What prosodic means are used in different cases of accent in the text?
3.2.10. Comment on the use of:
— Low-Falling tones in the text;
— Low-Rising tones in the text;
— Mid-Falling tones in the text;
— High-Falling tones in the text;
— Falling-Rising tones in the text.
3.2.11. Comment on the modifications of tempo, loudness and pitch in the following parts of the text:
And certainly of no economic value: you couldn't grow anything on it, you couldn't keep animals here — no one would want to live in such a iesolate place";
"There are no easy answers — political, or technological — to the environmental crisis";
"It has been extraordinary to witness the surge of interest that there has been in the subject over the last couple of years: the ozone layer, marine pollution, toxic waste, acid rain, global warming";
"These rather fateful phrases have gradually become part of our daily lives";
"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".
— What is the function of these modifications in each of these cases?
3.2.12. Comment on the modifications of tempo, loudness and pitch in the following parts of the text:
"...there are no easy answers — political, or technological — to the environmental crisis";
"...I am, to say the least, no scientific expert".
— 3.3. The English Articulation Basis — Sounds —
3.3.1. Listen to the way the words in boxes 1 and 2 are said by the speaker on the tape.
— Find their transcription in the 'English Pronouncing Dictionary':
years environmental
moor even
importance exists
economic extraordinary
desolate excessively
recently alarmist
precisely ozone
precious marine
wilderness toxic
devastating acid
decade concern
impact scientific
crisis expert
conclusion interest
tempted couple_________
What is the basic peculiarity of the consonants in the stressed syllables of the following words that makes them so completely different from their Russian counterparts?
few
certainly
precisely
excessively
say
— How does the English Articulation basis affect these consonants?
— Study consonants of the same class in some other words from the text:
growth interests
subject toxic
desolate crisis
dismissed last
least acid
based precious
place exists
expert case
waste wealth
suddenly seem
stretch progress
such beneath
3.3.3. What is the basic peculiarity of initial nasals in the stressed syllables of the following words:
mean
moor
no
know
economic
dramatic
made
me (in 'what interests me...')
technology
beneath
remote
most
more
new
— What makes these consonants so completely differen