Respond using the High Fall to emphasize delight, joy, pleasant surprise, approval, self-satisfaction.

I'm going to St. Petersburg tomorrow.

What a very nice garden!

I rather like Susan.

You are invited to dub the film.

What did you think of the show?

Mary's getting better.

You've won the first prize!

I've brought you some flowers. I've finished my exams.

Fine! Marvellous! Now, aren't you lucky! Pretty good!

Simply wonderful! What a magnificent view!

Pretty, isn't she! Isn't she very bright!

Splendid! Smashing! Oh, good!

Simply wonderful! Magnifi­cent! Delightful! Quite per­fect! First rate! Gripping!

What a delightful surprise! At last! Marvellous!

Pretty good! Now, isn't that peculiar! Yes, didn't it go well!

How kind of you! Thanks aw­fully! That is good of you!

Congratulations! Clever, aren't you! Quite the best thing you've ever done!

Respond using Intonation Patterns IX or X to emphasize hostility, anger, indignation, disgruntled protest.

I've lost my invitation card.

He says it was your fault.

Harry's not coming to tea.

Mary's put paint all over the carpet.

Isn't it cold today? I shan't stay a minute longer.

I shan’t stay a minute longer.

Awful! When, for heaven's sake? Aren't you just the sort of person to drive me mad? How annoying!

The brute! Pretentious non­sense! What on earth are you getting at?

Why! How annoying! What a bore he is! Isn't he silly? How can he be so obsti­nate?

Why did she do it? Isn't she just the sort of person to rive you mad? What a nui­sance she is!

What ghastly weather! Fear­fully cold! Beastly!

How can you say such a stupid thing? What on earth are you getting at?

Respond using the Fall-Ri to xpress reproach, concern, regret, hurtto feelings, reluctance and impatience.

He's broken a window

What an extraordinary hat!

The key doesn't seem to work.

He's forgotten to shut the gate.

I think you are being very unfair.

I think it's the best film of the year

Frank refused the offer!

Nonsense! Rubbish! No won­der! Why can't he leave things alone!

Isn't it just what you'd expect of him?

Isn't it a picture! Have you seen anything like that!

Now, what's the matter? Isn't it strange! Can I help at all? I should think so indeed! Why not! How very strange!

Have you seen anything like that? It's much too late to have any regrets now. Well, he does amaze me! Isn't it just what you'd expect of him!

Nonsense! I should think so in­deed! Not in the least! Oughtn't you be ashamed!

Rubbish! Well, you do amaze me!

Don't I know it! How very strange! Now, what's the matter?

Listen to the following proverbs and sayings. Make sure you understand each sentence. Observe the peculiarities of intonation group division, pitch, stress and tempo. Underline the communicative centre and the nuclear word of each intonation group. Practise reading the proverbs and sayings. Make your reading expressive. Memorize them.

A man's as old as he feels and a woman's as old as she looks.

Sit in your place, and none can make you rise.

Who chatters to you will chatter of you.

If a man deceives me once, shame on him; if he deceives me twice, shame on me.

You can't eat your cake and have it.

He's a good physician who cures himself.

Two things a man should never be angry at: what he can help and what he can't help.

Better be ill spoken of by one before all than by all before one.

Young men think old men fools, and old men know young men to be so.

12. Make up a dialogue of your own to illustrate the proverbs and sayings given above. Use the High Fall, the High Rise, the Fall-Rise and the Fall + Rise in it.

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