tailieunhanh - Tài liệu về Colin Mortimer - Elements of Pronunciation (book)(2)

Tài liệu tham khảo dành cho giáo viên, học sinh kham khảo các tài liệu ôn tập và học môn tiếng Anh. Tài liệu cung cấp cho bạn những kiến thức rất hữu dụng giúp bạn củng cố kiến thức và rèn luyện khả năng giao tiếp và học tiếng Anh tốt hơn. | Contractions HAD and 129 Hadn t haednt Wouldn t wudnt WOULD A I hadn t expected a promotion. B Well you wouldn t would you A I really hadn t expected it. B You wouldn t I suppose. A I certainly wouldn t have got it if he d checked my file. B Oh he checked it certainly - because gave it to him. A But surely if he d seen that old letter he wouldn t have promoted me. B If he d seen it he wouldn t no. A Naughty girl. MODALS 130 Could ve kudav etc. HAVE A But darling if only you could ve apologised B Hm He should ve apologised to me Ỉ A But he s older than you. You could ve said you were sorry surely. B I suppose I could ve said I was. But that would ve been telling a lie. A But only a little one. You could ve said it just to keep the peace. For my sake B Oh all right. You win. Where is the old devil 74 Contractions 131 Conclusion A Well that s the end of Contractions . B A Hope you ve enjoyed it. B Mm. A Hope it s helped you. B Mm. A Hope we ll meet again some time. B Mm. t On the tape Speaker B s part is not recorded. Students should supply their own intonation on Mm according to which of the many possible meanings they wish to convey. 75 Stress Time Introduction This section consists of dialogues in which the main rhythmical patterns of spoken English are presented first individually then in pairs then in larger combinations. The rhythm of English English is a stress-timed language. That is to say the beats or stress pulses in connected speech follow each other at roughly equal intervals of time One Two Three Four This means that if there are any unstressed syllables between stresses these have to be fitted in without delaying the regular beat of the stress pulses printed in bold type throughout One Two Three Four One and Two and Three and Four One and a Two and a Three and a Four One and then a Two and then a Three and then a Four The more unstressed syllables there are after a stress the quicker they must be said in order to catch the next pulse . . . . Yes .