B) Get together with another student. Listen to his/her reading. What recommendations would you give to correct any mispronunciations?
2. a) Read out aloud the following sentences from the text; divide them into intonation groups using proper intonation patterns; observe stresses, strong and weak forms. Make them sound rhythmically correct:
1. I am looking for a young woman of color [k0lq] whose name is Sarah, he said. 2. She is said to reside [ri'zaid] in one of these houses.
3. He was a stocky man with a red-complected shining brown face, high cheekbones ['7i:kbquns] and large dark eyes so intense as to suggest they were about to cross. 4. Mother, not thinking clearly, was suddenly outraged that he had presumed to come in the door. 5. The colored man took another glance at the child, rose, thanked her and departed. 6. One Sunday the colored man left a bouquet of yellow chrysanthemums which in this season had to have cost him a pretty penny (= a large amount of money). 7. Mother said he was well-spoken[28] and conducts himself as a gentleman. 8. It was important, he said, for a musician to find a place that was permanent, a job that required no travelling. 9. He had heard [hiqd] it in his nightlife period in New York. 10. Well, he said, it appears as if Miss Sarah will not be able to receive me.