The Law of Gravity
Date: 2015-10-07; view: 415.
Dwell on how the communicative vale of intonation demonsatrate itself through intensity of emotion.
Exercises
1. ² Listen to the following remarks where people are expressing indignation, and suggest situations in which they might be appropriate. Comment on the prosodic features of every phrase. Observe the intensity of emotion in every situation.
· It's not as if he was hard up, after all
· Call this work?! You ought to be ashamed of yourself!
· You will never get away with this!
· Can't you be serious for at least once!
· All right, that'll do… That'll do, I said!
· Well, all I can say is, don't come running to me!
· What do you mean, your money?!
· I just don't see how you can't get that. It's so very obvious!
2. ² Listen to the text below and intone it:
· separate one intonation group from the other
· mark the sentence stress
· define the tone used in the nucleus
One day when Newton was sitting in his garden under an apple tree, he saw an apple fall onto the ground. Of course the fall of an apple is a very common thing. A great many people before Newton had seen an apple fall onto the ground, bt they never had taken the trouble to investigate such an everyday occurrence. Newton was the first man to ask: ‘Why does an apple fall to the ground? What makes it fall? Why does it not go up into the sky? Or why doesn't it go sideways when it leaves the tree?'
He thought the matter over for a very long time. It took him many years to solve the problem. At last he found out that the Earth pulls all the things towards its own centre, and it was the reason why the apple had fallen towards the Earth and not away from it. Newton also found that the sun attracts the Earth, and that each planet attracts other planets, just in the same way as the Earth attracts apples.
3. ² Extend the following tunes pronouncing the phrases given in brackets as the head:
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