- •Questions and tasks
- •8. Link [ r ] to a following vowel. Mark the links.
- •STRONG AND WEAK FORMS
- •Strong forms
- •ARTICULATORY PECULIARITIES OF ENGLISH CONSONANTS
- •ASSIMILATION
- •Degrees of Assimilation
- •Direction of Assimilation
- •At word boundaries the sonorants [l, r, w] are slightly devoiced if the words form a phrase, e.g. at rest.
- •Questions and tasks
- •6) trace, track, trade, traffic, tragedy, train, traitor, tram, trample,
- •transit, transitive, try, tremble
- •15. Classify these word combinations according to the type of consonant modification :
- •INTONATION
- •Questions and tasks
- •SENTENCE - STRESS
- •INTONATION OF QUESTIONS
- •SEQUENCE OF TONES IN ALTERNATIVE QUESTIONS
- •SEQUENCE OF TONES lN DISJUNCTIVE QUESTIONS
- •INTONATION OF IMPERATIVES
- •INTONATION OF EXCLAMATIONS
- •INTONATION OF GRATITUDES ("THANK YOU")
- •INTONATION OF ADVERBIALS
- •INTONATION OF ENUMERATION
- •INTONATION OF APPOSITION
- •INTONATION OF DIRECT ADDRESS
- •Direct address at the Beginning of the Sentence
- •INTONATION OF PARENTHESES
- •Parentheses at the Beginning of the Sentence
- •INTONATION OF COMPOUND SENTENCES
- •The author's words which follow the direct speech are usually pronounced as an unstressed or half-stressed tail of the preceding intonation group.
- •Author's Words Preceding Direct Speech
- •SECTION III (RECORDED MATERIAL)
- •ORAL INTRODUCTORY COURSE
- •A PRETTY GAME
- •The sun and rain in fickle weather
- •And each in turn would try to chase
- •AUTUMN
- •BIRCH TREES
- •THE WILLOWS
- •WHEN THE LAMP IS SHATTERED
- •I LOVED YOU
- •THE ARROW AND THE SONG
- •H.W. Longfellow
- •1. ASKING THE WAY
- •12. IN A RESTAURANT
- •TONE-GROUP 1
- •Attitudes:
- •Pattern 2. LOW FALL + TAIL
- •Exercises
- •Pattern 1. STEPPING HEAD + LOW FALL + TAIL
- •TONE GROUP 3
- •Pattern 1. HIGH FALL (+ tail)
- •Statements:
- •Pattern 3. LOW HEAD + HIGH FALL
- •TONE GROUP 4
- •Pattern 1. STEPPING HEAD + HIGH FALL
- •Pattern 3. HIGH PRE-HEAD + HIGH FALL
- •EXERCISES
- •1.Read the following conversational situations using Tone-group 7. Concentrate your attention on the intonation of the replies.
- •ENGLISH LINGUAPHONE COURSE
- •OUR SITTING-ROOM
- •THE BROWNS' DINING-ROOM
- •SEASONS AND WEATHER
- •ENGLISH INTERMEDIATE COURSE
- •AFTER THE EXAMS
- •LINGUISTIC TALENT
- •CAREER PROSPECTS
- •THE WEATHER FORECAST
- •SUPPLEMENT 1
- •SOME NOTES WHICH ARE IMPORTANT FOR
- •THE PHONETIC ANALYSIS
- •Supplement 2
- •SOME MATERIAL TO PRACTISE PHONETIC ANALYSIS
- •Supplement 3
- •II. MATERIAL TO BE LEARNED BY HEART
- •II. MATERIAL TO BE LEARNED BY HEART
- •English Intermediate Course (EIC) Lessons 5, 6, 7, 9, 11
POEMS TO BE LEARNED BY HEART
A PRETTY GAME
The sun and rain in fickle weather
Were playing hide-and-seek together.
And each in turn would try to chase
The other from the hiding place.
At last they met to say good-bye.
And lo’! A rainbow across the sky!
AUTUMN
Autumn winds are singing, singing in the trees, The ripened corn is waving, waving in the breeze The harvest moon is shining, shining in the night Over hill and valley in floods of silver light.
BIRCH TREES
The night is white, the moon is high,
The birch trees lean against the sky.
The cruel winds have blown away
Each little leaf of silver grey.
Oh, lonely trees as white as wool,
That moonlight makes so beautiful.
THE WILLOWS
By the little river still and deep and brown, Grow the graceful willows gently dipping down. Dipping down and brushing everything that floats: Leaves, and logs, and fishes, and the passing boats.
Were they water maidens in the long ago, That they lean out sadly looking down below? In the misty twilight you can see their hair, Weeping water maidens that were once so fair.
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