EXTRACT 1 Look at the five extracts below, taken from different lectures and mark in pencil the
words which you think should be stressed and where your voice should rise and fall. Read the extracts out loud to your partner, as if you were giving a talk or a lecture,
paying particular attention to the intonation patterns needed to keep the listener
interested and to ensure that the meaning is clear. After you have both read each
extract, listen to the recording and compare it with your versions.
Try recording your own voice and then listen to yourself.
Urban society began when hunter-
gatherers learnt (a) how to farm land,
(b) how to domesticate animals and
(c) how to build permanent structures
to act as shelter.
There are three levels of government
in Australia: firstly, there is Federal
Government; then there is State
Government and thirdly we have
Local Government.
There are three levels of government in Australia: firstly, there is
Federal Government, which looks after issues of national importance
such as immigration and defence. Then there is State Government
located in each capital city, and which has responsibility for such
things as education, the police and urban and regional planning, and
thirdly we find Local Government, which controls services such as
waste collection, public libraries and childcare centres.
Was Napoleon poisoned or did he die of natural causes? The Napoleonic Society
of America, an association of historians and collectors, has given a modern twist
to this debate. They have done this by revealing the results of chemical analyses
of hair said to have come from the head of the French emperor.
The many forms and styles of handwriting which exist have attracted a wide
range of aesthetic, psychological and scientific studies, each with its own aims
and procedures. Moreover, each of the main families of writing systems
(European, Semitic, East Asian) has its own complex history of handwriting styles.