Give your own examples with parentheses at the end of the sentences

12.*** This exercise is meant to develop your ability to hear intonation and reproduce it in proper conversational situations. a) Listen to the dialogue "Planning a Holiday" 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 fellow-students to detect the possible errors. Practise the dialogue for test reading. Memorize the dialogue. c) Pick out sentences and intonation-groups containing parentheses. d) Give conversational situations with the phrases below:

1. I say,.... 2. Well, I don't know. 3...., I expect. 4. Oh, yes. 5..... anyhow. 6..... I suppose. 7...., as a rule. 8. On the whole,.... 9. However.....10. For my own part,.... 11. Right, I will.

e) Make up a conversation with the phrases from the dialogue "Planning a Holiday".

13. Translate the following sentences into English; read them following the intonation patterns of the dialogue:

1. Что ты собираешься делать в каникулы в этом году? - Мы поедем на юг, я думаю. 2. Что ты читаешь, как правило? 3. Что касается меня, то мне это нравится. 4. В целом, я согласен с вами. 5. Я люблю шить, однако на это уходит много времени. 6.Послушай, что ты делаешь сегодня вечером? 7. Во всяком случае, я предпочитаю остаться дома.

14.*** This exercise is meant to develop your ability to hear and reproduce intonation in reading. a) Listen to the text "At the Seaside" sentence by sentence. Mark the stresses and tunes. Practise the text. b) Record your reading. Play the recording back immediately for your teacher and fellow-students to detect the possible errors. Practise the text for test reading. c) Pick out sentences with subordinate clauses at the beginning. Observe the intonation they are pronounced with:

At the Seaside

If you're going to stay in England for some time, you ought to spend at least a week at the seaside. If you can stay longer, so much the better. You ought to have no difficulty in finding a suitable hotel or boarding-house.

When we were children, we used to enjoy playing on the beach, making castles and forts and channels in the sands. I expect you did the same when you were young, because it's really one of the most delightful holidays for children. We used to love playing about on the sand and paddling in the water and getting splashed by the waves. Sometimes we'd get our clothes wet, and Nurse would get very cross and tell us we oughtn't to have gone so far into the water.

When you're tired of London, go down to the sea for a week or a fortnight. You can walk up and down the front, listen to the band on the pier and do more or less anything you please. If you wish to bathe, you can hire a hut or a tentr A swim now and then, or better still, everyday, will do you a lot of good. Take your car with you, if you've got one, choose a good hotel, and you're sure to spend a thoroughly enjoyable time.

15.*** Read the text silently to make sure you understand each sentence. Split up each sentence into intonation-groups if necessary. Mark the stresses and tunes. Find the communicative centre of each sentence. Practise reading the text:

We had a grand holiday last year. My husband and I took the children to the seaside for a month. We have five children. John, the eldest, is 12 years old, and little Mary, the baby, is only two and a half.

John has been to the seaside several times before, but this was the first time the other children had been. Naturally, it was a great event for them. For weeks before we were to go they talked of nothing else and were very busy getting their things ready. Finally, the day came when our holiday was to begin. John was a great help in looking after the other children and so was Betty, who is nearly eleven. It was a fine morning. We were up very early as we wanted to leave home soon after breakfast. We made the journey by car, and we took some refreshments with us so that we could stop for lunch when we found a pleasant place in the country. We reached the seaside town, where we intended to stay in the early afternoon, and as soon as we arrived the children were asking if they could go down to the beach and see the sea. After that we spent many hours of each day on the beach. The children made sandcastles and bathed. John and Betty, who are quite good swimmers, had a swim every morning with their father while I sat with the others. Several times my husband and I went to the theatre in the evening and once or twice we went dancing.

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 peculiarity in intonation-group division, pitch, stress and tempo. Note the use of temporizers. Retell the joke according to the model you have listened to.

17. Read and retell the jokes:

Doctor's Orders

Servant: Sir, wake up, wake up!

Master: What is the matter?

Servant: It's time to take your sleeping tablets.

Politeness

Mother: Which apple do you want, Tom?

Tom: The biggest one.

Mother: Why, Tom, you should be polite and take the little one.

Tom: Well, Mamma, should I lie just to be polite?

His pipe

Little girl: Grandpa, would you like me to give you a new pipe for your birthday?

Grandpa: That's very nice of you, Mary, but I have got a pipe.

Little girl: Don't think you have, Grandpa, I've just broken it.

A good student

Professor: Can you tell me anything about the great chemists of the 17th century?

Student: Yes, sir, they are all dead, sir.

Section Ten

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