B) Record your reading. Play the recording back immediately for your teacher and your fellow-students to detect your errors. Practise the dialogue for test reading.

13. Make up conversational situations, using the following phrases:

He hasn't even got to... yet.

That's my idea of....

Are you sure you don't want to be...?

Is it my... we're planning, or yours?

No, I'm sorry,... but I....

Look here.

All right, all right, there is no need to....

I really wanted to be....

I haven't made up my mind yet.

Maybe not.

Well, that's not the way I look at it.

You haven't answered my question yet.

I don't want to at all.

Make up a dialogue about your future profession.

This exercise is meant to develop your ability to hear intonation and reproduce it in reading and narration.

a) listen to the joke "Nothing to Complain About", sentence by sen­tence. Write it down. Mark stresses and tunes. Practise the joke for test reading.

b) Listen to the narration of the joke. Observe the peculiarities in intonation-group division, pitch, stress and tempo. Note the use of tempo­rizers. Reproduce the model narration of the joke.

This exercise is meant to test your ability to analyze and reproduce material for reading and retelling.

A) Read the jokes silently to make sure you understand each sentence. Underline the sentence expressing the essence of the joke. Split up each sentence into intonation groups if necessary. Locate the communicative centre of each sentence. Mark the stresses and tunes, concentrating your attention on the attitude expressed. It is not expected that each student will mark the story in exactly the same way. Discuss your variants in class. The teacher will help you to choose the best variant. Practise your corrected variant for test reading.

b) Retell the jokes in your own words:

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