5. Give your own replies to the Verbal Context:

I’m afraid I failed my exam.

1. statements conveying personal concern, involvement or protest;

2. special questions sounding unpleasantly surprised, displeased or protesting;

3. general questions sounding impatient, protesting;

4. imperatives sounding lively, with a note of critical surprise;

5. exclamations conveying affronted surprise, protesting.

Present your replies in writing, give their tonograms.

6. This exercise is meant to test your ability to analyze and reproduce material for reading and retelling.

1. Read the jokes silently to make sure you understand each sentence. Find the sentence expressing the essence of the joke. Divide each phrase into intonation groups if necessary. Locate the communicative centre of each sentence. Mark the stresses and tunes. Practise reading the jokes.

2. Tell the jokes in indirect speech. Entitle them.

1. “Mamma, I’ve got stomach ache”, said the six-year-old Nellie.

“That’s because your stomach is empty. You would feel better if you had something in it. You have been without your lunch”.

That afternoon Uncle John called, and in conversation complained of a severe headache.

“That’s because it’s empty, said Nellie”.

“You would feel better if you had something in it”.

2. Once an old gentleman went to see a doctor. The doctor examined him and said: “Medicine won’t help you. You must have a complete rest. Go to a quiet country place for a month, go to bed early, drink milk, walk a lot, and smoke just one cigar a day”.

“Thank you very much”, said the gentleman, “I shall do everything you say”.

“Oh, doctor”, said the gentleman a month later, “I feel quite well now. I had a good rest. I went to bed early, I drank a lot of milk, I walked a lot. Your advice certainly helped me. But you told me to smoke one cigar a day, and that one cigar a day almost killed me at first. It’s no joke to start smoking at my age”.

7. a). Mark stresses and tunes in the following text. Listen to the model. Mark the stresses and tunes. Compare your intonation with that of the model. Practise the text according to the model:

Doctor, Dentist and Chemist

If you have toothache, you should go to your dentist. He’ll examine your teeth, and if the aching tooth is not too far gone, he’ll stop it. If it is too bad, he’ll take it out.

If you don’t feel well, you should consult a doctor. If you feel too ill to go to the doctor’s you’ll have to send for him. He’ll ask you to describe to him the symptoms of your illness. Then he’ll feel your pulse, look at your tongue and examine you thoroughly. Finally, he’ll prescribe the treatment and write out a prescription.

Doctor’s prescriptions are made up by a chemist. At chemists’ shops in the USA you can also get patent medicines of all kinds, lotions, tonics, cough-mixtures, baby-foods, aspirin, pills, ointment, bandages, adhesive plaster and so on. You can buy razor-blades, vacuum-flasks, hot water bottles, sponges, tooth-bushes and tooth-pastes, powder-puffs, lip-sticks, shaving-soap and shaving-brushes and a hundred and one other things.

If you are interested in photography, you can also get cameras and films at most chemists’. They’ll develop and print your films for you, too. Some chemists are also qualified opticians, and if your eyesight’s faulty they’ll test your eyes and prescribe glasses for you.