Sound Practice. A. Listen to the fairy tale The Elves and the ShoemakerA. Listen to the fairy tale The Elves and the Shoemaker. Finish the diagram of the English diphthongs.
B. Listen to the fairy tale once again. Transcribe the words containing diphthongs. Arrange the examples according to their glides.
C. Listen to the fairy tale. Define the monophthongs which never occur a) in a word final position; b) under stress. Do it in writing. a) /Q, A:, U, V, e, {/; b) /@/ Intonation practice A. Listen to the fairy tale. Write down compound and complex sentences. Divide them into intonation groups. Lay stresses and tone marks. Analyse the use of tones in them and give written explanation as to their use. Compound: The shoemaker worked hard but he was very poor and each day he and his wife became poorer and poorer. Just as the clock struck twelve the door of the shop opened with a creak, and in came two tiny elves. They were dressed in old tarty clothes and their feet were bare. Their clothes are old and they haven’t any shoes As usual on the stoke of twelve the door opened with a creak and in ran the little elves ready to begin their work. Complex: It was not very long before the shoemaker could only afford one piece of leather to make one pair of shoes. The shoemaker and his wife were very sad for they knew that they would soon be penniless. Early the next morning the shoemaker went into his workshop to stitch the leather that he had cut. The shoemaker picked them up and ran to show his wife who said, “Who has made such a perfect pair of shoes?”. But neither he nor his wife had any idea who had made them. She was so overjoyed with their quality that she paid the shoemaker twice the usual price. With this money the shoemaker was able to buy enough leather for two pairs of shoes which he cut out that night all ready for him to stitch in the morning. When he saw those two perfect pairs of shoes he was so pleased that he bought them immediately and paid the shoemaker twice the usual price. And so it went on: four pairs, eight pairs, sixteen pairs, all perfectly made whilst the shoemaker and his wife were asleep. Yet they still had no idea who had made the shoes for them. So one evening after the shoemaker had finished cutting the shoes he and his wife decided to stay up and see who it was who helped them. They were unaware that they were being watched by the shoemaker and his wife. They worked so hard and so quickly that they had soon finished. The shoemaker and his wife both agreed that this was a good idea. And in the evening that followed they began to make the elves some new clothes. The shoemaker chose the softest leather that he could find to make them little shoes whilst his wife made two little white shirts, two green jackets, and two pairs of trousers to match. It was Christmas Eve when the clothes were finished. The shoemaker and his wife laid the clothes out on a work bench and then hid themselves as they had done before and waited for the elves to come. But there were no shoes to make for there were only the beautiful little clothes laid out on the bench. They chatted and laughed as they quickly changed into their new clothes. But they remained rich and happy and never forgot those little cobblers who brought them such fortune. B. Listen to the fairy tale. Write down the sentences containing personal pronouns in a postnuclear position. Define the type of sentence stress on them. Practice reading them. Record your reading. a) The shoemaker picked them up and ran to show his wife who said, “Who has made such a perfect pair of shoes?” b) But neither he nor his wife had any idea who had made them. c) With this money the shoemaker was able to buy enough leather for two pairs of shoes which he cut out that night all ready for him to stitch in the morning. d) When he saw those two perfect pairs of shoes he was so pleased that he bought them immediately e) Yet they still had no idea who had made the shoes for them. f) So one evening after the shoemaker had finished cutting the shoes he and his wife decided to stay up and see who it was who helped them. g) “Why don’t we make some clothes for them?” said his wife. C. Listen to the fairy tale. Define and describe the prosodic means at the juncture of two paragraphs. Comprehension Practice A. Give the Ukrainian equivalent to the title of the fairy tale. B. Write downyour questions revealing the plot of the fairy tale. C. Listen to the text, divide it into communicative blocks, entitle them. D. Listen to the fairy tale, find the logical centres of each communicative block and of the whole text. Write them down. E. Define the most important paragraphs or sentences in the fairy tale and state their informational value in the communicative progression of the text. F. Retell the text of the fairy tale imitating the speaker’s intonation.
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