10. The lines below are taken from books by different authors. How do
you think the authors intended them to be stressed and why?
1. “Do you prefer the inside or the outside, John?” I said
I generally preferred to sleep inside a bed. 2. She said slowly: “If
you don’t know, nobody does.” 3. “It’s all very well for you, fel
lows,” he says, “you like it but I don’t.” 4. “I had their promise,
their written promise...” 5. M i s s B e e c h . But your mother
likes him? — J o y . (Sullenly). I don’t want her to like him. 6. “I
say our chairman. Why do I say our chairman? Because he is not
my chairman, you know.” 7. “Speak out,” said Martin, “and
speak the truth.” “I fear this is the truth.” 8. “She’ll be pretty,” he
muttered. “I shouldn’t wonder.” “She is pretty,” said Emily; “she
ought to make a good match.” 9. George said that if anything
was broken, it was broken, which reflection seemed to comfort
him. 10. “Oh!” exclaimed George, grasping the idea; “but we
can’t drink the river, you know!” — “No, but you can drink
some of it,” replied the old fellow. “It’s what I’ve drunk for the
last fifteen years.”
11. Look for similar situations in your books for home reading.
12. This exercise is meant to develop your ability to hear and
reproduce intonation in proper speech situations. a) Listen to the dialogue
sentence by sentence. Mark the stresses and tunes. Practise reading it. (See
p. 219) b) Record it. Play the recording back immediately for your teacher
and fellowstudents to detect the possible errors. c) Give a conversational
context with the following phrases:
1. Do you think it’s ... . 2. Don’t speak too soon. 3. Don’t
worry, (Robert) ... . 4. Never mind. 5. Oh, dear, ... .
13. Make up a conversation with the same phrases.
14.*** This exercise is meant to develop your ability to hear the into
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