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2.
Read and retell the following jokes: 
Doctor’s Orders 
Servant: Sir, wake up, wake up! 
Master: What’s the matter?
Servant: It’s time to take your sleeping tablets. 
Politeness 
Mother: Which apple do you want, Tom? 
Tom: The biggest one. 
Mother: Why, Tom, you should be polite and take the little one. 
Tom: Well, Mamma, should I lie just to be polite? 
His Pipe 
 
Little girl: Grandpa, would you like me to give you a new pipe for your birthday? 
Grandpa: That’s very nice of you, Mary, but I have got a pipe. 
Little girl: I don’t think you have, Grandpa. I’ve just broken it. 
A Good Student 
 
Professor: Can you tell me anything about the great chemists of the 17
th
century? 
Students: Yes, sir, they are all dead, sir. 
 
 
Intonation Pattern VII 
 
 
(Low Pre-Head +) Falling Head + Fall Rise 
Model : 

Type out this letter at once. 
 
I 

can’t 'possibly 
ˎ
finish it 
ˏ
now.
·
·

 

..

 
This intonation pattern is used in statements, commands and other communicative types of 
sentences to express the same attitude as Intonation Pattern VI. (Low Pre-Head +) Fall-Rise 
(+ Tail). Stressed syllables of the head sometimes glide down. 
e.g. I didn’t know you drank coffee.
I 
→
do 
ˎ
some
ˏ
times.
 
 
 
Exercises 
 

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1. Read the following conversational situations. Concentrate your attention on the 
intonation of the replies: 
Verbal context
 
 
 
 
Drill 
S t a t e m e n t s (expressing concern, hurt
feelings, reproach, contradiction, correction,
uncertainty, contrast, grumbling) 
Do you smoke? 
I do sometimes.
Can we smoke here?
It’s not forbidden.
Are you using the ruler? 
Not at the moment. 
Are you coming for a swim?
Not I. Not likely. 
May I come to your lecture?
There’ll be nothing new in it for you. 
What about this green dress?
I shouldn’t buy that one if I were you. 
C o m m a n d s (urgent, warning) 
She’s an absolute failure.
Now be fair. 
We’ll leave before dawn. 
Have a heart. 
Have a bit of sense. 
Look, Mummy, I’m right at the top.
Mind you don’t fall. 
2. Read the jokes. Find the main phrases in the texts. Split up each sentence into 
intonation-groups, mark the stresses and tunes. Underline the communicative center and 
the nuclear word of each intonation-group. Make up tonograms. 
When a group of women got in the car every seat was already occupied. The conductor noticed a man 
who seemed to be asleep, and, fearing he might miss his stop he said to the man: “Wake up.” 
“I wasn’t asleep,” the man protested. 
“But you had your eyes closed.” 
“I know. I just hate to look at ladies standing up in a crowded car.” 
* * * 
A very stout lady said angrily that she wanted to report the conductor of the bus that had just gone. 
“He’s been rude,” she shrilled. 
“How?” asked the official. 
“Why,” went on the lady. “He was telling people the bus was full up and when I got off he said: 
“Room for three inside.”