12. Listen to the dialogue. Mark the stresses and tunes. Practise and memorize it: E l s a : Patrick, what do you all do every day?
P a t r i c k : 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
clothes to the laundry; Mother doesn’t wash them. On Thursday
my Father often brings his friends home to dinner. My club
holds a meeting once a week, usually on Friday. And on Satur
day we all go to the cinema.
13. Make up a microdialogue of the same kind. Your fellowstudent will suggest a question. Respond using the proper sequence of tunes. Continue the talk. 14.*** This exercise is meant to develop your ability to hear and reproduce intonation. a) Listen to the text sentence by sentence. Mark the stresses and tunes. Practise the text. b) Record your reading. Play the recording back immediately for your teacher and fellowstudents to detect the possible errors. Practise the text for test reading. The Browns’ DiningRoom In the diningroom we have our meals: breakfast in the
morning, lunch in the middle of the day, tea in the afternoon,
and supper or dinner in the evening.
Here you see Mr. and Mrs. Thompson who’ve just arrived
from abroad and are having dinner with the Browns. The host,
Mr. Brown, is sitting at the head of the table, and the hostess,
Mrs. Brown, is at the other end. Mr. and Mrs. Thompson are
sitting on either side, facing each other.
The diningroom table is covered with a white cloth. Mrs.
Brown has laid the table in the usual way, and has put the right
number of knives, forks, spoons and glasses for each person.
There’s also pepper and salt, oil and vinegar, and mustard. On
the left of each person is a tablenapkin and a plate with a roll
on it. In front of the host there’s a carvingknife and fork.
On the sideboard the Browns usually have a bowl of fruit:
apples, pears, plums, cherries, grapes, oranges or bananas,
according to the season. The mistress of the house has just
served the soup. After this there’ll be fish, meat or poultry with
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vegetables, then a sweet, and perhaps cheese and biscuits to
finish with.