SECTION EIGHT. HIGH PRE-HEAD
1. Listen carefully to the following conversational situations. Concentrate your attention on the intonation of the replies:
2. Listen to the replies and repeat them in the intervals. Make your voice rise high when pronouncing the initial unstressed syllables.
3. Listen to the Verbal Context and reply to it in the intervals.
4. In order to fix the High Pre-Head in your mind, ear and speech habits pronounce each reply several times until it sounds perfectly natural to you.
5. Listen to a fellow-student reading the replies. Tell him (her) what his (her) errors in pronunciation are.
6. Read the drill sentences according to the given model. Concentrate your attention on the High Pre-Head:
7. Listen carefully to the following conversational situations. Concentrate your attention on the intonation of the replies:
8. Listen to the replies, and repeat them in the intervals. Make your voice rise high when pronouncing the High Pre-Head.
9. Listen to the Verbal Context and reply in the intervals.
10. In order to fix the High Pre-Head in your mind, ear and speech habits pronounce each reply several times until it sounds perfectly natural to you.
11. Listen to a fellow-student reading the replies. Tell him (her) what his (her) errors in pronunciation are.
12. Read the drill sentences according to the given model. Concentrate your attention on the High Pre-Head:
13. Listen carefully to the following conversational situations. Concentrate your attention on the intonation of the replies:
14. Listen to the replies and repeat them in the intervals. Make your voice rise high when pronouncing the High Pie-Head.
15. Listen to the Verbal Context and reply in the intervals.
16. In order to fix the High Pre-Head in your mind, ear and speech habits pronounce each reply several times until it sounds perfectly natural to you.
17. Listen to a fellow-student reading the replies. Tell him (her) what his (her) errors in pronunciation are.
18. Read the drill sentences according to the given model. Concentrate your attention on the High Pie-Head:
19. Give your own replies to the Verbal Context of Ex. 1, 6, 7, 12, 13, 18.
20. This exercise is meant to develop your ability to hear and reproduce intonation in different speech situations.
21. Read the following sentences, using intonation patterns you find suitable. Use them in conversational situations of your own:
22. This exercise is meant to develop your ability to introduce teaching material in class with correct intonation.
23. This exercise is meant to test your ability to introduce some teaching material in class with correct intonation.
24. Act as a teacher in class, using the material from the lectures above.
SUPPLEMENT
GRAMMAR EXERCISES
REVISION EXERCISES ON TENSE AND VOICE
1. a) Comment at» the use of the Present Indefinite and the Present Continuous:
b) Use the Present Indefinite or the Present Continuous instead of the infinitives in brackets:
2. Translate the sentences into English, using I hear and I am told where possible:
3. a) Comment on the Present Perfect and the Present Perfect Continuous:
b) Use the Present Perfect or the Present Perfect Continuous instead of, the infinitives in brackets:
c) Translate these sentences into Russian:
4. Use the Past Indefinite or the Present Perfect instead of the infinitives in brackets:
5. a) Comment on the Past Indefinite, the Past Continuous, the Past Perfect and the Past Perfect Continuous:
b) Use the required past tense instead of the infinitives in brackets:
6. Translate the sentences into English, paying attention to the use of tenses:
7. a) Comment on the use of the future tenses (the Future Indefinite, the Future Continuous and the Future Perfect):
b) Use the required future or present tense instead of tee infinitives in brackets where necessary:
8. Use the reguired tense instead of the infinitives in brackets:
9. Replace the Infinitives in brackets by the required tense, paying attention to the sequence of tenses:
10. Change the following from direct into indirect speech:
11. Use the required teases instead of the infinitives in brackets:
12. Think of a suitable context to use the following sentences:
13. Translate these sentences Into English:
14. Use the required tenses instead of the infinitives in brackets:
15. Comment on the use of tenses in the following sentences and translate them into Russian:
16. Use the required tenses instead of the infinitives in brackets and translate the sentences into Russian:
17. Use the required tenses instead of the infinitives in brackets and comment on their use:
I8. Pay attention to the use of the Continuous tenses. Translate the sentences into Russian:
THE SUBJUNCTIVE MOOD AND THE CONDITIONAL MOOD
19. Name the oblique moods used in the following sentences and translate the sentences into Russian:
20. Comment on the mood of the verb in the following sentences:
21. Complete the following sentences a) using the Conditional Mood;
b) using the Subjunctive Mood:
22. Supply the correct mood of the verbs in brackets:
23. Change into sentences of unreal condition:
24. Translate these sentences into English:
25. Comment on the use of the Subjunctive Mood and translate the sentences into Russian:
26. Supply the correct mood of the verbs in brackets:
27. Comment on the use of the Conditional Mood and translate the sentences into Russian:
28. Translate the sentences into English, paying attention to the use of the Conditional Mood:
29. Supply the correct mood of the verbs in brackets:
30. Translate the sentences into English paying attention to the use of the Subjunctive and the Conditional:
31. Comment on the use of the Old Present Subjunctive and translate the sentences into Russian:
MODAL VERBS
33. Comment on the form and meaning of the verb can. Translate the sentences into Russian:
34. Use the verb can in the correct form followed by the appropriate infinitive:
35. Translate Into English, using; the verb can;
36. Comment on the form and meaning of the verb may. Translate the sentences into Russsian:
37. Translate these sentences into English, using the verb may.
38. Fill in the blanks with the verbs can or may in the correct form:
39. Point out the oblique moods and modal phrases with can and may. Translate the sentences into Russian:
40. Translate these sentences into English, using can or may.
41. Comment on the meaning of the verb must. Translate the sentences into Russian;
42. Translate the following sentences Into English:
43. Change the following sentences from Active into Passive:
44. Fill in the blanks with the verbs can, may or must:
45, Translate these sentences into English, using the verbs can, may, mash
46. Comment on the meaning of have to. Translate the sentences into Russian:
47. Fill in the blanks with must or have to:
48. Make the following sentences negative and interrogative:
49. Change the following statements into disjunctive questions:
50. Group the examples according to the meaning of the "be + infinitive" construction: (i) expressing a previously arranged plan (2) expressing instructions or commands:
51. Comment on the use of must, have to, be to and translate the sentences into Russian:
52. Comment on the meaning of the verb need:
53. Fill in the blanks with didn't have to or needn't have:
54. Fill in the blanks with mast, have to, be to or need:
55. Translate the sentences into English, using must, ham to, be to or need:
56. Comment on the meaning of the verb ought. Translate the sentences into Russian: