Prepare your own extract from fiction in English for artistic reading.
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Listen to the audio track, mind the intonation pattern and prepare your own dramatization of the extract:
Lesson 13
Nora: Harry… would you like to give me a hand before you go out?
Harry: Of course, Nora, I'd be pleased to. What do you want done?
Nora: Well, I want to turn out the drawing-room this morning, and I wondered if you would very much mind moving the china cupboard out from the wall?
Harry: The china cupboard! Why, that hasn't been moved away from the wall since my mother gave it to us.
Nora: All the more reason for moving it now! I should like to sweep behind it – there must be a heap of dust that wants getting rid of.
Harry: Right you are. Do you mind if I finish my coffee first? (He does) Now then. Let's see this cupboard. H'm. Now Nora, would you mind putting your hand on it, just to steady it while I pull it forward. We don't want it falling over.
Nora: Don't you want the china taken out first?
Harry: No, I think we can manage. It isn't so very heavy. Ugh! It's coming! Would you mind not pushing it back while I'm trying to pull it out?
Nora: You told me to steady it!
Harry: (Laughs) Yes, darling – you're doing very nicely. Ugh! Here she comes; (a slight tinkle). What was that?
Nora: Something fell down behind the cupboard. Oh, look, Harry! It's your mother's ring that she thought had been stolen. After all this time!
Harry: How marvelous! That's your reward for cleaning the room so thoroughly.
Nora: It's you who ought to have a reward for helping me move the cupboard.
Harry: Well, I can't wear the ring – but I hope you will!
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