Practical task
Date: 2015-10-07; view: 475.
1. Make a glossary of the main notions and give their definitions.
2. Mark the nuclear tone you think is appropriate in the following responses.
| Verbal context | Response-utterance | Nuclear tone |
| It looks nice for a swim. | It's rather cold (doubtful) | |
| I've lost my ticket. | You're silly then (stating the obvious) | |
| You can't have an ice-cream. | Oh, please (pleading) | |
| What times are the buses? | Seven o'clock, seven thirty, ...(listing) | |
| She won the competition. | She did! (impressed) | |
| How much work have you got to do? | I've got to do the shopping (and more things after that) | |
| Will you go? | I might. (uncertain) |
3. Define the sentence focus in every case.
Mary told John all the secrets. (Not just a few secrets)
Mary told John all the secrets. (She didn't tell Richard, or Harold or...)
Mary told John all the secrets.(She didn't hint, imply them...)
Mary told John all the secrets. (It wasn't Angela, or Beatrice or...)
Mary told John all the secrets. (She told him not the news, or the story...).
4. Divide the sentences into rhythmic groups attaching the unstressed syllable to the preceding stressed syllable rather than the following one.
Thankyou for the present.
Somebody calledyou when you were out.
I would have triedto seehis pointof view.
Perhapswe might goto the movie togetherfor once.
I should thinkit would be better to waittill tomorrow.
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