II. Use of rhythmic structures

A) Read the following utterances using the most suitable rhythmic patterns.

1. In the nature of things

2. A three-day journey by train.

B) Read the following utterances according to the suggested rhythmic pattern.

1. Travelling round the world. (2 stress-rhythm)

III. Use of the pitch contours.

A) Use an appropriate contour to ask an insistent special question.

– Can I have a look at those magazines?

– Which one do you want?

B) Express apology in your response.

– We’ve been waiting for an hour already.

– I’ve been awfully busy, you know.

IV. Auditory memory check.

Act out this piece of prose by analogy with the text “Our Sitting-room”.

Let’s take a glance at our kitchen. As you open the door, you will see a cooker with some new appliances attached to it. Next to the cooker is a tall cupboard made of dark brown plastic. On the left is a large freezer. Near the window there’s a kitchen table, with four wooden chairs standing around it.

ТЕХТ 3 (I / L)

When Mr. Holland was a young man, he played a lot of football, and he had always been thin and very strong. But then he worked in an office for many years, and he drove to work in a car, so when he was forty, he was fat and very soft, and he did not wish to get fatter and softer every year.

One day one of his friends said to him, "Would you like to be thinner, Fred?"

"Of course I would," Mr. Holland answered.

"Well," his friend said, "stop going to your office by car, and get a bicycle."

Mr. Holland had not ridden a bicycle for many years. "It's very hard to learn to ride a bicycle again at your age," his wife said.

But it was not too hard for Mr. Holland to do. He usually sat in his living room and read the newspaper in the evening, but he bought a bicycle for his birthday and practised riding that every evening instead. He hoped that it would help him to get thinner, and he got a lot of pleasure from it.

He found little roads which were not really very narrow, but were too narrow for cars, and there he got away from the nasty noises of the city, which were becoming too much for him. They were not really very loud, but they were too loud for Mr. Holland.

Then he began to go to his office on his bicycle. Sometimes all the cars stopped at a red light, and he went past them to the front, because his bicycle was narrow. Then he was very happy.

Yesterday he stopped at a red light, and a man came up behind him on another bicycle. He stopped too and said to Mr. Holland, "Have the police taken your driving license away too?"

CARD 3 (I / L)

I. Identification and reproduction of intonation patterns.

Read the following conversational context according to the intonation marks:

– ÈAre you _/leaving?

– ^\Yes,I’m Ègoing out to get a ^\paper.

– Do you Èmind taking _/Rex for a walk?

– I’m a Èbit aÈfraid of the ^\traffic, you _/know.

– _\Oh,he’s ^\very Çgood in the _/street.

– ÈAll _/right then.

II. Use of rhythmic structures.

A) Read the following utterances using the most suitable rhythmic patterns.

1. A flash of lightning.

2. Do this exercise in writing.

B) Read the following utterances according to the suggested rhythmic pattern.

1. It may be raining soon. (1 stress-rhythm)

III. Use of the pitch contours.

A) Use an appropriate contour to express cordiality in the response.

– It’s getting late.

– I’ll run you up to town in my car.

B) Convey the interested attitude in the response.

– Let’s go for an outing tomorrow.

– Do you think it’ll clear out by tomorrow?

IV. Auditory memory check.

Act out the conversation by analogy with the dialogue “Making a Cake”.

– Switch on the TV, dear. I want to watch the news.

– What will be on next, Mike?

– Fancy you being interested! Well, show me the program and I’ll tell you. First we can watch a quiz and a music show, oh, no, that’s on tomorrow. There’ll be a new detective film on. There, do you see?

TEXT 4 (I / L)

Mary Williams was a clever young lady. She lived alone and had a very important business job in a big company. She worked very hard in it. She was never absent, she always arrived at her office early and left late, and she often took reports home with her to read. At weekends she seldom went any where, and she was always working then too.

Jill Thomas was a friend of Mary's. In fact, she was Mary's best friend. They had gone to the same school, and both of them were clever women, but Jill was married, and she did not want to get a job. "I'm quite happy at home with Len," she always said. "I don't want to be too busy to have fun."

Jill and Len liked walking very much, and nearly every weekend they went to the mountains and walked there. They also liked dancing very much, and they often went out in the evening and danced till the early hours of the next morning. And when they had their holidays, they climbed all the mountains one by one and swam and sailed on a lake and danced nearly all the time.

One year Jill said to Mary, "Would you like to have a holiday with us this year, Mary?" Mary was very happy, so Jill and Mary and Len had two weeks together. Mary enjoyed her holiday, but she was very tired after they had climbed all the mountains and swum every day and danced every night.

The next summer, Jill offered to take Mary on their holiday again.

"Thank you very much," answered Mary, "but I'm going to be quite honest with you: I'm sorry that I can't come, because I've worked a lot this year and I'm tired. But I don't need a holiday: I need a rest!"

CARD 4 (I / L)

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