Part II. Practice Activities

Task 1. Listen to the utterances with the Ascending Stepping Head. Notice the attitude that the Ascending Head conveys. Then reproduce the utterances after the speaker.

1. I didn’t really mean it. 2. I’m just as sur prised as you are. 3. It seems absolutely ri diculous. 4. Come a long with us then. 5. I told you a bout it three days a go. 6. It’s almost in credible. 7. You didn’t ask me to do it. 8. Why didn’t you say so be fore? 9. Then tell me what I ought to say. 10. These children keep ringing the doorbell.

Task 2. Compare the Low and the Ascending Heads. Point out the syllables having a similar and a different pitch-height. Reproduce the tunes after the speaker.

1. He doesn’t really mean it. 2. I’m just as sur prised as you are. 3. I’d rather you didn’t. 4. It seems absolutely ri diculous. 5. Come a long with us then. It’s made of some sort of plastic.

Task 3. From the following conversational contexts pick out the responses expressing surprise, unexpectedness or impatience and those conveying a detached or casual attitude.

1. – He says he’ll never speak to me again.

– He doesn’t really mean it.

2. – Why didn’t you say you’d won?

– I’m just as sur prised as you are.

3. – Would you mind if I opened the window?

– I’d rather you didn’t.

4. – He paid five thousand pounds for that house.

– It seems absolutely ri diculous.

5. – I don’t want to go alone.

– Come a long with us then.

6. – What’s the tray made of?

– Some sort of plastic.

Task 4. Practise the following tunes with the Scandent Head. Observe an upward pitch movement (climb) in each stress-group. Make sure that the unstressed syllables of the preceding stress-groups are higher in pitch than the next stressed syllable.

1. I hate doing nothing. 2. I’m tired of lying here on my back with nothing to do. 3. You mustn’t try to keep me in bed like a naughty boy. 4. Don’t for get to send me a message. 5. Try to do it a gain. 6. Don’t you think she’s lucky? 7. I don’t want to go to the pictures. 8. This is the only sensible thing to do. 9. Try not to be late in future. 10. One of the children must have spoilt it.

Task 5. Listen to the following conversational situations. Notice the intonation contour of the responses and attitudinal meaning associated with it in different communicative types of sentences. Then practice the conversations aloud

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