Transcribe the words in bold, read and learn the Pronunciation Poem by heart.
Pronunciation Poem
Here is some pronunciation. /_________________________________
Ration never rhymes wish nation, ___________________________________
Say prefer, but preferable, __________________________________
Comfortable and vegetable. _________________________________
B must not be heard in doubt, __________________________________
Debt and dumb both leave it out. ___________________________________
In the words psychology, __________________________________
Psychic and psychiatry, ___________________________________
You must never sound the p. _________________________________
Psychiatrist you call the man ___________________________________
Who cures the complex, if he can. __________________________________
In architect, ch is k, _________________________________
In arch it is the other way. _________________________________
Please remember to say iron _________________________________
So that it'll rhyme with lion __________________________________
Advertisers advertise, ________________________________
Advertisements will put you wise. _________________________________
Time when work is doneis leisure, _________________________________
Fill it up with useful pleasure. _________________________________
Accidental, accident. ________________________________
Sound the g in ignorant. ________________________________
Relative, but a relation. _______________________________
Then say creature but creation. ______________________________
Say the a in gas quite short, _______________________
Bought remember rhymes with thwart, _____________________________
Drought must always rhyme with bout, _______________________________
In daughter leave the gh out. _______________________________
Wear a boot upon your foot. ______________________________
Root can never rhyme with soot. ______________________________
In muscle, sc is s, ____________________________
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Inmuscular, it's sk, yes! _____________________________
Choir must always rhyme with wire. _____________________________
That again, will rhyme with liar. _____________________________
Then, remember it's address, ___________________________
With an accent like possess. _____________________________
G in sign must silent be, _____________________________
In signature pronounce the g. ______________________________
Please remember, say towards ____________________________
Just as if it rhymed with boards. ______________________________
Weight's like wait, but not like height, _____________________________
Which should always rhyme with might. ______________________________
Sew is just the same as so, _____________________________
Tie a ribbon in a bow. _____________________________
When you meet the queen you bow, ___________________________
Which again must rhyme with how. _____________________________
In perfect English make a start. ____________________________
Learn this little rhyme by heart. _____________________________/
Informational style
Informational narrative read aloud
Phonostylistic characteristics
| Timbre of the voice | Dispassionate, impartial, reserved |
| Loudness | Normal throughout the text, varied at the phonopassage boundaries |
| Levels and range | Decrease of levels and ranges within the passage |
| Pauses | Of normal length |
| Speed, tempo | Normal or slow, not variable |
| Rhythm | Stable, properly organized |
| Types of Heads | Mostly Falling and Level Heads |
| Terminal tones | Final categoric falls; in non-final segments mid-level and low rising tones are often used |
Shadow reading
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‘Shadow reading’ is reading aloud with a recording, following the pace, rhythm, and intonation of the recorded speaker. Shadow reading exercises help to improve pronunciation and intonation, speak with more expression and more flowingly.
About Friends
The good thing about friends
is not having to finish sentences.
I sat a whole summer afternoon with my friend once
on a river bank, basking heels on the baked mud
and watching the small chunks slide into the water
and listening to them – plop, plop, plop.
He said ‘I like the twigs when they… you know…
like that’. I said ‘There’s that branch…’
We both said ‘Mmmm’. The river flowed and flowed
and there were lots of butterflies, that afternoon.
I first thought there was a sad thing about friends
when we met twenty years later.
We both talked hundreds of sentences,
taking care to finish all we said,
and explain it all very carefully,
as if we’d been discovered in places
we should not be, and were somehow ashamed.
I understood then what the river meant by flowing.
Press reporting
Phonostylistic characteristics
| Timbre of the voice | Dispassionate, impartial, but assured |
| Loudness | Normal or increased |
| Levels and range | Normal; decrease towards the end of the passage; noticeable increase at the start of any new news item |
| Pauses | Rather long, especially at the end of each news item |
| Speed, tempo | Not remarkably varied; deliberately slow on communicatively important centres |
| Rhythm | Stable, properly organized |
| Types of Heads | Descending Heads |
| Terminal tones | Final, categoric falling tones on the semantic centres; falling-rising or rising tones in the initial intonation groups |
Listen, indicate the intonation and read the text “May Week in Cambridge”
May Week in Cambridge
The most interesting and bizarre time of the year to visit Cambridge is during May Week. This is neither in May, nor a week. For some reason, which nobody now remembers, May Week is the name given to the first two weeks in June, the very end of the University year.
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The paradox is pleasantly quaint, but also in a way apt. May Week denotes not so much a particular period of time as the general atmosphere of relaxation and unwinding at the end of the year's work. It starts for each undergraduate when he finishes his examinations and it continues until he "goes down" at the end of the term.
Everything as far as possible has to happen in the open air — parties, picnics on punts, concerts and plays. May Week seems almost like a celebration of the coming of the spring, till then ignored in favour of sterner matters like examinations, and this spirit of release seems to take over the entire town.
People gravitate towards the river and on to the Backs which are the broad lawns and graceful landscaped gardens behind those colleges which stand next to the river: Queens, King's, Clare, Trinity Hall, Trinity and St. John's. The river banks are lined with strollers and spectators and there is a steady procession of punts up and down the Cam, some drifting slowly and lazily, others poled by energetic young men determined to show off their skill.
Meanwhile the colleges are preparing feverishly for the various events in which May Week culminates. The most important of these are the May Balls for which some girls plot years in advance to get invitations and the May Races.
Rowing plays a very important part in Cambridge life, and no less than 128 crews of eight compete in the "Mays", which are rowed over a period of four days.
Music and drama also have a part to play in the festivity. Nearly every college in the University (and there are over twenty of them) holds a May Week Concert; at Trinity for example, there is a concert of Madrigals at which the performers and most of the audience sit in punts at dusk beneath the willows. Many of the colleges present a play in the open air. At Corpus Christy College the setting is the medieval courtyard in which Christopher Marlowe lived over 400 years ago, at Queens, a Tudor Court.
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At the Art theatre, the "Footlights", a famous University club which specializes in revue, puts on its annual show. There is also a concert in King's College Chapel, but it is almost impossible for the casual visitor to get tickets for this.
The climax of May Week and for many undergraduates the final event of their university life, is the spate of college May Balls when the river is lit up with coloured lights and flaming torches, braziers glow in the gardens, marquees are erected in flood lit courts, ballroom orchestras compete for dancers with string bands and pop groups and punts glide romantically down the river. And in the silver light of dawn couples in evening dress stroll leisurely, perhaps rather dreamily through the Backs and the narrow deserted streets, until it is time to punt upstream through the meadows to breakfast at Granchester or some other equally attractive spot.
Exercises
• Listen, indicate intonation and read the news.
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DAILY NEWS ©
THURSDAY, JANUARY 12th No. 732 142
SUPERTANKER
DISASTER
Danger to holiday beaches
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