8. Tapescripts

• Listen to the following extract from the keynote speech carefully, sentence by sentence. Practise reading each sentence after the-recorder according to the suggested intonation patterns.

Ladies and gentlemen. If I could have your attention for a moment, please. I have the final notices for this final session of the conference. Now, first of all. I’d like to mention that the urban position session has been very popular, so we are moving the final discussion to Room 201. That’s Room 201, which means that the domestic shelter session will be changed from Room 201 to Room 304. That’s the domestic shelter session in Room 304. I hope everybody’s got that.

• Listen to the following speech carefully, sentence by sentence. Underline the nuclear word of each intonation group, mark the stresses and tunes. Practise reading each sentence after the tape-recorder.

Right. I think everyone’s hear now. Now, settle down and concentrate. You’ll need a lot of energy today, so I hope you had a good breakfast. Now, er, you’ve all got a sketch map of the estuary. (Oh, erm, I haven’t got one). Oh, sorry, here you are, Jane. Late as usual. Right. We’ll leave at 9 a.m. prompt. We want to catch the ebb tide. Now, don’t forget your life-jackets and of course thick sweater and anorak. It’ll be cold as get near the open sea.

• Listen to the following passage carefully, sentence by sentence. Mark the boundaries of the sense-groups and the tunes. Practise reading each sentence after the tape-recorder.

Finally, I have a reminder from Dr. Coidman of the Chicago Institute, that the 6^th Annual Convention of P.E.S. will be held in Hawaii in October, er, 1986. I think you’ll all be, er, interested in marking that data in your calendar. That’s the 6^th Annual Convention of P.E.S. October, 1986. And I’d like anybody that’s interested in that conference to leave your name at the conference desk. Thank you very much.

Ladies and gentlemen, I know it has been a very happy event for me, this conference, and I hope that you, too, have found it a happy and productive time. Thank you all for coming.

• It is not expected that each student will intone the text in the same way.

• Listen to your fellow-students reading the texts. Be ready to analyse his/her reproduction according to the following parameters.

Characteristic features	Publicistic style
Manner of presentation	the speaker sounds emotional; the speech is persuasive; the speaker stresses nouns and verbs; articles, prepositions and pronouns are stressed with the purpose of some special emphasis; the speaker mispronounces words; the speaker’s voice is so soft that the person cannot hear
Intonation patterns	Low Pre-Head	Falling Head Stepping Head High Level Head Mid Level Head	Low/ High Fall High Fall+Rise Fall-Rise Low Rise	(Tail)
The speed of utterance	a) normal b) accelerated
The speed of utterance	a) relatively slow; b) normal or reduced
Pauses	semantically / syntactically predictable; long or very long; numerous; brief;