duce intonation in reading. Listen to the text “My Bedroom” sentence by
sentence. Write it down. Mark the stresses and tunes. Practise the text for
test reading.
18. Read the text “About Myself” silently to make sure you understand
each sentence. Split up each sentence into intonationgroups if necessary.
Underline the communicative centre and the nucleus in each phrase. Mark
the stresses and tunes. Use Intonation Pattern V in the wordgroups in bold
type to intensify the meaning of these communicative centres. It is not
expected that each student of the class will mark the text in exactly the
same way. Your teacher will help all the members of the class to correct
their variants. Finally practise reading your corrected variant:
About Myself
I’m a student of English. I have been a student only two
months and a half. I can’t speak English well yet. I’m just a be
ginner, you know. I live in a hostel. It is rather a long way from
the University. In fact, it is in the country and it takes me about
an hour and a half to get to the University. But it gives me no
trouble at all, as I like to get up early. I don’t need an alarmclock
to wake me up. I am an earlyriser, as they say.
Though our hostel is out of town it is very comfortable and
has all modern conveniences.
As a rule I get up at 6.30, do morning exercises and have a
shower. I don’t have a bath in the morning, I have a bath before
I go to bed.
For breakfast
I have a boiled egg and a cup of coffee. At
about 7.30 I am quite ready to go. It is about a five minutes’ walk
from the hostel to the station. I usually take the 7.40 train. I walk
to the station as I have plenty of time to catch my train.
I come to the University five minutes before the bell rings.
So I can have a chat with my friends. Only four students of our
group are Muscovites, the others either come from different
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