Read the following dialogues, put stress-tone marks on them using different types of scales and practice reading them.

14. Listen to the abstract from “Julius Caesar” by William Shakespeare, lay stress-tone marks in the last 10 lines. Pay attention to the sentences in bold; comment on the additional shades of meaning of these sentences. Practice reading the poem, learn it by heart and act it out in front of your group.

Antony’s Address to Romans

“Julius Caesar”

(by W. Shakespeare)

ˏ Friends, | ˏ Romans, | ˎ countrymen, | ˎ lend me your ˎ ears; |

ˈ I ˈ come to ˎ bury ˌ Caesar, | ˈ not to ͵ praise him.||

The ˈ evil that ˈ men ˎ do| ˈ lives ˎ after ˌ them, |

The ˌ good is ˈ oft inˋ terred with their ˎ bones; |

ˈ So ˈ let it ˈ be with ˎ Caesar.|| The ˈ noble ˏ Brutus|

Hath ˏ told you| ˎ Caeˏ sar| was amˋ bitious.||

̅ If it were ˎ so, | it was a ˎ grievous ˌ fault, |

And ↘ grievously hath ↘ Caesar ˋ answer’d it|

↗ Here ↗ under ↗ leave of ˏ Brutus ˈ and the ˏ rest, |

For ˏ Brutus| ˏ is an ˋ honourable ̬ man; |

So are they ˎ all, | ˎ all| ˈ honourable ˎ men, |

ˈ Come I to ˎ speak| in ˈ Caesar’s ˎ funeral.||

He ˈ was my ˎ friend, | ˏ faithful| and ˎ just to| ˎ me; |

But ˈ Brutus → says| he ˈ was amˋ bitious; |

And ˏ Brutus| is an ˎ honourable ˌ man.||

He hath brought ˈ many ˋ captives ˌ home to ˌ Rome, |

Whose → ransoms| did the ˈ general ˎ coffers ˌ fill; |

Did ˈ this in ˏ Caesar| ˈ seem amˏ bitious? |

When that the ↘ poor had ̬ cried, | ↘ Caesar hath ˋ wept; |

Amˏ bition| should be ˈ made of ˋ sterner stuff; |

ˏ Yet| ˏ Brutus| ˏ says| he ˈ was amˎ bitious; |

And ˏ Brutus| ˏ is an ˙ honourable ˎ man.||

You ↘ all did ˎ see| that on the ˈ Luperˏ cal|

I ˈ thrice preˈ sented him a ˈ kingly → crown, |

Which ↘ he did ↘ thrice reˋ fuse: | was ˈ this amˏ bition? ||

Yet Brutus says he was ambitious;

And, sure, he is an honourable man.

I speak not to disprove what Brutus spoke,

But here I am to speak what I do know.

You all did love him once, not without cause:

What cause withholds you then to morn for him?

Oh judgment! Thou art fled to brutish beasts,

And men have lost their reason. Bear with me;

My heart is in the coffin there with Caesar.

And I must pause till it comes back to me.

15. Listen to the following statements about celebrities. Choose one that you like most, write down a few ideas about the statement that you’ve chosen (up to 10 sentences) and tell them to your group-mates using the Sliding, Scandent and Level Scales.

1. A celebrity is a person who works hard all his life to become well known, and then wears dark glasses to avoid being recognized.

2. I don’t want to achieve immortality through my work. I want to achieve it through not dying.

3. There is only one thing worse than being talked about, and that is not being talked about.

4. What goes up, must come down.

5. Winning isn’t everything, but it sure as hell beats losing.

6. Whenever a friend succeeds, a little something in me dies.

7. Genius is one per cent inspiration, ninety-nine per cent perspiration.

8. If at first you don’t succeed, try, try again.

9. Nothing succeeds like success.

10. Let me tell you about the rich. They are different from you and me.

Unit 3. Medicine

 

16. Listen to the dialogue, put stress-tone marks. Practice reading and reciting the dialogue. Find sentences with the High Fall and the Fall-Rise. How are they different from the others?

A How are Judith and Timothy Thorpe’s triplets?

B Those three? Well… both Heather and Cathy are very healthy, but I think they’re having rather a lot of trouble with Matthew.

A With Matthew? What’s the matter with Matthew?

B Teething troubles, I think, and then he won’t eat anything.

A Teething troubles? But how old are the triplets now?

B I think they’re about thirteen months.

A Thirteen months? Oh, I thought they were a lot younger than that.

B No, they must be thirteen months because it was their first birthday at the end of last month – on the thirtieth… or was it the thirty-first?

A Oh, dear, and I didn’t send them anything, not even a birthday card… I wonder what Judith and Timothy thought?

B Don’t distress yourself, dear, they didn’t say anything to me…