11.*** This exercise is meant to develop your ability to read a text with
proper intonation. a) Listen to the text “The Big Stores” sentence by
sentence. Mark the stresses and tunes. Practise reading the text. b) Record
your reading. Play the recording back immediately for your teacher and
fellowstudents to detect your possible errors. c) Practise the story for test
readings:
The Big Stores
I went into one of the big London stores today and enjoyed
myself very much, just wandering from one department to an
other, looking at the various articles on the counters. I thought
the assistants were very helpful. There must have been some
hundreds of salesmen and saleswomen and dozens of different
departments, including china, haberdashery, confectionery,
hardware and even provisions. I went from one department to
another — from umbrellas to gloves, from fancy goods to lace —
up and down, in lifts and on escalators. As I was going through
the book department, I was surprised to meet an old friend of
mine, whom I hadn’t seen for years. We went up to the restau
rant and had lunch together.
We didn’t finish lunch until half past two. Then we did some
shopping together. I helped her to buy some presents for her
children. I can’t tell you how glad we were to see each other
again. We used to be very great friends. I hadn’t seen her for —
let me see — ten or twelve years, at least.
12. This exercise is meant to develop your ability to read and narrate a
story with proper intonation. a) Listen to the joke. Write it down. Mark the
stresses and tunes. Practise reading the joke. b) Listen carefully to the
narration of the joke. Observe the peculiarities in intonationgroup division,
pitch, stress and tempo. Note the use of temporisers. Retell the joke
according to the model you have listened to.
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