In order to fix Intonation Pattern VI in your mind, ear and speech habits repeat all the replies yourself until they sound perfectly natural to you

Listen to a fellow-student reading the replies. Tell him what his errors in intonation are.

6. Listen to your teacher reading the verbal context. Reply using one of the drill sentences below. Pronounce it with Intonation Pattern VI. Say what attitude you mean to render:

Pronounce the drill sentences with Intonation Patterns I, III. Observe the difference in meaning.

Your teacher will suggest a verbal context. You in turn reply by statements expressing contradiction, correction, contrast, concern, reproach.

This exercise is meant to develop your ability to hear the falling-rising tone and reproduce it in proper conversational situations. a) Listen to the following dialogues. Mark the stresses and tunes. Practise and memorize them.

A: My holiday starts tomorrow.

B: Not tomorrow.

A: You'll be seeing Tom on Sunday.

B: On Saturday.

A: I'm having tea at five o'clock.

B: At four o'clock, you mean.

A: I can do it in a few minutes.

B: A few hours, more likely.

A: It's your birthday on Monday.

B: Not this Monday.

A: You'll be thirty-five then.

B: Thirty-four.

A: I think I'll have a rest now.

B: I shan't.

A: I feel tired today.

B: I don't.

A: It's so hot in this room.

B: I don't think so.

A: My head aches when it's hot.

B: Mine doesn't.

A: I don't like the heat.

B: I do.

A: I'll go for a swim this afternoon.

B: I shan't.

A: It'll be cool in the winter.

B: It won't.

b) Listen to the dialogue "Is it going to rain?" sentence by sentence. Write it down. Mark the stresses and tunes. Practise and memorize it. c) One of the students will suggest a verbal context. The other will contradict or correct him. Keep the exercise moving rapidly until everyone has participated.

One of the students will suggest the verbal context given below. You answer by Using the reply from the model. Continue the exercise until every student has participated. Keep the exercise moving rapidly and do not take a long time to give a reply.

Model 1: May I come in?

_\Yes, _/please. _\Do, _/please.

1. May he come into the room? 2. We are going to bed. Shall I switch off the radio? 3. Shall I help you in the garden? 4. May I stay here a bit longer? 5. Shall I repeat the word? 6. Shall I lay the table? 7. May I try to put the iron right? 8. It's rather cold. Shall I close the windows? 9. It's stuffy in the room. Shall I open the windows and air the room? 10. May I switch on the radio and listen to the news?

Model 2: Do you find it difficult to study maths?

_\Ra _/ther.

1. Do you find it difficult to translate the sentence? 2. Does she find it difficult to study languages? 3. Do you find it easy to do this exercise? 4. Do you find this book interesting? 5. Do you find it warm to set a tent here? 6. Do they find it cold to plant the flowers?

Model 3: Have some more porridge.

_\ No more, _/thank you.

1. Have another cup of tea. Have another ice-cream. Have another lump of sugar. Have another piece of cake. Have some more coffee. 2. Will you take another book to read? Will you have some more milk? Will you buy some more flowers? Will you take another ticket for the play? Will you take some more apples?

Model 4: Do you always get up at the same time?

_\Of_/ten.

(often, sometimes, never, rarely, generally, usually)

1. Do you regularly go to the laboratory? 2. Does your little brother like to read books? 3. Do you go to the theatre every week? 4. Does she always agree with him? 5. Do you rarely go shopping? 6. Can you often go to the cinema on week-days? 7. Do you always have dinner at home? 8. Do you ever go to the Institute on Sunday? 9. Do you ever miss your friends when they are far away? 10. Can you help your friends with phonetics?

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