- •Unit 1. Mass Media
- •Learn and practice:
- •Revise:
- •Press Preferences
- •Starspotting
- •Unit 2. Theatre
- •Learn and practice:
- •Revise:
- •A Date for the Theatre
- •After the Cinema
- •Theatres, Music-Halls and Cinema
- •6. Read the following dialogues, put stress-tone marks on them using different types of scales and practice reading them.
- •Antony’s Address to Romans “Julius Caesar”
- •Unit 3. Medicine
- •Nursing a Sick Husband
- •Sleep (V. Evans, p. 30)
- •A Visit to the Doctor
- •A Anyway, I suppose ___ heard about Mark and Sonia?
- •Unit 1. Travelling
- •Sea or Air (p. 26)
- •Detailed Directions
- •Travelling
- •The News
- •From a Railway Carriage
- •Booking Airline Tickets (p.28)
- •Unit 2. London.
- •Learn and practice:
- •Revise:
- •Unit 3. Great Britain.
- •Learn and practice:
- •Revise:
- •Informational, declamatory and scientific phonostyles.
Unit 3. Medicine
Learn
and practice: The High
Fall, complex tones, the High Rise. Revise: Classification
of English vowels and consonants. Word and phrase stress.
1. Listen to the dialogue, put stress-tone marks. Practice reading and reciting the dialogue. (Headway, p.39)
Find sentences with the High Fall and the Fall-Rise. How are they different from the others?
A How are Judith and Timothy Thorpe’s triplets?
B Those three? Well… both Heather and Cathy are very healthy, but I think they’re having rather a lot of trouble with Matthew.
A With Matthew? What’s the matter with Matthew?
B Teething troubles, I think, and then he won’t eat anything.
A Teething troubles? But how old are the triplets now?
B I think they’re about thirteen months.
A Thirteen months? Oh, I thought they were a lot younger than that.
B No, they must be thirteen months because it was their first birthday at the end of last month – on the thirtieth… or was it the thirty-first?
A Oh, dear, and I didn’t send them anything, not even a birthday card… I wonder what Judith and Timothy thought?
B Don’t distress yourself, dear, they didn’t say anything to me…
2. Listen to the dialogue; find sentences with the Sliding and Scandent scales and define their type.
Pay attention to the sentences with the Fall-Rise and the Rise-Fall. How do they sound? Transcribe the sentences in bold and draw tonograms to them. Learn the dialogue by heart.
Nursing a Sick Husband
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Harry
Nora Harry
Nora
Harry
Nora Harry
Nora
Harry
Nora Harry
Nora
Harry Nora
Harry
Nora Harry Nora
Harry
Nora
Harry Nora Harry |
̎Noˌra!|| ˌˌNoˡra!|| ͵Yes,| ‛what is it ˎnow, ˏHarry?|| 'Oh, t̖here you ˏare.|| ˋLook here, ˏNora.|| I’m tired of lying here on my back with 'nothing to ˎdo.|| I hate doing ˋnothing.|| Don’t be ͵silly, ֹHarry.|| ‾You’ve ‚got a ̀temperature.|| And 'staying in ˎbed| is the ↗only ↗sensible ↗thing to ˎdo.|| Now 'just be ͵quiet| and 'stop pre'venting me from ↗doing ↗my ˋhousework.|| ̷No,| ˎseriously, ˏNora,| I "can’t ˎbear it,| 'lying 'flat on my ˎback!|| ̷Well, ˎthen| ↗try ͵lying on your ˋstomach| for a ˋchange.|| ˌStop being ˎfunny.|| I’m 'going to ·get ˎup.|| ˎThere,| ˋlook,| I’m 'standing ˎup.|| I’m 'quite all ˎright.|| 'What’s the 'use of ʹstaying in ˎbed?|| I 'think ‚you are ‚being ↑very ˎsilly.|| You’ll ˆonly ‚make your ‚temperature go ‚up a̗gain. It’s 'no ‚use ˎtalking, ˏNora,| ↗being ↗ill 'doesn’t ˋsuite me.|| ˋNo,| ˉand 'trying to ˋnurse you| ↗doesn’t ↗suite ˎme.|| Now, ↷don’t be ↷bitter a̗bout it.|| You ˈknow I’m ˈgrateful ˏto you| for ˈlooking ˏafter me.|| But you ↗mustn’t ↗try to ↗keep me in ,bed 'like a "naughty ˎboy.|| ˎWell,| 'you beˋgan it| by beˋhaving 'like a 'naughty ˎboy.|| I’m 'all aˎgainst this| 'staying in ˎbed| for 'no ˎreason.|| ˎHarry,| 'being ˏill| ˎis a ˎreason…|| Now 'don’t ˎstand by that ˏwindow| and ˈcatch aˎnother ˏcold.|| ˈLet me ˎsee…| ˈhalf ˈpast eˎleven…|| ˈWhy do you ˑkeep ˈlooking at the ˎclock?|| I’m exˈpecting ˋmother.|| She is coming ˋover| for the ˋday.|| ˈGood ˎheavens!|| I ‚didn’t ‚know ̬that.|| `Yes,| I ˈthink she has ˈsomething she wants to ˋtalk to you a,bout.|| 'Oh, ˎheavens,| ˏhas she?|| ˎOh…|| You ˎknow, ‚Nora,| I ˎdo ,feel a bit ˏill.|| Perˈhaps I ̬had ˙better get ˙back to ˙bed.|| ˈOh,| ˈwhat a ˎpity!|| I ↷thought per↷haps you ↷might stay ↷up to ˋsee her.|| ,That’s the ,very ̬reason| I’m ˌgetting ˙back into ˎbed.|| ͵What did you ˙say?|| ̀Oh… ˏer…| ˋno͵thing.|| |
3. Read the following passage, translate it and lay stress-tone marks according to the rules. Use the High Fall, the Fall-Rise and the High Rise where possible. Practice reading it about 10 times as fast as you can.