2. Choose the appropriate reaction to convey the suggested attitude. Justify your choice.

a). surprise:

1. She is only working half the time now.

1. Well, we certainly have enjoyed ourselves. But we really must be off now.

1. – But need she?

2. – But need she?

a) – Oh, dear. Must we really?

b) – Oh, dear. Must we really?

b). strong, energetic, insistent

Do you approve of his behaviour?	– Who can ap prove of it? – Who can approve of it?
I doubt if I can do it any better.	– Try again. – Try a gain.
I’ve managed to get a ticket at last.	– What a piece of luck. – What a piece of luck.

c). impatient:

1. I don’t suppose it troubled you much.

2. I’m going to the circus on Sunday.

1. – But it wasn’t altogether easy.

2. – But it wasn’t altogether easy.

1. – Take the children with you.

2. – Take the children with you.

3. Replace the nuclear tone in the following utterances by an emphatic variant so as to express the suggested feelings. Provide an appropriate context for the original and the transformed utterances:

1. I’ll be back at six. (insistence)

2. I didn’t expect them back so soon. (contrast)

3. Send them by morning post. (impatience)

4. I went there on Monday. (disagreement)

5. By the underground. (surprise)

Prompts:

1. When can I expect you back home? Don’t you think it’ll be too late to go to the pictures when you come back?

2. The Browns rang up yesterday to say they are back from their trip. Didn’t you expect to see the Browns back?

3. What shall I do with these letters? I can send these letters when I get home from the office.

4. Are you going to London this week? It’s about three months since you went there, isn’t it?

5. Well, let’s be going. Let’s go there by the underground.

4. Act out the following conversational situations expressing contrast and emphasis in the replies through nuclear shifts and emphatic tones.

1. – What are you doing this evening?

– We are not doing anything as far as I know.

2. – Your wife doesn’t approve of the plan, does she?

– Why, she likes it as much as I do.

3. – That was Peter on the phone.

– What did he want this time?

4. – He said he’d been late because of the evening.

– But there wasn’t any meeting as far as I know.

5. – Let’s call Bill and ask him.

– It’s no use calling Bill.

6. – You can go there by bus next Sunday.

– But it doesn’t run on Sundays.