- •Isbn 978‐5‐8429‐0533‐1
- •Практическая фонетика английского языка
- •Contents
- •1St year revision
- •Direct address
- •Complex sentences
- •Direct speech
- •Apposition
- •Parenthesis
- •Enumeration
- •Adverbial modifier
- •Exclamations
- •Prepositions
- •Compound sentences
- •Compound verbs
- •14. Alternative questions
- •15. Disjunctive questions
- •Intonation Patterns
- •Read the following dialogues. Express the suggested attitudes.
- •Make up a conversation using the following phrases.
- •Mark the intonation, draw the staves and transcribe the following sentences, dividing into rhythm groups.
- •4. Mark the intonation in the following text and read it.
- •Listen and take b’s part in this conversation. Use a falling tone in each case to show that you agree or have understood.
- •Listen to the conversation again. Say a’s part aloud, using a rising tone on each final phrase to check that b understands.
- •Listen to the conversation. Indicate falling, rising or fall-rising tones on the words in bold. Say the b’s part aloud, using the same tones.
- •Listen to this conversation and notice how the woman verbally encourages the man to keep talking.
- •Listen to the recording, fill in the gaps. Read the text ‘Windsor Castle Tourist Guide’
- •Informational style
- •Informational narrative read aloud
- •May Week in Cambridge
- •Listen, indicate intonation and read the news.
- •Practice reading the following news items.
- •Listen and repeat the French words in coloumn a. Then try to match them with the brief definition in coloumn b. Use the example sentences below the table.
- •Listen to a person speaking about the weather in Montana (in the usa). Write what the person says, but miss out the ‘throw away’ words.
- •Listen to four people. Write their favourite ‘throw away’ words.
- •Underline the ‘throw away’ words in the text. Read the text aloud, saying the underlined expressions fast and in a low voice. Record yourself.
- •Listen to these sentences. Underline ‘throw away’ words.
- •Fill the gaps with the words well or anyway. Then listen and check.
- •Introducing the speaker
- •Prepare to deliver a speech for the situations below. These situations are only described in outline. Use your imagination to supply any details you need.
- •Listen to the presentation, indicate intonation, read the text. Prepare to deliver a presentation of your own.
- •You will hear a woman telling an anecdote. As you listen, notice
- •Use these outlines to tell the anecdotes.
- •Intonation etc.
- •Read the text.
- •Prepare Round-Table-Talk. Chose a role, build up arguments, participate in the discussion.
- •Intonation etc.
- •The chaos
- •Appendix 1
- •Appendix 2 English Vowels
- •Types of reading English vowels
- •English Consonants
- •Номинации
- •Prominent function words
- •Variant 1
- •Variant 2
- •Variant 3
- •Variant 4
- •Variant 5
- •Variant 6
- •Variant 7
- •Variant 8
Variant 8
When are you going to visit your parents?
(Low Pre-Head) + Falling Head + Low Fall + (Tail)
I firmly believe you’ll be better off without him.
(Low Pre-Head) + Stepping Head + Low Fall + (Tail)
Many happy returns!
(Low Pre-Head) + High Level Head + Low Fall + (Tail)
Very well done!
(Low Pre-Head) + Falling Head + Low Rise + (Tail)
I’ve told Andy about the meeting.
(Low Pre-Head) + Stepping Head + Low Rise + (Tail)
Open the window.
(Low Pre-Head) + High Level Head + Low Rise + (Tail)
Ann was wearing a charming blue hat.
(Use Accidental Rise on the word in bold type)
Will she go to the Caucasus or to the Crimea next summer?
You don’t speak Hungarian, do you?
Anyhow, things aren’t as bad as you imagine.
I’m glad to hear it.
(Low Pre-Head) + Fall-Rise + (Tail)
When he went to sea, he did not inform anyone of it.
It’s not forbidden, by the way.
Darling, don’t be angry with me?
Isn’t it a pretty thing, Nick?
They said: “Our seats were in the orchestra stalls.”
“It’s not possible”, was the opinion he offered.
At the theatre you can get the best of everything – an excellent orchestra, famous conductors and celebrated singers.
He doesn’t really mean it?
(Low Pre-Head) + Low Level Head + Low Rise + (Tail)
How did you manage to do that?
(Low Pre-Head) + Rising Head + High Fall + (Tail)
You’re looking very tired.
(Low Pre-Head) + Falling Head + High Fall + (Tail)
You, wife - me, pop star
I have lately been contemplating the up and down life of a 'just pop' man. I do not mean Elvis, Tom or Englebert, who don't sing opera, just pop. 1 mean me and all the other victims of 'just pop the kettle on...' 'Just pop upstairs...' 'Just pop down to the bread shop...' and all the other 'just pop' tricks.
'Just pop' is closely related to the 'While you're on your feet...' trap and 'Before you sit down...' and should always be viewed with extreme caution. Wives, mothers - indeed the whole of the female species - are great users of it.
I've been 'just popping' ever since I was a lad, and my marriage has been popping along for years, with me the pop star. Here a pop, there a pop, everywhere a pop-pop.
The very words 'just pop...' are designed, of course, to diminish any task in the eyes, or rather ears, of all right-thinking people, thus making protest impossible, or at the least churlish. This is the first law of'just pop...'
The second law is that the tone of voice accompanying the request is also pitched a semi-octave lower, a low murmur in fact, and delivered in a throw-away, deprecating manner to fool the 'poppee' into further complacency about the task before him. In this way he can finish up doing no end of dreary jobs.
(Errands and tasks that started out with a smile and a casual 'Just pop...' have involved me in miles of walking, hours of toil and untold expense, of which I, the naive 'poppee', had no hint.)
Only the other day I was jolted to hear the words slipping easily off the lips of one small daughter. 'If you're going out, daddy, would you just pop into the library and get me a couple of books on Paris? We're doing a project.' The library was a mile out of my way and books on Paris in the geographical section were like needles in a haystack.