Ship or Sheep?

Date: 2015-10-07; view: 513.

Stress time

№15

A: /Pendlebury's / coming in a / minute if he / can.

B: / Coming in a / minute if he / can?

A: / ^/ Pendlebury / seems to be en/gaged.

B: /Tell / Pendlebury, /^/ tell him from his / boss, / ^/ tell him that he's / fired!

A: /Permanently?

B: /Permanently, / definitely, / positively / fired!

A: /Poor / Pendlebury.

B: /Hah!

№16

A: /Come and /see us at our /new a/partment.

B: / Where's your /new a/partment? / Is it in a/nother / district?

A: / No, it's /very /close to the a/partment that I /used to live in. /Come and /see us.

B: /How about /tomorrow?

A: /Round about /seven? We're at/ home by /seven. /Come and have some /dinner with us, /Janet.

B: /John, you / haven't /actually /told me /yet who /“us” is!

№5. At a party [ ʌ] - [ a:].

Margaret: Where's your glass, Barbara?

Barbara: It's on the bar.

Martin: Barbara! Margaret! Come into the garden! Martha and Charles are dancing in the dark.

Margaret: In the garden? What a laugh!

Barbara: So they are! They're dancing on the grass!

Margaret: They're dancing under the stars!

Martin: And Arnold's playing his guitar.

Barbara: Doesn't Martha look smart!

Margaret: Look at Charles! What a marvellous dancer!

Barbara: Ah! Let's take a photograph of Martha and Charles.

Martin: We can't. It's too dark.

№6. A Lost book [ʊ].

Mr Cook: Woman! Could you tell me where you've put my book?

Mrs Cook: Isn't it on the bookshelf?

Mr Cook: No. The bookshelf is full of your cookery books.

Mrs Cook: Then you should look in the bedroom, shouldn't you?

Mr Cook: I've looked. You took that book and put it somewhere, didn't you?

Mrs Cook: The living-room?

Mr Cook: No. I've looked. I'm going to put all my books in a box and lock it!

Mrs Cook: Look, Mr Cook! It's on the floor next to your foot.

Mr Cook: Ah! Good!