Make statements to be corrected according to the model above. The drill will continue until every student has participated. Keep the exercise moving on rapidly.
This exercise is meant to develop your ability to bear the intonation and reproduce it in proper speech situations.
a) listen to the dialogue "Sports and Games Popular in England", sentence by sentence. Write it down. Mark the stresses and tunes. Practise the dialogue.
B) Record your reading of the dialogue. Play the recording back immediately for the teacher and your fellow-students to detect your possible errors in pronunciation. Practise the dialogue for test reading and memorize it.
C) Pick out of the dialogue sentences containing compound tunes and the logical stress.
d) Make up conversational situations about sport, using the following phrases:
What would you say were Oh, yes, any amount.
the most popular...? You should join if you're
Well, I suppose.... keen on....
What about...? I think I shall if I get the
I should say that.... chance....
Then there are, of course.... By the way....
I've been told that.... Well, I do, but...
Is there any... to be had near...?
Make up a dialogue of your own, using phrases from the dialogue above.