Владимир Аракин - Практический курс английского языка 3 курс [calibre 2.43.0]

"You aren't going to die."

"I heard him say a hundred and two."

"People don't die with a fever of one hundred and two." (E.Hemingway)

I sat down and opened the Pirate book and commenced to read but I could see he was not following, so I stopped.

"About what time do you think I'm going to die?" he asked. (E.Hemingway)

"A five shilling book of stamps, please, and a large registered envelope."

"Will this size do?"

"I'm told one ought to see the British Museum."

"Do you think I shall have time for that?"

"I think the best way from here is to walk across Regent's Park."

"Is it much of a walk?"

However I'm quite ready to enter your name should your answers be what a really affectionate mother requires, Do you smoke?

(O.Wilde)

Now to minor matters.

Are your parents living? (O.Wilde)

"And where is that?"

"Down here, sir."

"Would you put us up?"

"Oh, I think we would." "Will you show us the way?" "Yes, sir."

"Are you a Devonshire girl?" "No, sir."

"Have you lived here long?" "Seven years." (J.Galsworthy)

(On the boat.) This way for the Dover boat. Have your passports ready, please. Pass up the gangway. First class on the right,

second class on the left.

2. Listen to the situations again. Find sentences pronounced with Intonation Pattern XV. Define their communicative type and the attitudes

expressed by them.

3. Listen carefully to the sentences with Intonation Pattern XV and repeat them in the intervals. Make your voice start very low and rise

gradually on stressed syllables, then end with high or medium rise reaching the highest possible level.

4. In order to fix the intonation of the rising head + High Rise in your mind, ear and speech habits repeat the sentences with this pattern

yourself until they sound perfectly natural to you

5. .Listen to your fellow-student reading these sentences. Tell him what his errors in the intonation are.

6. This exercise is meant to compare the Intonation Patterns XIV and XIII (rising Head + High Rise and high Head + High Rise). Read the

following fragments with both Intonation Patterns. Observe the difference in attitudes.

He flushed and said: "Are you Miss Barlow?"

She said: "Aren't you Doctor Page's new assistant?"

He said: "Don't you realize it's quite against the rules to have him here?"

She said: "If Idris had stopped off, he'd have missed his milk, which is doing him such a lot of good."

She answered stubbornly: "If you don't believe me, look for yourself."

He laughed contemptuously: "That may be your idea of isolation. I'm afraid it isn't mine."

He warned her: "If you don't obey my instructions I'll have to report you." (AJ.Cronin)

"And now I have a few questions to put to you, Mr. Worthing. While I'm making all these inquiries, you, Gwendolen, will wait for me

below, in the carriage." (O.Wilde)

"I know nothing, Lady Bracknell."

"I'm pleased to hear it. I do not approve of anything that tampers with natural ignorance." (O.Wilde)

"She needs awakening."

"Are you going to awaken her?" (J.Galsworthy)

Well, Robert, have you made up your mind yet what you want to do when you leave college? ("Meet the Parkers")

"Do you like dancing?"

"Yes, very much. Do you dance?"

"What do you think I ought to see first?"

"Do you like art galleries?"

7.

This exercise is meant to show the difference in the pronunciation of the same replies with the rising head and the high head + High

Rise. Read the following replies with both intonation patterns. Observe the difference in attitudes they render

Can I keep this book a bit longer?

Are you going to keep it for a couple of weeks?

We ought to follow his advice.

Must we always follow his advice?

I've just been playing badminton.

If you had a good time I can't blame you for being late for

Whose photo do you think this is?

lunch.

Oh, you broke the window!

You don't seem to recognize the photo of your own father.

They're supposed to be different.

If I did it on purpose you could scream like that.

He says he made up his mind.

Are they really different?

They're late again.

Does he really mean what he says?

Don't take any notice of them.

8. Think of your own examples (5 for every communicative type) pronounced with Intonation Pattern XIV. Use them in conversational

situations.

9. Listen to the extract from "The Apple-Tree" by J. Galsworthy (see p. 251). Find sentences pronounced with Intonation Pattern XIV. Observe

the attitudes expressed by them.

10. Listen to your teacher suggesting the contexts. Respond by using Intonation Pattern XIV.

She doesn't look a day over thirty.

Does it matter all that much?

He's a good chap. It's absolute truth.

Can I count on that? What makes you think so?

We've both got the same answer.

Are you sure enough?

There's somebody's bag in the car.

What are you going to do about it?

I shall be at home by tea-time.

Would you believe it?

How did you manage to do it?

What makes you think so ?

Now, isn't that peculiar?

Are you sure enough? Would you believe it? But is it likely?

How do yoy_know it's there?

Who's going to believe it?

Are you sure enough?

Do you really mean it?

How can you know exactly? What makes you think so ?

11.

This exercise is meant to develop your ability to hear and reproduce the intonation in proper speech situations.

Listen to the dialogue "On the Boat" sentence by sentence. Mark the stresses and tunes. Practise the dialogue.

Record your reading. Play the recording back immediately for your teacher and fellow-students to detect the errors in your pronunciation. Practise

the dialogue for test reading and memorize it.

Pick out of the dialogue sentences pronounced with Intonation Pattern XIV. Use them in conversational situations.

12.Give conversational situations with the phrases of the following type.

This way to...

I think I shall, one of these days ...

Pass up t h e . . .

It couldn't possibly be worse than ...

Here we are!

Yes, just.

Would you like to ...

Well, I suppose we'd better get ready for ...

Oh, I don't know ...

I say, you haven't got anything ... , have you?

I'm not much of a ...

I don't think I'm quite as foolish as that.

Oh, you won't be ... today.

As a matter of fact I don't think I have ...

We're sure to ...

Still, thanks, all the same ...

Oh well, I'll risk it, but if the worst comes" to the worst, don't

blame me. ... but frankly I didn't enjoy it.

Why don't you ...

13. Think of the possible situations in which phrases pronounced with Intonation Pattern XIV can be used according to the meaning

expressed by them.

14. This exercise is meant to develop your ability to read a text with proper intonation and give a summary of it.

1. Listen to the extract from "The Man of Destiny" by B. Shaw (see p. 179) sentence by sentence. Mark the stresses and tunes. Observe the

peculiarities in intonation-group division, pitch, stress and tempo. Practise reading it.