,’ which is pronounced /kw/ as in:
 question /’kwestʆən/
 quick /ˈkwɪk/

Also, in a few words the /w/ sound doesn’t

have any letters, like:
 one /wʌn/
Equivalent in
This sound does not exist in the Russian
Russian language

 BUT it is easily borrowed in proper

nouns like Уильям, Уимблдон, Уайлд
 Tongue twisters

1. How
4. Whymuch wood
do you cry,would
WIlly?a woodchuck
2. Wechuck
want ifwaffles
a when we wake
woodchuck
Why do could
you cry?chuck wood? [wiː wɒnt ˈwɒflz wɛn wiː weɪk]
[haʊ mʌʧ wʊd wʊd ə ˈwʊdˌʧʌk ʧʌk ɪf ə ˈwʊdˌʧʌk kʊd ʧʌk wʊd?]
Why, WIllie? Why, Willie?
Why, Willie? Why? 3. Who washed Washington’s white
5. When we win we will whistle wildly woollen underwear when
[wɛn wiː wɪn wiː wɪl ˈwɪsl ˈwaɪldli] Washington’s washerwoman went
[waɪ duː juː kraɪ, ˈwɪli? west?
waɪ duː juː kraɪ? [huː wɒʃt ˈwɒʃɪŋtənz waɪt ˈwʊlən 
waɪ, ˈwɪli? waɪ, ˈwɪli? ˈʌndəweə wɛn ˈwɒʃɪŋtənz ˈwɒʃə
ˌwʊmən wɛnt wɛst]
waɪ, ˈwɪli? waɪ? ]
 Poems
The sea awoke at midnight from its sleep, ænd raʊnd ðə ˈpɛbli ˈbiːʧɪz fɑːr ænd waɪd
And round the pebbly beaches far and wide aɪ hɜːd ðə fɜːst weɪv ɒv ðə ˈraɪzɪŋ taɪd
I heard the first wave of the rising tide rʌʃ ˈɒnwəd wɪð ˌʌnˌɪntəˈrʌptɪd swiːp;

Rush onward with uninterrupted sweep; səʊ kʌmz tuː ʌs æt taɪmz, frɒm ði ʌnˈnəʊn

So comes to us at times, from the unknown ænd ˌɪnækˈsɛsəbl ˈsɒlɪtjuːdz ɒv ˈbiːɪŋ,

And inaccessible solitudes of being, ðə ˈrʌʃɪŋ ɒv ðə siː-taɪdz ɒv ðə səʊl;

The rushing of the sea-tides of the soul; ænd ˌɪnspəˈreɪʃənz, ðæt wiː diːm ˈaʊər əʊn]

And inspirations, that we deem our own

[ðə siː əˈwəʊk æt ˈmɪdnaɪt frɒm ɪts sliːp,

 Poems
Woman much missed, how you call to me,
call to me,
Saying that now you are not as you were
When you had changed from the one who
was all to me,
But as at first, when our day was fair.
Can it be you that I hear? Let me view you,
then,
Standing as when I drew near to the town
Where you would wait for me: yes, as I
knew you then,
Even to the original air-blue gown!
[ˈwʊmən mʌʧ mɪst, haʊ juː kɔːl tuː miː
kɔːl tuː miː,
ˈseɪɪŋ ðæt naʊ juː ɑː nɒt æz juː wɜː
wɛn juː hæd ʧeɪnʤd frɒm ðə wʌn huː
 wɒz ɔːl tuː miː,
bʌt æz æt fɜːst, wɛn ˈaʊə deɪ wɒz feə
kæn ɪt biː juː ðæt aɪ hɪə? lɛt miː vjuː juː, 
ðɛn,
ˈstændɪŋ æz wɛn aɪ druː nɪə tuː ðə taʊ
n
weə juː wʊd weɪt fɔː miː: jɛs, æz aɪ njuː 
juː ðɛn,
ˈiːvən tuː ði əˈrɪʤənl eə-bluː gaʊn!]
 Idioms

 a wake-up call – an event that makes people more aware of a danger

[ə weɪk-ʌp kɔːl]

 the writing on the wall – signs that a person or organization is in trouble

and might soon fail [ðə ˈraɪtɪŋ ɒn ðə wɔːl]

 a war of words – a long argument or dispute [ə wɔːr ɒv wɜːdz]

 off the wall – strange or unusual [ɒf ðə wɔːl]

 waste one’s breath – speaking but what you're saying is being ignored or
having no effect [weɪst wʌnz brɛθ]
Academic text
The westerlies – are prevailing winds from the west toward the east in the middle
latitudes. The westerlies are strongest in the winter hemisphere and when the pressure is
lower over the poles, while they are weakest in the summer hemisphere and when
pressures are higher over the poles. The westerlies are particularly strong in the Southern
Hemisphere (called also 'Brave West winds'), in areas where land is absent. The
westerlies play an important role in carrying the warm, equatorial waters and winds to
the western coasts of continents, especially in the southern hemisphere because of its vast
oceanic expanse.

[ðə ˈwɛstəliz – ɑː prɪˈveɪlɪŋ wɪndz frɒm ðə wɛst təˈwɔːd ði iːst ɪn ðə ˈmɪdl ˈlætɪtjuːdz. ðə
ˈwɛstəliz ɑː ˈstrɒŋgɪst ɪn ðə ˈwɪntə ˈhɛmɪsfɪər ænd wɛn ðə ˈprɛʃər ɪz ˈləʊər ˈəʊvə ðə pəʊlz,
waɪl ðeɪ ɑː ˈwiːkɪst ɪn ðə ˈsʌmə ˈhɛmɪsfɪər ænd wɛn ˈprɛʃəz ɑː ˈhaɪər ˈəʊvə ðə pəʊlz. ðə
ˈwɛstəliz ɑː pəˈtɪkjʊləli strɒŋ ɪn ðə ˈsʌðən ˈhɛmɪsfɪə (kɔːld ˈɔːlsəʊ breɪv wɛst wɪndz), ɪn
ˈeərɪəz weə lænd ɪz ˈæbsənt. ðə ˈwɛstəliz pleɪ ən ɪmˈpɔːtənt rəʊl ɪn ˈkæriɪŋ ðə wɔːm, ˌɛkwə
ˈtɔːrɪəl ˈwɔːtəz ænd wɪndz tuː ðə ˈwɛstən kəʊsts ɒv ˈkɒntɪnənts, ɪsˈpɛʃəli ɪn ðə ˈsʌðən
ˈhɛmɪsfɪə bɪˈkɒz ɒv ɪts vɑːst ˌəʊʃɪˈænɪk ɪksˈpæns]