Chapter 1/ American intonation Exercise 1-28: Sentence Stress with Set Phrases CD 1 Track 4 Repeat the following sentences Noun Noun/Adj. Set Phrase 1. Its a finger It's a nail It's a fingernail. It's a pa It's a cake Its a pancake. 3. It's a tub It's hot It's a hot tub (Jacuzzi) 4. It's a drive It's hard It's a hard drive 5. It's a bone It's in back It's the backbone (spine) 6. It's a card It's a trick It's a card trick 7. It's a spot Its a light. It's a spotlight. 8. It's a book It's a phone It's a phone book. Pause the CD and write your own noun and set phrase sentences, carrying over the same nouns you used in Exercise 1-25. Remember, when you use a noun include the article (a an,the), when you use an adjective, you don' t need an article 9. It's a It's a Its a 10.It’sa It's a It’sa 11.It’sa It’sa Its a Exercise 1-29: Making Set Phrases CD 1 Trad Pause the Cd and add a noun to each word as indicated by the picture. Check Answer Key, beginning on page 193 1. a chair F+9 a chairman 11. a wrist c 2. a phone 3. a house 13. a high鼎 4. a base g a hunting 15. a dump 6. The White血 16. a jelly 7. a movie☆ 17. a love Ea 8. The Bullet 20& 18. a thumb 平 19. a lightning N 10 a coffee re 20. a pad o
American Accent Training Exercise 1-30: Set Phrase Story-The Little Match Girl CD 1 Track 43 The following story contains only set phrases, as opposed to the descriptive story in Exer- cise 1-27. Stress the first word of each phrase The little match girl was out in a snowstorm. Her feet were like ice cubes and her fingertips had frostbite. She hadnt sold any matches since daybreak, and she had a stomachache from the hunger pangs, but her stepmother would beat her with a broomstick if she came home with an empty coin purse. Looking into the bright living rooms, she saw Christmas trees and warm fireplaces. Out on the snowbank, she lit a match and saw the image of a grand dinner table of food before her. As the matchstick burned, the illusion slowly faded She lit another one and saw a room full of happy family members. On the last match, her grandmother came down and carried her home. In the morning, the passersby saw the little match girl. She had frozen during the nighttime, but she had a smile on her face Contrasting a Description and a Set Phrase We now have two main intonation patterns-first word stress and second word stress In the following exercise, we will contrast the two Exercise 1-31: Contrasting Descriptive and Set Phrases CD 1 Track Repeat after me Descriptive Phrase Set Phrase 1.It’ s a short nail It's a fingernail 2. It's a chocolate cake Its a pancake 3. It's a hot bath It's a hot tub 4. It's a long drive.←b It’ s a hard drive 5. It's the back door It's the backbone 6. There are four cards It's a card trick 7. It's a small spot It's a spotlight 8. It's a good book It's a phone book Pause the Cd and rewrite your descriptive phrases(Ex 1-25) and set phrases(Ex 1-28) 9.It’sa It's a I0.It’sa Its 11. Its a It's a
Chapter //American Intonation Exercise 1-32: Two-Word Stress CD 1 Track Repeat the following pairs Descriptive Phrase Set Phrase a light bulb a light bulb blue pants blue jeans gis a cold fish a goldfish 欠 a gray hound n a greyhound an old key an inn key a white house The White House a nice watch a wristwatch a sticky web a spider web 忠 a clean cup a coffee cup a sharp knife a steak knife a baby alligator a baby bottle a shiny tack thumbtacks a wire brush a hairbrush a new ball a football a toy gun aa machine gun ae a silk bow Q朋 D a band-Aid ☆ a bright star a firecracker Mary Jones 4 a mailbox Bob Smith a spray can s3 foreign affairs a wineglass $ down payment o a footprint 圈围^ N New York a strawberry sSS Social Security a City Hall an Ice cream
American Accent Training Summary of Stress in Two-Word Phrases First Word set ph light bulb Main street O or corp. Xerox Corporation nationalities of food Chinese food nationalities of people French guy sec。ndw。 rd descriptive phrases road designations Fifth Avenue modified adjectives really big place names and parks New york, Central park institutions or Inc Oakland Museum, Xerox Inc personal names and titles Bob Smith, Assistant Manager personal pronouns and possessives his car, Bob's brother articles e bus a week an hour initials and acronyms U.S., Ic chemical compounds zinc oxide red orange, 26 most compound verbs go away, sit down, fall off percent and dollar 10 percent, 50 dollar hyphenated nationalities African-American descriptive nationalities Mexican restaurant Nationalities When you are in a foreign country, the subject of nationalities naturally comes up a lot. It would be nice if there were a simple rule that said that all the words using nationalities are stressed on the first word. There isn't, of course. Take this preliminary quiz to see if you need to do this exercise. For simplicity's sake, we will stick with one nationality--American Exercise 1-33: Nationality Intonation Quiz CD 2 Track Pause the Cd and stress one word in each of the following examples. Repeat after me 1. an american an American restaurant 3. American food 4. an American teacher 5. an English teacher When you first look at it, the stress shifts may seem arbitrary, but let's examine the logic behind these five examples and use it to go on to other, similar cases
Chapter 1/ American Intonation 1. an American guy The operative word is American; guy could even be left out without changing the meaning of the phrase. Compare I saw two American guys yesterday, with I saw two Americans yesterday. Words like guy, man, kid, lady, people are de facto pronouns in an anthropocentric language. A strong noun, on the other hand, would be stressed- They flew an Americanflag. This is why you have the pattern change in Exercise 1 22: 4e, Jim killed a man: but 4b. He killed a snake 2. an American restaurant Don't be sidetracked by an ordinary descriptive phrase that happens to have a na tionality in it. You are describing the restaurant, We went to a good restaurant yes terday or We went to an American restaurant yesterday. You would use the same pattern where the nationality is more or less incidental in I had French toast for breakfast. French fry, on the other hand, has become a set phrase 3. American food Food is a weak word. I never ate American food when I lived in Japan. Let's have Chinese food for dinner 4. an American teacher This is a description, so the stress is on teacher. 5. an English teacher This is a set phrase. The stress is on the subject being taught not the nationality of the teacher: a French teacher, a Spanish teacher, a history teacher. Exercise 1-34: Contrasting Descriptive and Set Phrases CD 2 Track 2 Repeat the following pairs Set Phrase Descriptive Phrase An English teacher. An English teacher … teaches English is from england An English book An English book... is on any subject teaches the English language. but it came from england An English test. An English test . is on any subject tests a student on the English language. but it deals with or came from England English food An English restaurant is kippers for breakfast serves kippers for breakfast