E) Make up a conversation with phrases from the dialogue

Listen, to the verbal context suggested by your teacher or a fellow-student. Respond by using Intonation Pattern IV or VIII in your reply. Decide if you are going to sound reserved or friendly and encouraging.

8. This exercise is intended to develop your ability to use different Intonation Patterns in reading, a) Read the dialogues "On the Road" and others silently to make sure you understand each sentence. Underline the communicative centre in each phrase. Decide what attitude should -be expressed in it. Mark the stresses and tunes, keeping the attitude constantly in mind. Practise reading the dialogues with a fellow-student. Memorize them, b) Make up a conversation with a fellow-student using any phrases from the dialogues below. Keep the attitude in mind:

a) Jасk: Are we on the right road?

Jill: I think so.

Jack: You think so. Aren't you sure?

Jill: No, I'm not sure. I've only been along this road once before.

Jack: Then we'd better ask someone, hadn't we?

Jill: Yes, that's the right thing to do. We don't want to lose our way. Look, there's' a postman. He'll know.

Jack: Does this road go to Henfield?

Postman: Yes, this is the Henfield road.

Jасk: Is it very far?

Postman: No, not very far. About an hour's walk.

Jack: There are no buses to Henfield along this road, are there?

Postman: Oh, yes, but the buses don't come very often. Only about four times a day.

Jack: Do you know when the next bus comes along?

Postman: Not until half past seven. You can be in Henfield long before then if you walk.

Jack: Well, thank you. We'd better walk. It's no good waiting an hour and a half for a bus.

b) "Is Henry likely to play bridge at George's tonight?"

"I don't think so. He'll probably go to a concert instead."

"What can Mary be doing now?"

"Well, she may be having dinner."

"And I think she must be writing a letter to me."

"She is more likely to be writing a letter to Henry."

c) "What are you going to do on New Year's Eve?"

"I haven't decided yet. What about you?"

"Mary and I have decided to go to a dance."

9. This exercise is intended to test your ability to hear and reproduce intonation in reading. a) Listen to the text "The Tailor and the Dressmaker" carefully, sentence by sentence. Write it down. Mark the stresses and tunes. Practise reading each sentence after the cassette-recorder. b) Record your reading. Play the recording back immediately and try to detect your errors. Make a careful note of your errors in each sound and tune and work to avoid them. Repetition should be done aloud. Practise the text for test reading.

This exercise is meant to develop your ability to hear intonation and reproduce it in proper speech situations. a) Listen to the joke sentence by sentence. Write it down. Mark the stresses and tunes. Practise the joke for test reading. b) Listen to the narration of the joke. Observe the peculiarities in intonation, word-group division, pitch, stress and tempo. Note the use of temporizers. Retell the joke according to the model you have listened to.

11. This exercise is intended to test your ability to analyse material for reading on your own outside the class. a) Read the story silently to make sure you understand each sentence. Underline the main sentence in the story. Split up each sentence into intonation-groups. Locate the communicative centres of them. Mark the stresses and tunes, concentrating your attention on the attitude expressed. It is not expected that each member of the class will mark the story in exactly the same way. Discuss your variants in class. Your teacher will help you to choose the best variant. Practise your corrected variant for test reading. b) Retell the story following the model above (See Ex. 10):

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