13.*** This exercise is meant to develop your ability to hear the intonation and reproduce it in proper speech situations. a) Listen to the dialogue “Days and Months. Asking the Time” sentence by sentence. Write it down. Mark the stresses and tunes. Practise the dialogue. b) Record your reading. Play the recording back immediately for your teacher and fellowstudents to detect the errors in your pro nunciation. Practise the dialogue for test reading and memorize it. Section Four Section Four Section Four Section Four Section Four Intonation Pattern IV (LOW PREHEAD +) DESCENDING HEAD+ LOW RISE (+ TAIL)
M o d e l 1: Alice is leaving. —
only got to buy something for / supper. (LOW PREHEAD +) HIGH LEVEL HEAD + LOW RISE (+ TAIL)
M o d e l : Don’t be so slow. — I’ll →
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try to be / quicker. This intonation pattern is used:
1. I n s t a t e m e n t s , not categoric, nonfinal, soothing, re
assuring, (in echoes) questioning, sometimes surprised.
e. g. I’ve made a lot of mistakes
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not so / bad. in my dictation, haven’t I?
He’s already left.
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ready / left.
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2. In questions:
a) I n s p e c i a l q u e s t i o n s , expressing sympathy, inter
est; with the nuclear tone on the interrogative word, puzzled.
e. g. I’m leaving tomorrow.
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