Make up a dialogue of your own, using some of the phrases from the dialogues above.
12. Read the following sentences. The prompts in brackets will help you to determine the position of the logical stress. Make up a situation to prove the position of the logical stress:
We are going second class. (Not first)
I want a return ticket to Oxford. (Not single.)
What time do you get up in summer? (I usually get up at seven.)
What shall I do with his luggage? (I know what to do with yours)
Can I have a try? (Nobody seems anxious to do it.)
He ran all the way to the station. (He was afraid to be late.)
I saw Mary at the theatre yesterday. (Nor John.)
I'd like to have some tea. (Not Tom.)
I asked the porter to see to my luggage. (Nor you.)
13. Listen to the text on the tape ("Commerce and Industry"). Write it down. Mark the stresses and tunes. Practise the text.
14. Read the following sentences. Use Intonation Patters VI to single out the subject:
Model: \Bri/tain │ is one of the most important commercial and trading centres in the world.
Australia is the smallest continent in the world.
Manchester is one of the most important industrial cities in Great Britain.
Oxford is one of the oldest centres of education.
Washington is the capital of the United States.
Mary is my best friend.
The piano is to the right of the window.
England is a highly developed industrial country.
15. This exercise is meant to develop your ability to hear the intonation and reproduce it in proper speech situations.
a) Listen to the text "Mother's Day" sentence by sentence. Write it down. Mark the stresses and tunes. Practise the text.
B) listen carefully to the narration of the text Observe the peculiarities in Intonation-group division, pitch, stress and tempo. Note the use of temporizers. Reproduce the model narration of the text.
16. Read the text "May Day" silently to make sure you understand each sentence. Split up each sentence into intonation groups if necessary. Mark the stresses and tones. Underline the communicative centre and the nuclear word of each intonation group. It is not expected that each student will intone the text in the same way. The teacher will help you to correct your variant