1. Read the following sentences observing the intonation of the word ‘please’. Intone them and indicate the intonation on the staves:

1. Please, listen a minute to Kitty.

2. Could you, please, fetch a new whiteboard marker?

3. Please, switch on the tape-recorder.

4. Will you rewind the tape, please?

5. Will you, Mark, please, read Text Eight?

6. Will you read louder, please?

7. Please, make your reading more distinct.

8. Open your copy-books, please.

9. Clean the board, please, and go to your seat, Jane.

10. Please, write all the words in transcription.

11. Transcribe the dialogue, please.

12. Will you, please, listen to the dialogue and intone it?

13. Let me treat you to some more pie. – Yes, please.

14. May I come in? – Do, please.

15. Shall I open the window? – Yes, please. It’s rather stuffy in here.

2. Read the following extracts of conversations with proper intonation:

1) A: Hi, Mary! You look wonderful!

B: Thank you, I’m so flattered.

A: Would you like to go for a walk with me?

B: No, thank you. I’m so sorry, but I must be going now.

2) A: Shall I fetch the cassette-recorder, Mr. Brown?

B: Yes, please, Mary. Thank you.

A: Can I help you with anything else?

B: No, thank you. Perhaps some other time.

3) A: Have you seen my teddy-bear anywhere here?

B: Oops! Here it is.

A: Oh! Thank you ever so much.

4) A: Here is your house, Mrs. Popes. And here are your heavy bags.

B: Thank you, John.

A: Please, make somebody help you when you go shopping.

B: Oh, I will. Thank you very much.

5) A: Benny, here’s your milk!

B: Thank you, Granny! Can I have some cookies with my milk?

A: Of course you can. Fetch some for me, please.

3. Make up a dialogue using the intonation patterns from the rule.

VIII. Adverbials

At the beginning of the sentence adverbials are stressed, form a separate intonation group, and are pronounced with the rising or falling-rising tone.

Adverbials at the end of the sentence do not form a separate intonation group and are pronounced as an unstressed tail of the preceding intonation group.

1. Read the following sentences. Observe the rule:

1. In the dining-room we have our meals.

2. On the sideboard the Browns usually have a vase.

3. On the top of the roof there are three chimneys.

4. There is a tall book-case next to the piano.

5. There are two cushions on the settee.

6. In the table I keep all my papers.

7. You can see a standard lamp on the right.

8. In January we have our term exams.

9. We begin our studies in September.

10. I fell asleep after a few minute.

2. Read the dialogue, mark the intonation:

Elsa: Patrick, what do you all do every day?

Patrick: Do you really want to know? Well, on Monday we begin our work for the week. On Tuesday Mother usually cleans the kitchen. Then on Wednesday, we send our dirty linen to the laundry; Mother doesn’t wash it. My Father often brings his friends home to dinner on Thursday. My club holds meeting once a week on Friday. And on Saturday we all go to the cinema.