These are the cunning questions, which concern me deeply for more than twenty years. I am, to say the least, no scientific expert — there are plenty of

Others who seem to know a great deal more about the subject than I do. But I uld like to raise a few questions. I've gradually come to believe that we nnot solve our environmental problems simply by coming up with yet more swers based on technology alone. Every so-called solution seems to unleash whole new generation of problems. What interests me is the debate going

on beneath the actual issues. It's the debates about values — about what we

Mean by things like wealth, progress, and growth.

3 1.3. Listen to the pragmaphonetic variant of Video-Target 2, where some of the most important peculiarities of English speech are specially brought out and pragmalinguistically modelled:

1) the energetic articulation of stressed syllables (especially the closed ones);

2) the intensification of consonants as part of English syllabification;

3) the exaggerated stress-timed rhythmical pattern;

4) the greater clarity of pitch-movement within the Descending Scale contour and before pauses (against the general background of slowed down tempo);

5) the greater resonance of enunciation.

——— 3.2. Syllables, Stress, Rhythm, Prosody —

3.2.1. Divide the text into fully-meaningful and syncategorematic ones.

— Mark off the fully-meaningful words by underscoring them in the printed text.

— Which of the words of either group is going to be stressed and why?

3.2.2. Listen to the text and comment on the pronunciation of the stressed syllables in the following words:

economic dramatic whatever gradually

value precious political scientific

anything stretches technological issues

animals devastating excessively every

desolate decades toxic

attitude technology acid

— What are the basic principles that have to be followed here?

Transcribe these words, dividing them into syllables (use the English Pronouncing Dictionary for this purpose).

How is the text divided into parts by means of pauses?

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