Make up a dialogue about your future profession

This exercise is meant to develop your ability to hear intonation and reproduce it in reading and narration.

a) listen to the joke "Nothing to Complain About", sentence by sen­tence. Write it down. Mark stresses and tunes. Practise the joke for test reading.

b) Listen to the narration of the joke. Observe the peculiarities in intonation-group division, pitch, stress and tempo. Note the use of tempo­rizers. Reproduce the model narration of the joke.

This exercise is meant to test your ability to analyze and reproduce material for reading and retelling.

A) Read the jokes silently to make sure you understand each sentence. Underline the sentence expressing the essence of the joke. Split up each sentence into intonation groups if necessary. Locate the communicative centre of each sentence. Mark the stresses and tunes, concentrating your attention on the attitude expressed. It is not expected that each student will mark the story in exactly the same way. Discuss your variants in class. The teacher will help you to choose the best variant. Practise your corrected variant for test reading.

b) Retell the jokes in your own words:

No Music Lessons

Once the teacher asked his pupil: "Bobby, how many fingers have you?" The pupil answered at once: "I have ten fingers."

The teacher asked him another question: "Well,if four were missing what would you have then?" "No music lessons," was the answer.