The intonation of surprise (the Low Rise).
В. Д. Аракин «Практический курс английского языка»
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Lesson 2
Statements (the Low Fall).
Ex. 1. Intone:
1) Dick.
2) Nick.
3) Pity.
4) Minnie.
5) It is Sid.
6) It is Ben.
7) It is Lily.
8) It is Denny.
9) It is an egg.
10) It is a city.
Ex. IV, p. 25.
Ex. 2. Intone:
1) This is velvet.
2) This is silk.
3) This is Kitty.
4) This is Betty.
5) This is a lesson.
6) This is a sentence.
7) This isn’t Benny.
8) This isn’t Bess.
Ex. 3. Intone:
1) This is a big city.
2) This is a difficult text.
3) Mrs. Nelson is 66.
4) Mr. Dickson is 77.
5) The egg is little.
6) The sentence is in the text.
Ex. 4. Intone. Mind the logical stress (Arakin, p. 22, 397):
1) This is the sixth[1] letter.
2) This is the seventh pill.
3) Minsk is a big city.
4) Dick is a little kid.
5) Mr. Smith is 76.
6) Mrs. Benson is 67.
General Questions (the Low Rise).
Ex. 5. Intone:
1) Is this silk? – Yes, it is.
2) Is this velvet? – Yes, it is.
3) Is this Sid?
4) Is this Lily?
5) Is it an egg?
6) Is it a city?
7) Is it a little kid?
8) Is it a pretty kitten?
Disjunctive Questions (Arakin, p. 365).
Ex. 6. Intone:
1) This is milk, isn’t it? – Yes, it is.
2) This is a pill, isn’t it? – Yes, it is.
3) This is a pretty city, isn’t it?
4) This is a silly kitten, isn’t it? – No, it isn’t.
5) This isn’t the eleventh lesson, is it?
6) That isn’t the tenth pill, is it? – But yes, it is.
7) This text is the seventh, isn’t it?
8) That lemon isn’t the second, is it? – No, it isn’t.
Lesson 3
Mind that this (that) is stressed only when used as the subject of an affirmative statement. In all other cases it is unstressed.
Ex. 1. Intone:
1) This is the tenth text.
2) Is this the tenth text?
3) This isn’t the tenth text.
4) This text is the tenth.
5) That is a difficult lesson.
6) Is that a difficult lesson?
7) That isn’t a difficult lesson.
8) That lesson is difficult.
Ex. I, p. 34.
Ex. VII, VIII p. 35; ex. X, p. 35.
The intonation of surprise (the Low Rise).
Ex. 2. Intone:
1) This is a dark garden. – Is it?
2) This is a difficult lesson. - Is it?
3) This isn’t a pretty cock. - Isn’t it?
4) This isn’t a heavy box. - Isn’t it?
5) This is hot coffee. - Is it?
6) That isn’t the kitten’s milk. - Isn’t it?
Ex. IX, p. 35.
Ex. 3. Express surprise and intone:
1) This is a pen.
2) This is a pencil.
3) This is an odd clock.
4) This is a silly dog.
5) This is litter.
6) This is ֽlemo'nade.
7) That isn’t an easy lesson.
8) That isn’t a little penny.
Imperative sentences: commands (the Low Fall) and requests (the Low Rise).
Ex. 4 . Intone:
1) Read the text!
2) Look at the exercise!
3) Ask Aunt Polly!
4) Dance at the garden party!
5) Don’t be silly!
6) Don’t go to the garden alone!
7) Don’t forget about the lesson!
8) Don’t give Nell cold milk!
9) Let’s visit the doctor!
10) Let’s ask Tim a poem!
11) Let’s listen to that pretty bird!
12) Let’s learn thirty difficult verbs!
Lesson 4
Ex. III, p. 45 (revision).
Alternative Questions (Arakin, p. 364).
Ex. II, p. 45.
Ex. XII, p. 47 (translate and intone).
These and those are stressed only when used as the subject of an affirmative statement. In all other cases the are unstressed.
Ex. 1. Intone:
1) These are halls.
2) Those are lazy pets.
3) These aren’t high hotels.
4) Those aren’t early birds.
5) Are these big bags? – Yes, they are.
6) Are those hot pots? – No, they aren’t.
7) These cords are torn.
8) Those cards are mine.
9) These cats are black, aren’t they? - Yes, they are.
10) Those ports are old, aren’t they?
11) These aren’t pretty cocks, are they? – No, they aren’t.
12) Those aren’t small balls, are they? – But yes, they are.
Lesson 5
Special Questions (the Low Fall).
Ex. VII (a), p. 60.
Ex. 1. Intone:
1) What’s the matter?
2) What’s up?
3) When is he busy?
4) When is he at home?
5) Why isn’t the water warm?
6) Why isn’t the milk hot?
7) What’s this? (2 вар.)
8) What’s that? (2 вар.)
9) What kind of table is this? - It’s a pretty table.
10) What kind of lesson is that? - It’s a difficult lesson.
11) What colour coat is this? - It’s a yellow coat.
12) What colour car is that? - It’s a black car.
13) How are you?
14) How are your people?
15) What about the sounds?
16) What about the exercises?
Exclamations (the Low Fall).
Ex. 2. Intone:
1) How hard!
2) How high!
3) How hot!
4) How cold!
5) What fine sounds!
6) What funny customs!
7) What a high house!
8) What a narrow road!
9) That’s right!
10) That’s great!
11) How badly you play football!
12) What a strange man he is!
Greetings (the Low Fall in a formal conversation and the Low Rise in a friendly one) and Leave-Takings (the Low Rise or the Fall-Rise).
Ex. 3. Intone:
1) Good morning!
2) Good 'after'noon!
3) Good evening!
4) Good night!
5) Hello!
6) Hi!
7) Glad to see you!
8) Glad to meet you!
Ex. 4. Intone:
1) Good-bye!
2) Bye-bye!
3) Bye!
4) See you later!
5) So long!
6) See you!
7) Keep in touch!
8) Keep well!
9) Till next time!
10) Till Monday!
11) Hope to see you soon!
12) See you again soon!
Direct Address in the Middle and at the End of the Sentence (Arakin, p. 420).
Ex. 5. Intone:
1) This is a cold kettle, Polly!
2) That is a yellow fox, hunter!
3) Don’t miss the train, sir!
4) Read the fifth text, Becky!
5) Is this lemon good, Thomas?
6) Are those glasses on the table, Granny?
7) Good afternoon, Mr. White!
8) What’s the matter, Mrs. Robertson?
Ex. 6. Intone:
1) Is this tea strong, waiter, or weak?
2) Are these pigs on the farm, Mum, or in the field?
3) This is a modern dress, Vicky, isn’t it?
4) That isn’t a good book, Betty, is it? – But it is.
5) These cities are very far, children, aren’t they? – No, they aren’t.
6) Those clothes were rather old, Aunt, weren’t they?
Lesson 6
Requests (Will you…?) (the Low Rise).
Ex. 1. Intone:
1) Will you read?
2) Will you come?
3) Will you go?
4) Will you have brown bread for breakfast?
5) Will you go to hospital, Mr. Jones?
6) Will you read these difficult sentences, Peter?
7) Will you take those kids, Jane, or not?
8) Will you help me with that hard task, John, or not?
9) Never come to me late, Paul, will you?
10) Have a good rest in the country, Nina, won’t you?
Compound Adjectives (2 stresses or 1 stress) (Arakin, p. 71).
Ex. 2. Intone:
1) Lily is good-looking.
2) Lily is a good-looking girl.
3) His nephew is well-bred.
4) His nephew is a well-bred guy.
5) Nelly is kind-hearted.
6) Nelly is a kind-hearted person.
Compound Nouns (1 stress). Exceptions: ꞌweekꞌend, ꞌice-ꞌcream, ꞌfellow-ꞌstudent, ꞌarm-ꞌchair/ꞌarm-chair.
Ex. 3. Intone:
1) Look at the blackboard, kid!
2) Have you got many girl-friends, Tom?
3) My brother-in-law is absent-minded.
4) That editor-in-chief is his father-in-law.
5) This book-keeper is my former class-mate, Mum.
6) This passer-by was panic-stricken, Dad!
Compound Numerals (2 stresses or 1 stress) (Arakin, p. 74).
Ex. 4. Intone:
1) Is your sister seventeen, Lucy, or eighteen?
2) Your brother is only fourteen, Tim.
3) Ann Jackson is fifteen years old, Kitty.
4) Are Jane and John sixteen years old?
5) Open your books at page sixteen!
6) Don’t forget rule thirteen!
7) You are fifty-five, mum, aren’t you?
8) They keep thirty-two geese, Granny!
Compound Verbs and Adverbs (2 stresses)
Ex. 5. Intone:
1) Switch on the light, Dick!
2) Don’t put it off till tomorrow, Jack!
3) Will you put on this woolen sweater, Maud?
4) Will you look up this difficult word, Joan?
5) Come along, my dearest!
6) Let’s see New Year in together, friends!
7) Turn it upside down, son!
8) You wear the jacket inside out, Pam!
Noun in Apposition (Arakin, p. 71).
Ex. 6. Intone:
1) This is Paul Nelson, my school-mate.
2) That is Bobby Brown, his fellow- student.
3) Has he got a son, Benny?
4) Have they got twins, John and George?
5) Is it a funny animal, a hedgehog, Lily?
6) Are these your best friends, Polly and Dolly, Nell?
7) Mr. Crook, our Dean, is very strict, Peter!
8) Mrs. Sandford, Henry’s mother, is old, Jack.
9) Are these domestic animals, hens and cocks, on the farm?
10) Are those wild animals, zebras and elephants, at the Zoo?
Parentheses in the Middle and at the End of the Sentence (Arakin, p. 71, 408).
Ex. 7. Intone:
1) I’m a writer, just a beginner, you know.
2) He’s a doctor, a dentist, as far as I remember.
3) These children are very naughty, in fact, Bart.
4) I have a wife and a child, as a matter of fact, Sam.
5) Is she married or still single, by the way?
6) Is this animal a fox or a dog, in your opinion?
7) Are you at home, I wonder, Denny, or still at work?
8) Is he a pupil, I’d like to know, Lizzie, or already a student?
9) Is that colourful bird a parrot, by the way, Nelly, or a cock?
10) Are those noisy kids in the yard, to your mind, Granny, or in the garden?
Lesson 7
Direct Address at the Beginning of the Sentence (Arakin, p. 419).
Ex. 1. Intone:
1) Children, listen to your teacher, will you?
2) Mr. Dodson, may I ask you a question?
3) Harry, is the cart on the farm or in the field?
4) Peter, is this box light or heavy?
5) Helen, why were you absent?
6) Ann, when will you pass your debts?
7) Mrs. Sandford, is your sister, Betty Smith, twenty-two?
8) Mary, are the twins, Polly and Dolly, your pupils?
Parentheses at the Beginning of the Sentence (Arakin, p. 401).
Ex. 2. Intone:
1) You see, it is already late, Mum!
2) Besides, it’s a pity to stay at home, Dad!
3) You know, my wife, Bunny, is a dentist.
4) In fact, Barry King, my pal, is a pop-singer.
5) I’m sure, Tom, this summer cottage is very nice.
6) As a matter of fact, Helen, these people are in the park.
7) Probably, I am not very keen on reading books, teacher!
8) Personally, I can’t do this difficult task, professor!
Enumeration (Arakin, p. 85, 434).
Ex. 3. Intone:
1) Dick, Nick and Sam.
2) Bob, Tom and Ted.
3) Polly, Dolly and Molly.
4) Helen, Robert and Benny.
5) I have a flat, a cat and a hat.
6) He has a car, a cottage and a family.
7) Are these people teachers, students and pupils?
8) Are those animals cows, sheep and swine?
9) I have a lot of relatives: uncles, aunts and cousins.
10) He has many professions: a poet, a driver and a lawyer.
11) Pears, apples and plums are fruit.
12) Carrots, cucumbers and beets are vegetables.
13) Are cherries, peaches and bananas berries?
14) Are oaks, ashes and palms trees?
Adverbials at the Beginning of the Sentence (Arakin, p. 373).
Ex. 4. Intone:
1) On the wall there is a map.
2) In the kitchen there is a gas-stove.
3) In the room there is a table, four chairs and a sofa.
4) In the garden there are trees, bushes and a bench.
5) At two o’clock Mr. White is at home, in fact.
6) After four we have dinner, as a rule.
7) In the evening it is already dark, children.
8) In the morning it is hard to get up early, teacher.
Adverbials in the Middle and at the End of the Sentence (Arakin, p. 374).
Ex. 5. Intone:
1) We have our meals in the dining-room.
2) The Browns usually have a bowl of fruit on the sideboard.
3) There is a river and not many people in the park.
4) There is a sofa and two arm-chairs in the dining-room.
5) Nelly, I am never at home in the evening.
6) John, he is always in the garden in summer.
7) Students, who is on duty today?
8) William, what was the matter with you yesterday?
Lesson 8
Well stands at the beginning of the sentence. It may be stressed or unstressed. When it is stressed, it does not always form a separate syntaghm. When it does, it may be pronounced with any nuclear tone: the Low Fall, the Low Rise or with the Fall-Rise (Arakin, pp. 128, 401).
Ex. 1. Intone:
1) Well, yes, of course!
2) Well, no. I won’t do it.
3) Well, I play chess, tennis and billiards.
4) Well, what’s the news, Robert?
5) Well, what’s the matter with you, Mr. Walker?
6) Well, it’s not too good, I’m afraid, Roger.
7) Well, my birthday is on Monday, you know.
8) Well, what do you think of the play, Mum?
9) Well, can you help me, Dad?
10) Well, it is warm enough here, in fact!
Please (Arakin, p. 101).
Ex. 2. Intone:
1) Please, do it in writing!
2) Please, believe me!
3) Please, lay the table for guests, Della.
4) Please, don’t tell me what to do, Ted!
5) Please, read the text louder, Tony, won’t you?
6) Please, write it on the blackboard, Kate, will you?
Ex. 3. Intone:
1) Will you please pass me the bread?
2) Will you please do it again, John?
3) Don’t please tell me that!
4) Don’t please answer the questions!
5) Can you please switch on the light, Thomas?
6) Could you please count to ten, baby?
7) Could you please forget it?
8) May I please perform on the stage?
Ex. 4. Intone:
1) Sit down, please!
2) Stand up, please!
3) Michael, come in, please!
4) George, go out, please!
5) Will you say it again, please?
6) Will you have brown bread for breakfast, please?
Thank You (Arakin, p. 101).
Ex. 5. Intone:
1) Will you please show me the way? – Thank you.
2) Thank you, Helen! Go to your place.
3) How are you, Roger? – Not bad, thank you.
4) How do you do, Lucy? – Thank you, all’s well.
5) Have a piece of cake. – Thank you.
6) How do you find your birthday present? – Great, thank you!
Half-stressed Preposition (Arakin, p. 128).
Ex. 6. Intone:
1) You see, there is a table, four chairs and a kitchen-sink in it.
2) Well, David, it’s pleasant for me.
3) In the middle of the room there is a table with a vase on it.
4) Thank you, Paul! It was nice to talk to you.
5) Della, I don’t know how to thank you for it.
6) What can I do for you, Betty?
The High Fall (Arakin, p. 128).
Ex. 7. Intone:
1) Certainly!
2) Well done!
3) Great!
4) Yes!
5) No!
6) I see!
Accidental Rise (Arakin, pp. 117, 430).
Ex. 8. Intone:
1) What a wonderful green[2] tree is growing near the gate!
2) The forest is filled with a new life!
3) In winter we usually spend more free time indoors.
4) In spring nature awakens from its long winter sleep.
5) Tom Brown is a very good pupil, indeed.
6) Richard Nelson is the best footballer in our town, in fact.
Lesson 9
The Author’s Words Preceding the Direct Speech (Arakin, pp. 117, 430).
Ex. 1. Intone:
1) He says, “Let’s go to the Zoo”.
2) Dick exclaims, “What wonderful weather!”
3) Robert answers, “I’m sorry, I’m not ready today”.
4) The teacher explains, “The Earth is round, children”.
5) She asks, “Will you start doing your homework, Benny?”
6) Granny inquires, “Is the weather as fine today as yesterday?”
The Author’s Words Following the Direct Speech (Arakin, p. 427).
Ex. 2. Intone:
1) “I don’t know”, he says quietly.
2) “He dislikes it”, the boy’s Dad said.
3) “What is it?” the woman asks.
4) “Why are you crying?” Mum wonders.
5) “Is it an interesting book, John?” his desk-mate inquired.
6) “Are these difficult tasks, students?” the teacher was interested to know, when the class began.
Ex. 3. Intone:
1) “I like the place very much,” Mrs. Meadows exclaimed, and there was delight in her eyes.
2) “It’s beginning to pour, Martha,” Mrs. Hilton said, looking at the sky.
3) “What have we got to eat, Mum?” Robert asked, entering the kitchen.
4) “Who is at the door?” the neighbor cried, looking through the window.
5) “Is it the right answer?” the student asked, and the teacher agreed with it.
6) “Are they long holidays?” Tom’s wondered, standing near the door.
Indirect Speech (Arakin, pp. 117, 430).
Ex. 4. Intone:
1) Father says, I’m lazy.
2) Mother says, it is evening already.
3) July is sure, it is not difficult.
4) Philipp is sure, we are in the right place.
5) His teacher says that it is time to pass the debts.
6) My friend says that it is time to have a rest.