D) Use the same phrases in a conversation

This exercise is meant to develop your ability to hear and reproduce intonation in different speech situations.

a) listen to the story "Helen's eyes were not very good..." [82] carefully, sentence by sentence. Mark the stresses and tunes. (The teacher will help you to correct your variant.) Practise reading your corrected variant

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

This exercise is meant to test your ability to read and reproduce a story with correct intonation.

Read the jokes silently to make sure you understand each sentence. Find the sentence expressing the essence of the joke. Split up each sen­tence into intonation-groups if necessary. Mark the stresses and tunes. Un­derline the communicative centre and the nuclear word of each intonation-group. It is not expected that each student will intone the text in the same way. The teacher will help you to correct your variant