Яков Аракин - Практический курс английского языка 2 курс

3. Discussion. Opinions

4. Agreeing. Disagreeing

5. Giving Advice

EXERCISES IN INTONATION

SECTION ONE. Review of Fundamental Intonation Patterns and Their Use

I. Read the following conversational situations. Define the communicative type of the replies. Say what attitudes are conveyed in them. Give your own replies to the same conversational contexts;

2. Read the following dialogues. Express the suggested attitudes:

3. a) Listen to the dialogue. Mark the stresses and tunes. Find sense-groups and sentences pronounced with intonation Patterns I, II; III, IV, V, VI, VII, VIII. Say what kind of sentences they are used in. Define the attitudes expressed in them:

b) Record your reading of the dialogue. Play the recording back for the teacher and your fellow-students to detect the possible errors. Practise the dialogue for test reading. Memorize and dramatize it.

c) Make up conversational situations, using the following phrases:

d) Use the same phrases in a conversation.

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

5. This exercise is meant to test your ability to read and reproduce a story with correct intonation.

SECTION TWO. Intonation Pattern IX. High fall

1. listen carefully to the following conversational situations. Concentrate your attention on the intonation of the replies:

2. Listen to the replies and repeat them in the intervals. Start the fall high enough.

3. Listen to the Verbal Context and reply to it in the intervals.

4. In order to fix Intonation Pattern IX in your mind, ear and speech habits, pronounce each reply several times until it sounds perfectly natural to you.

5. Listen to a fellow-student reading the replies and point out his (her) errors in pronunciation.

6. Listen to the Verbal Contest said by a fellow-student. Make your replies sound lovely, warm, airy. Use the proper intonation patterns. Continue the exercise until everyone has participated:

7. Give your own replies to the Verbal Context above. Use Intonation Pattern IX in them.

8. Use Intonation Pattern I in the Drills. Observe the difference in attitudes.

9. This exercise is meant to revise the intonation patterns you already know. Work in pairs.

10. Practise the following dialogues. Use the High Fall in them. Observe the attitudes you convey:

11. Listen to the Verbal Context suggested by the teacher. Reply by using one of the drill sentences below. Pronounce it with Intonation Pattern IХ. Say what attitude you mean to render;

12. Make up a dialogue of your own, using some of the phrases from Ex. 10.

13. This exercise is meant to develop your ability to hear and reproduce intonation in conversation.

14. This exercise is meant to develop your ability to hear and reproduce intonation in reading.

15. Mark stresses and tunes in the following text, listen to the model. Mark the stresses and tunes. Compare your intonation with that of the model. Practise the text according to the model:

16. This exercise is meant to develop your ability to hear intonation and reproduce it in different speech situations.

17. This exercise is meant to test your ability to analyse and reproduce material for reading and retelling.

SECTION THREE. Intonation Pattern X (LOW PRE-HEAD+) RISING HEAD + HIGH FALL (+ TAIL)

7. Give your own replies to the Verbal Context of Ex. 1 and 6. Use Intonation Pattern X.

8. The teacher or one of the students suggests a Verbal Context The students reply to it in turn using:

9. Read the following extracts. Observe the position of the logical stress:

10. Look for similar situations in the books you are reading at the moment

11. This exercise is meant to practise the intonation patterns you already know.

12. This exercise is meant to develop your ability to bear and reproduce intonation in different speech situations.

13. This exercise is meant to revise Intonation Pattern IX. Read the following dialogue. Use the High Fall to express personal concern, involvement:

14. This exercise is meant to develop your ability to hear intonation and reproduce it in different speech situations.

15. This exercise is meant to test your ability to analyze material for reading.

SECTION FOUR. Intonation Pattern XI (LOW PRE-HEAD + ) FALLING HEAD+ HIGH FALL (+ TAIL)

1. Listen carefully to the following conversational situations. Concentrate your attention on the intonation of the replies:

7. Read the following dialogue with a fellow-student» using Intonation Pattern XI. Special questions should sound interested, lively, brisk. The replies sound lively, friendly and warm:

8. A student will read the Verbal Context below. Other students will read the replies in turn, using the High Fall and the logical stress on the same word to make the utterance emphatic. Define the attitude you are trying to express:

9. Listen to your teacher read the context sentences below. Pronounce each of the following replies in two ways: first with Intonation Pattern II, then with Intonation Pattern XI. Observe the intonation line. Convey the suggested attitudes:

10. Listen to a fellow-student say the context sentences below. Pronounce each of the following replies, trying to convey the suggested attitudes. Be careful with the intonation line. Define the Intonation Pattern of your reply:

12. This exercise is meant to develop your ability to hear and reproduce intonation in conversation.

13. Translate into English. Use the corresponding phrases from item(d) above. Do not let your Russian pronunciation habits interfere:

14. Head the following dialogue:

15. Make up a dialogue of your own, using some of the phrases of the dialogue above.

16. This exercise is meant to develop your ability to read and retell a story with correct intonation.

17. This exercise is meant to test your ability to analyze and reproduce material for reading and retelling.

SECTION FIVE Compound Tunes FALL + RISE

7. Say the following sentences with a) the High Fall + the Low Rise; b) the Descending Head + the Low Rise. Observe the difference in attitudes:

8. Give your own replies to the Verbal Context of Ex. 1 and 6.

9. Read the following situations. Convey the attitudes suggested in brackets:

10. Listen to the dialogue on the tape ("Dinner-table Talk"). Pick out sentences containing the High Fail + the Low Rise. Say what attitude is conveyed in them. Use these sentences in conversational situations of your own.

11. Listen to the Verbal Context and express sympathy in the replies. Use the proper intonation pattern:

12. This exercise is meant to develop your ability to hear and reproduce intonation in conversation.

13. Make up conversational situations, using the following phrases:

14. Make up a dialogue about your future profession.

15. This exercise is meant to develop your ability to hear intonation and reproduce it in reading and narration.

16. This exercise is meant to test your ability to analyze and reproduce material for reading and retelling.

SECTION SIX Compound Tunes TWO OR MORE FALLS WITHIN ONE SENSE-GROUP

1. Listen carefully to the following conversational situations. Concentrate your attention on the intonation of the replies:

7. The teacher will suggest the Verbal Context of Ex. 1 and 6. The students will reply to it, using Sliding Head + High Fall. The drill continues until every student has participated. Keep the exercise moving on rapidly.

8. Listen carefully to the following conversational situations. Concentrate your attention on the intonation of the replies. Note all the prominent words of the bead:

15. Read the following sentences expressing the attitudes suggested in brackets. Use them In conversational situations of your own;