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Listen to the replies and repeat them in the intervals. Make your voice rise from a medium level to a high pitch.
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Listen to the Verbal Context and reply to it in the intervals.
In order to fix High Rise in your mind, ear and speech habits, pronounce each reply several times until it sounds perfectly natural to you.
Listen to a fellow-student reading the replies. Tell him (her) what his (her) errors in pronunciation are.
6. listen to your teacher reading the Verbal Context below. Reply by using one of the drill sentences. Pronounce it with Intonation Pattern XII. Say what attitude you mean to render:
| Verbal Context | Drill |
| I'm twenty-two today. | Really? |
| I like the way he speaks. | You do? |
| I believe he is in St. Petersburg now. | In St. Petersburg? |
| They spent the whole day on the beach. | The whole day? |
| Will you pass me the pencil, please. | The red one, you mean? |
| It's getting warmer. | You think so? |
| Where are you going? | Where? |
| How much do I owe you? | How much? |
| Why couldn't you warn me? | Why couldn't I? |
| How do you like his new essay? | His new what? |
| I'm exhausted. | You're what? |
| What did he promise that day? | What did he promise? |
| He is a talented young man. | Is he? |
| I'm afraid I can't believe it. | Can't you believe it? |
| We don't blame him for all that. | You don't? |
| I can't force him to go there. | Can't you force him? |
| They haven't changed anything here. | Haven't they? |
| I enjoyed every minute of it | Did you? |
| Splendid) | Splendid? |
| Show him out! | Show him out? |
| Give it up! | Give it up? |
| Disgusting! | Disgusting? |
| Hurry up! | Hurry up? |
| Leave it as it is! | Leave it? |
7. Respond to the following sentences. Use Intonation Pattern ХП casing for a repetition of the information already given.
Model: This sad story made the listeners cry.
— æMade the 'listeners 'do 'what?
I want you to ring me up again.
You æwant me to 'do 'what?
The boy's behaviour made me think he was ill.
His stare made me feel ill at ease.
The rain made us return home.
The cold made us put on our coats.
The play made us laugh a lot.
His letter made me change my plans.
The foreigner wants me to tell him something about my country.
She wants you to leave her alone.
He wants you to start immediately.
She wants her son to enter the University.
He wants us to go there at once.
He wants me to translate this article.
This exercise is meant to develop your ability to near and reproduce intonation in different speech situations.
a) listen to the dialogue "At the Station" carefully, sentence by sentence. Write it down. Mark the stresses and tunes. Your teacher will help you to correct your variants. Make a careful note of your errors in each tune and work to avoid them. Practise reading each sentence of your corrected variant after the cassette-recorder.
B) Record your reading. Play the recording back immediately for the teacher and your fellow-students to detect your errors. Practise the dialogue for test reading. Memorize it. Play it with a fellow-student.
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9. Make up conversational situations, using the following phrases:
Try and find me... if you can. You're due to arrive at....
Have you got your... yet, sir? Well, I've still got a few
Not yet. minutes to spare.
Come along with me and I'll... Mind you don't miss the....
Here it is. That's all right.
Do I have to...? It won't take me more than
Here you are. five minutes to....
What time do we get to...?
10. Read the following dialogues. Define the communicative type of the sentences and say what attitudes you mean to convey:
— There you are, then, I thought you might be here earlier. Was your train late?
— No, I don't think so; just about on time. Which one did you think I was catching then?
— Wasn't it the one that gets in at five ten?
— No, that's Saturdays only. Didn't you know?
— Of course, how silly of me, anyway, it doesn't matter.
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— Excuse me, will this road take me to the station?
— Yes, straight on. Turn to the left when you get to the end. You'll see a notice there. You can't go wrong.
— Is it far?
— About three or four minutes.
— Thank you very much.
Make up a dialogue of your own, using some of the phrases from the dialogues above.
12. Read the following sentences. The prompts in brackets will help you to determine the position of the logical stress. Make up a situation to prove the position of the logical stress:
We are going second class. (Not first)
I want a return ticket to Oxford. (Not single.)
What time do you get up in summer? (I usually get up at seven.)
What shall I do with his luggage? (I know what to do with yours)
Can I have a try? (Nobody seems anxious to do it.)
He ran all the way to the station. (He was afraid to be late.)
I saw Mary at the theatre yesterday. (Nor John.)
I'd like to have some tea. (Not Tom.)
I asked the porter to see to my luggage. (Nor you.)
13. Listen to the text on the tape ("Commerce and Industry"). Write it down. Mark the stresses and tunes. Practise the text.
14. Read the following sentences. Use Intonation Patters VI to single out the subject:
Model: \Bri/tain │ is one of the most important commercial and trading centres in the world.
Australia is the smallest continent in the world.
Manchester is one of the most important industrial cities in Great Britain.
Oxford is one of the oldest centres of education.
Washington is the capital of the United States.
Mary is my best friend.
The piano is to the right of the window.
England is a highly developed industrial country.
15. This exercise is meant to develop your ability to hear the intonation and reproduce it in proper speech situations.
a) Listen to the text "Mother's Day" sentence by sentence. Write it down. Mark the stresses and tunes. Practise the text.
B) listen carefully to the narration of the text Observe the peculiarities in Intonation-group division, pitch, stress and tempo. Note the use of temporizers. Reproduce the model narration of the text.
16. Read the text "May Day" silently to make sure you understand each sentence. Split up each sentence into intonation groups if necessary. Mark the stresses and tones. Underline the communicative centre and the nuclear word of each intonation group. It is not expected that each student will intone the text in the same way. The teacher will help you to correct your variant
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Practise reading the text several times.
Retell the text in your own words:
May Day
For over 100 years now May Day has been recognized in some countries of the world as the workers' day. It is the day on which workers in these countries master their strength, and demonstrate their determination to struggle to achieve the demands which happen to be particularly pressing and urgent.
Last year's May Day in Britain broke new ground in two ways.
It was the largest-ever demonstration to be held on May 1 itself in addition to the traditional demonstrations on May Sunday.
But it was more than a demonstration. It assumed the character of a national strike, involving hundreds of thousands of workers who downed tools in London and a number of other major cities.
It was the culmination of an unprecedented campaign directed against the Government's intentions to put the clock back a century and more on trade-union rights.
It was a high point in the continuous struggle of the trade unions for the unfettered right to use the strike weapon in furthering the interests of their membership.
It was a historic May Day not only in the role it played in achieving the immediate demand of retaining the sovereignty and independence of the unions.
Above all, the flexing of their muscles and the victory achieved the following July, gave the workers of Britain a new sense of confidence and a deeper understanding that one hour of action is worth more than a thousand hours of argument and pleas for justice.
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