Яков Аракин - Практический курс английского языка 2 курс

down. Mark the stresses and tunes. Your teacher will help you to correct your variant. Practise

reading each sentence of your corrected variant after the cassette-recorder.

b) Record your reading of the dialogue. Play the recording back immediately for the

teacher and your fellow-students to detect your errors. Practise the dialogue for test reading.

c) Make up conversational situations with the following phrases:

Well, what's the matter with ...?

You'd better ask me what is not the matter with me, ...

To make things still worse ...

In fact...

d) Make up a talk about illnesses and their treatment, using phrases from the dialogue

above. Work in pairs.

e) Imagine you are consulting a doctor — tell him what troubles you. Imagine you are a

doctor. You diagnose the case as quinsy. Tell your

patient what he should do to get well.

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

intonation in reading.

a) Listen to the text carefully, sentence by sentence. Write down the text. Mark the

stresses and tunes. The teacher will help you to correct your variant 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 text for test 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:

Doctor, Dentist and Chemist

If you have toothache, you should go to your dentist. He'll examine your teeth, and if the

aching tooth is not too far gone, he'll stop it. If it is too bad, he'll take it out.

If you don't feel well, you should consult a doctor. If you feel too ill to go to the doctor's,

you'll have to send for him. He'll ask you to describe to him the symptoms of your illness. Then he'll

feel your pulse, look at your tongue and examine you thoroughly. Finally he'll prescribe the

treatment and write out a prescription.

Doctors' prescriptions are made up by a chemist. At chemists' shops in the USA you can also

get patent medicines of all kinds, lotions, tonics, cough-mixtures, baby-foods, aspirin, pills,

ointment, bandages, adhesive plaster and so on. You can buy razors and razor-blades, vacuum-flasks,

hot water bottles, sponges, tooth-brushes and tooth-pastes, powder-puffs, lipsticks, shaving-soap and

shaving-brushes and a hundred and one other things.

If you are interested in photography, you can also get cameras and films at most chemists'.

They'll develop and print your films for you, too. Some chemists are also qualified opticians, and if

your eyesight's faulty they'll test your eyes and prescribe glasses for you.

16. This exercise is meant to develop your ability to hear intonation and

reproduce it in different speech situations.

a) Listen to the joke "One day Mrs. Jones went shopping...", sentence by sentence. Write it

down. Mark the stresses and tunes. Practise the joke for test reading.

b) Listen to the narration of the joke. Observe the peculiarities in intonation-group division,

pitch, stress and tempo. Note the use of temporizers. Reproduce the model narration yon have

listened to.

17. This exercise is meant to test your ability to analyse and reproduce

material for reading and retelling.

a) Read the jokes silently to make sure you understand each sentence. Find the sentence

expressing the essence of the joke. Split up each phrase into intonation-groups if necessary.

Locate the communicative centre of each sentence. Mark the stresses and tunes. Practise

reading the jokes.

b) Tell the jokes in your own words:

The Doctor's Advice

Once an old gentleman went to see a doctor. The doctor examined him and said: "Medicine

won't help you. You must have a complete rest. Go to a quiet country place for a month, go to bed

early, drink milk, walk a lot, and smoke just one cigar a day."

"Thank you very much," said the gentleman, "I shall do everything you say."

"Oh, doctor," said the gentleman a month later, "I feel quite well now. I had a good rest. I

went to bed early, I drank a lot of milk, I walked a lot. Your advice certainly helped me. But you told

me to smoke one cigar a day, and that one cigar a day almost killed me at first. It's no joke to start

smoking at my age."

Doctor's Orders

S e r v a n t : Sir, wake up, wake up!

M a s t e r : What is the matter?

S e r v a n t : It's time to take your sleeping tablets.

M r s . B r o w n : Don't you think, doctor, you've rather overcharged for attending

Jimmy when he had the measles?

D o c t o r : You must remember, Mrs. Brown, that includes twenty-two visits.

M r s . B r o w n : Yes, but you forget he infected the whole school!

SECTION THREE. Intonation Pattern X

(LOW PRE-HEAD+) RISING HEAD + HIGH FALL (+ TAIL)

Model: I wonder when Alice's train is due.

—  Look it 'up in thètime-,table.

The syllables of the Rising Head preceding the High Fall gradually carry the pitch up.

Stress-and-tone mark in the text:

The first stressed syllable: ││

This intonation pattern is used:

1 . I n s t a t e m e n t s , conveying personal concern, involvement, disgruntled

protest.

е.g. Haven't you brought the carp? — You didn't ask me ,to.



2 . I n q u e s t i o n s :

a ) I n s p e c i a l questions sounding unpleasantly surprised or displeased,

protesting.

е.g. Send them at once. — Where to?



b ) I n g e n e r a l questions, protesting, sometimes impatient.

е.g. Thursday's a hopeless day for me. — Can't we 'make it àFriday, ,then?

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3 . I n i m p e r a t i v e s , lively, with a note of critical surprise.

е.g. What shall I do? — Try it àgain.

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4 . I n e x c l a m a t i o n s , conveying affronted surprise, protesting.

е.g. John's coming. — What an ex traordinary `thing.

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EXERCISES

1. Listen carefully to the following conversational situations. Concentrate your attention

on the intonation of the replies:

Verbal Context

Drill

Statements

(conveying personal concern or

involvement, disgruntled protest)

I must see Mr. Roberts.

I'm afraid you can't. He's just gone out.

What did you think of the house?

I was rather taken with it. It seems quite nice.

He says he knows nothing about it.

I just can't understand it. I distinctly

remember telling him.

Haven't you finished that book yet?

I've only just begun it.

I'm afraid I failed my exam.