Intonation Pattern XIII

(LOWPRE-HEAD +) (HIGH HEAD +) HIGH RISE

Always?

Can't you?

May I?

This time?

Doesn't it?

Are we to?

Haven't they?

Will it do?

Can I start?

Is it brown?

Were they mixed?

Are they as good?

Will they be there?

Were they enough?

Will they be?

Which is it?

Won't it be done?

Are you the one?

What did you say?

Will she be there?

Which did he take?

Will you wait?

Were you in time?

Can she do this?

Couldn't she stay?

Is it all here?

Did John like it?

Have you seen it?

Is it wanted?

 

Is that the man who sent you tickets?

Hasn't John given Mary the paper?

Can you tell me the shortest way to the station?

Aren't you going to take the children to school?

Are you quite sure I'm not bothering you?

3. This exercise is meant to review Intonation Patterns I, III, IX, XII. Read the following sentences with the Low Fall, making your voice fall from a medi­um to a very low pitch; with the High Fall, making your voice fall from a high to a very low pitch; with the Low Rise, making your voice rise from a low to a medium pitch; with the High Rise, making your voice rise from a medium to a high pitch. Use them in conversational situations. Observe the difference in at­titudes.

 

I can admit her. How can you accept this I do mean that. answer?

He's a decent fellow. Refuse it.

He thought so. Be frank with us. Who can resist it?

4. This exercise is meant to develop your ability to hear and reproduce into­nation in proper speech situations. Listen to the following dialogue. Write it down. Mark the stresses and tunes. Practise the dialogue. Find sentences with the High Fall and the High Rise. Observe the attitudes they convey. Record your reading. Play the recording back immediately for your teacher and fellow-stu­dents to detect the errors in your pronunciation. Practise reading each sentence of your corrected variant after the cassette-recorder. Practise reading the dia­logue with a fellow-student. Make up a conversation with a fellow-student using any phrases from the dialogue. See that your Russian pronunciation habits do not interfere.