Make up a conversation using the following phrases.



 

Let's .... shall we?          It'll be too ... .

That's a good idea.        That's better.

Yes, please.                   Now, perhaps, ... .

Right.                            Oh, dear, I'm so sorry.

Oh, ... .                          Not at all.

Well, you said ... .          Do you think you could ... ?

Mark the intonation, draw the staves and transcribe the following sentences, dividing into rhythm groups.

 

• That’s not the way to read books. (final, categoric)

• “We really must be going now,” she said getting up out of her chair.

• Sammy asked: “Have you got any seats for tomorrow?”

•  Here are two pencils. – I’d like to have the read one. (expressing contradiction)

• You needn’t worry. Nothing at all serious. (reassuring, calmly patronizing)

• Ann was wearing a charming blue hat. (Accidental Rise)

• Do your children have milk or coffee in the morning?

• I’m not too early, am I?

• At present I’m too busy. (Mid-Level)

• In front of the window there is a flower-bed.

• Still, it’s better to engage a room beforehand.

• You know, of course, they are geologists.

• That’s all right, darling.

• Eddy, why didn’t you phone me?

• Who on earth told him to come? (calm, but very disapproving)

Mark the intonation in the following text and read it.

Doctor, Dentist and Chemist

 

If you have toothache, you should go to your dentist. He'll examine your teeth, and if the aching tooth is not too far gone, he'll stop it. If it is too bad, he'll take it out.

If you don't feel well, you should consult a doctor. If you feel too ill to go to the doctor's, you'll have to send for him. He'll ask you to describe to him the symptoms of your illness. Then he'll feel your pulse, look at your tongue and examine you thoroughly. Finally he'll prescribe the treatment and write out a prescription.

Doctors' prescriptions are made up by a chemist. At chemists' shops in the USA you can also get patent medicines of all kinds, lotions, tonics, cough-mixtures, baby-foods, aspirin, pills, ointment, bandages, adhesive plaster and so on. You can buy razors and razor-blades, vacuum-flasks, hot water bottles, sponges, tooth-brushes and tooth-pastes, powder-puffs, lipsticks, shaving-soap and shaving-brushes and a hundred and one other things.

If you are interested in photography, you can also get cameras and films at most chemists'. They'll develop and print your films for you, too. Some chemists are also qualified opticians, and if your eyesight's faulty they'll test your eyes and prescribe glasses for you.

 

 

The rhythm of English

English is a ‘stress-timed’ language. That is to say the beats or stress pulses in connected speech follow each other at roughly equal intervals of time:

 

One                     

Two                     

Three                             

Four

 

This means that if there are any unstressed syllables between stresses, these have to be fitted in without delaying the regular beat of the stress pulses:

One                      Two                            Three                              Four

One      and          Two        and        Three          and         Four

One   and a          Two     and a        Three       and a         Four

One and then a     Two and then a     Three and then a     Four

The more unstressed syllables there are after stress, the quicker they must be said in order to ‘catch’ the next pulse.

Yes, that was probably necessary, John

Using language to be sociable

• When we are taking part in a conversation, we often show the current speaker that we are following what they are saying, and that we want them to go on. A number of sounds, words and phrases are commonly used to do this, usually with a rising tone. These include mm, uhuh, mhm, okay, right, yeah, I see.

• When these are used with a falling tone, they often indicate that we think the speaker has finished or that we want to take a turn in the conversation ourselves.

• Some words and phrases are added to positive sentences in order to check that something has been understood or accepted as true, usually with a rising tone. These include alright, you know, okay, you see, right. They are often followed by the words and phrases in 1., usually with a falling tone, indicating ‘I have understood’ or ‘I agree’.

• To show interest and to encourage the speaker to continue, we can also use short questions such as Did you? Were they? Haven’t we? or Really?, typically with a fall-rising tone.

 

Exercises

Listen and take B’s part in this conversation. Use a falling tone in each case to show that you agree or have understood.

A: The coach leaves at six, alright?

B: Oˎkay.

A: From outside the museum, you know?

B: Right.

A: You wanted two tickets, right?

B: Yeah.

A: That’s $50, okay?

B: Mhm.

A: It costs more at the weekend, you know?

B: Mm.

A: ‘Cause we have to pay the driver more, you see?

B: Uhuh.

 

Listen to the conversation again. Say A’s part aloud, using a rising tone on each final phrase to check that B understands.

Listen to the conversation. Indicate falling, rising or fall-rising tones on the words in bold. Say the B’s part aloud, using the same tones.

A: So it’ll go past those trees…

B: Mhm.

A: …across that footpath…

B: Yeah.

A: …and down across the top of that field.

B: Right, and who owns that?

A: All that fields around here are part of a big farm.

B: Uhuh.

A: Belongs to the farmer who lives in that white house.

B: Right.

A: Of course, he won’t be happy about the plans.

B: Won’t he?

A:No, I doubt that he’ll want to sell any of his land.

B: Okay. So what’ll happen then?

A:I suppose the council could force him to sell.

B: Really?

A:But that wouldn’t be popular with the local community.

B: I see.

Listen to this conversation and notice how the woman verbally encourages the man to keep talking.

Man: D’you know, today is the tenth anniversary of my arrival in Britain.

Woman: Really!

Man: Yes, I was brought up in the Soviet Union. I lived there for the first twenty years of my life.

Woman: How interesting!

Man: I was born in Siberia.

Woman: Were you?

Man: Yes, my parents went to live there in 1958 and stayed for about eight years. What I remember best are the winters. Terribly cold – the temperature goes down to minus fifty degrees.

Woman: Minus fifty!

Man: It can be pretty awful.

Woman: Horrible.

Man: And I remember snow storms that went on for days on end. And the winter itself is very long.

Woman: How long?

Man: Oh, about five or six months. But you know, I think winter is my favourite season of the year.

Woman: What makes you say that?

Man: Well, we used to go tobogganing for example.

Woman: What’s that?

Man: Sledging.

Woman: Sorry, I don’t know that word.

Man: Oh, sorry. I’ll draw you a picture. Look, this is a sledge.

Woman: Oh, of course. Yes, sledging’s great fun.

 

Try to define the function of each of the woman’s phrases using the following hints:

Makes a comment. Asks a short question. Repeats a key word/phrase. Asks for more information. Asks for an explanation.

 

 

Listen to the recording, fill in the gaps. Read the text ‘Windsor Castle Tourist Guide’

Windsor Castle Tourist Guide

Man: Do you know I used to work as a tourist guide?

Woman: Yes Iremember that.

Man: Yes, that's right. It was about two years ago, um, I did it for about a year -Woman: That's right.

Man: - and I finished two years ago. One of the things I had to do was to take people around Windsor Castle, which is, you know, the Queen's weekend residence outside London.

Woman: Yes, 1_____________________ .

Man: And I used to take people round it, show them the sights and er explain it to them as much as I possibly could. But some of the strangest things used to happen, especially with American tourists.

Woman:2                                    .

Man: Occasionally, as you can imagine, it was ... it was –

Woman: Weird questions.

Man: - strange, the questions you used to get. Once I had a professor, and I didn't know he was a professor and 1 was telling them about the date of something or other -

Woman:3                              .

Man: - and er he said, 'No, you've got that wrong.'

Woman: Oh, no.

Man: Ithink it was, it was awful, it was really embarrassing.

Woman: Was he right or were you right?

Man: Oh, he was right.

Woman: Gosh.

Man: - he was right because I, Iguessed, I'd forgotten I'm ashamed to say and I was stupid enough to think, 'Oh well, they probably won't know, I'll just tell them anyway. And he said, 'No, you've got that wrong. Queen Elizabeth was born in 1536.'

Woman:4                                      !

Man: It was, it really was. 1 had to er speak very fast to cover up for it.

Woman: I can imagine.

Man: But other times you get the very very stupidest comments, I mean really, really

embarrassing sometimes or, or um funny, you have to keep a straight face.
Woman: 5                                  ?

Man: Well, once Iwas telling them something, we were on the terrace outside the castle looking out over the Thames Valley -

Woman: Oh, how6_______________ !

Man: Oh it is, it's a wonderful view. Have you seen it?
Woman: Yes, 1 have, it's 7________________ .

Man: And we were looking out over there and an aeroplane came over because Heathrow, as you probably know, is is only about five miles away -

Woman: Yes, that's right.

Man: - um, and the aeroplanes are landing every two minutes or something like that.

And this aeroplane came over making a terrible noise and I had to stop speaking.

And when the sound of the aeroplane had died away, one of the tourists said to

me, she said, 'Why did the Queen build her castle so close to the airport?'
Woman: (laughs) Oh, no! 1 mean 8____________________ to that sort of

comment?

Man: I don't know. I just, I just had to try and not laugh and keep a straight face, it

was very difficult.

Woman: Oh, no!

Man: And er sometimes I had to explain to them about what was inside in the State Apartments.

Woman: Oh, they're lovely, beautiful, aren't they?

Man: They are, they're lovely, aren't they.

Woman:9                                   , yes.

Man: With all the tapestries and paintings –

Woman: And jewels as well.

Man: - and furniture. The jewels are lovely as well, although there's more at the

Tower of London than –

Woman: Yes, of course.

Man: - than, than at Windsor. But I would have to explain to them, and then they'd get everything mixed up.

Woman: I can imagine.

Man: So they'd think that the portrait of Queen Elizabeth was Queen Mary and, and they'd think that this room was that room and er, I'd have, I'd have to do more explaining when they got out. Another time when they came out it was pouring with rain -

Woman: 10                                   !

Man: Yes, as usual, you know, and er somebody came up to me and said, 'Why have

you made it rain?'
Woman:11                                           !

Man: I know, it's incredible, isn't it. And I said, 'There's many things I can do but that I can't do.'

Woman: Stopping the rain is not one of them.
Man: No. That's right. You can't have a private telephone line to God.
Woman: 12___________, though.

Man: Yes. Yes. Very enjoyable. You're always on the move, always in different places, going round beautiful historic places.

Woman: And meeting er interesting people.

Man: Yes.

 

 


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