Chapter 1/ American intonation Exercise 1-22: Syllable Patterns continued CD 1 Track 32 4 Syllables Pattern 4a la-la-la-la Nate needs a break. Max wants to know Spot's a hot dog Ed took my ca Als kitchen floor Jim killed a snake. Jill ate a steak. Bi’ s halfway there. Joe doesn't know. Spain's really far. Roses are red, Nate bought a book. Jakes in the lake. Violets are blue Al brought some ice. Sam's in a bar. Candy is sweet, and so are you Pattern 4b la-la-la-la She asked for help. I want to know. It's a hot dog We took my car the kitchen floor He killed a snake. We need a break. We watched Tv He doesnt know.. It's really far. She’ s halfway there. We came back in. I love you, too We played all day. He bought a book. They got away Please show me how Pattern 4c la-la-la-la> Boys ring doorbells. Phil knows mailmen Bob likes hot dogs. Bill ate breakfast. Joe grew eggplants Ann eats pancakes. Guns are lethal. Humpty Dumpty Cats eat fish bones. Inchworms bug me. Hawks are vicious Bears are fuzz Ragtops cost more. Homework bores them Planets rotate Salesmen sell things. Mike can hear you. Pattern 4d la-Ia-la-la an alarm clock He said“ lightbulb. It's my hot dog.X I don't need one. What does"box"mean? imitation Ring the doorbell. Put your hands up analytic What 's the matter? wheres the mailman? We like scien introduction an assembly my to-do list my report card definition Pattern 4e la-la-la-la potato chip What time is it? a hot dog stand Whose turn is it? my phone number Jim killed a man. We worked on it. Lets eat something. How tall are you? How old are you? invisible Insanity untouchable a platypus bilit a maniac Pattern 4f la-Ia-Ia-la lighthouse keeper permanently window cleaner cough medicine demonstrated race car driver b ss meeting categor January (iaen wery) February (febeyoowery) office supplies progress report baby-sitter educator thingamajig ctionary
American Accent Training Exercise 1-23: Syllable Count Test CD 1Track 33 Put the following words into the proper category based on the syllable count intonation Write the pattern number in the space provided. Check Answer Key, beginning on p. 193 Single Words 5. analyze (v) 9. believe 6. analysis(n) 10. director 3. sympat 7. analytic(adi 11. indicator 4. sympathetic mistake 12. technology Noun phrases 1. tech support 5. English test 9. a fire engine 2. software program 6. airline pilot 10. sports fanatic 3. the truth 7.Y2K 11. the kitchen floor 4. notebook 8. Santa Claus computer disk Phrases 1. on the table 5. for sure way 2. in your dreams 6. OK 10. like a princess 3. last Monday 1. to pick up 4. for a while 8. back to back 12. a pickup Sentences 1. Al gets T-shirts. 5. I don't know 9. She has head lice 2. i went too fast 6. Bob works hard 10. Gail has head lice 3. Get up 7. It's in the back 11. Sue's working hard 4. Get one! 8. Buy us some 12. I want some more Mixed 1. Do it again 8. in the middle 15. Make up your mind 2. Joe was upset 9. It's a good trick. 16. Tom has frostbite 3. banana 10. specifically 17.sam’ s a champ. 4. banana split 1. Bill needs it 18. He's a winner 5. categorize 12. jump around 19. He likes to win 6. child support 13. on my own 20. Al hates pork chops 7. Mexican food 14. by myself 21. He likes ground beef. Make up your own examples, one of each pattern. Make up more on your own 2b6. 10 7 4e 12
Chapter 1/American intonation Complex Intonation Word Count Intonation Patterns CD 1 Track 34 This is the beginning of an extremely important part of spoken American English-the rhythms and intonation patterns of the long streams of nouns and adjectives that are so commonly used. These exercises will tie in the intonation patterns of adjectives (nice, old best, etc. ) nouns(dog, house, surgeon, etc. ) and adverbs(very, really, amazingly, etc.) One way of approaching sentence intonation is not to build each sentence from scratch Instead, use patterns, with each pattern similar to a mathematical formula. Instead of plug ging in numbers, however, plug in words In Exercise 1-2, we looked at simple noun verb noun patterns, and in Exercise 1-22 and 1-23, the syllable-count intonation patterns were covered and tested. In Exercises1-24 to 1-37, we'll examine intonation patterns in two word phrases It's important to note that there's a major difference between syllable stress and com pound noun stress patterns In the syllable count exercises, each syllable was represented by a single musical note. In the noun phrases, each individual word will be represented by a single musical note---no matter how many total syllables there may be. At times, what appears to be a single syllable word will have a"longer"sound to it- seed takes longer to say than seat for example. This was introduced on page 3, where you learned that a final voiced consonant causes the previous vowel to double Exercise 1-24: Single-Word Phrases CD 1 Track 35 Repeat the following noun and adjective sentences N。un Adjective 1.It’ s a nail It's short 2. It's a cake It's chocolate. [chakl't 3. It's a tub Its hot. hat 4. It's a drive It's hard 5.It’ s a door. It's in back. [baek] 6. It's a card There are four 7. It's a spot. [spat] It’ s small 8. It's a book. IbukI It’ s good.[gid Write your own noun and adjective sentences below. You will be using these examples through out this series of exercises 9. It's It 10. It's a It’s 11. It's a Its
American Accent Training Two-Word Phrases Descriptive Phrases CD 1 Track 36 Nouns are""than adjectives; they carry the weight of the new information. An adjective and a noun combination is called a descriptive phrase, and in the absence of contrast or other secondary changes, the stress will always fall naturally on the noun In the absence of a noun, you will stress the adjective, but as soon as a noun appears on the scene, it takes immediate precedence--and should be stressed. Exercise 1-25: Sentence Stress with Descriptive Phrases CD 1 Track 3 Repeat the following phrases Adjective N。 un and Adjective 1. It's short It's a short nail 2.It’ s chocolate. It's a chocolate cake 3. Its good It's a good plan 4. It's guarded It's a guarded gate 5. Its wide It's a wide river 6. Therere four There’ re four card 7. It was small It was a small spot 8. It's the best It's the best book Pause the Cd and write your own adjective and noun/adjective sentences. Use the same words from Ex 1-24 9. Its It's a 10.It’s Its a 11. It's It's a Exercise 1-26: Two Types of Descriptive Phrases CD 1 Track 38 Re Adjective Noun Adverb Adjective I. It's a short nail It’ s really short 2. Its a chocolate cake. It's dark chocolate 3. It's a hot bath It's too hot 4. It's a hard drive Its extremely hard
Chapter //American Intonation Exercise 1-26: Two Types of Descriptive Phrases contin CD 1 Track 38 5. It's the back door It's far back 6. There are four cards. There are only fo 7. It's a small spot It's laughably small 8. Its a good book It's amazingly good Pause the cd and write your own adjective/noun and adverbladjective sentences, carrying over Ex 1-25 9.It’sa Its 10. Its a It l1.It’sa It's Exercise 1-27: Descriptive Phrase Story-The Ugly Duckling CD 1 Track 39 The following well-known story has been rewritten to contain only descriptions. Stress the second word of each phrase. Repeat after me There is a mother duck. She lays three eggs. Soon, there are three baby birds. two of the birds are very beautiful. One of them is quite ugly. The beautiful ducklings make fun of their ugly brother. The poor thing is very unhappy. As the three birds grow older, the ugly duckling begins to change His gray feathers turn snowy white. His gangly neck becomes beautifully smooth In early spring, the ugly duckling is swimming in a small pond in the back yard of th ld farm He sees his shimmering reflection in the clear water what a great surprise! He is no longer an ugly duckling. He has grown into a lovely swan Set Phrases CD 1 Track 40 a Cultural indoctrination to American norms When I learned the alphabet as a child, I heard it before I saw it. I heard that the last four letters were dubba-you, ex, why, zee. I thought that dubba-you was a long, strange name for a letter, but I didn't question it any more than i did aitch. It was just a name. Many years later, it struck me that it was a double U. of course, a w is really UU. I had such a funny feeling, though, when I realized that something I had taken for granted for so many years had a background meaning that I had completely overlooked. This"funny feeling "is ex actly what most native speakers get when a two-word phrase is stressed on the wrong word. When two individual words go through the cultural process of becoming a set phrase, the original sense of each word is more or less forgotten and the new meaning completely takes over. When we hear the word painkiller, we think anesthetic. If, however, someone says painkiller, it brings up the strength and almost unrelated meaning of kill When you have a two-word phrase, you have to either stress on the first word, or on