Lengua y Expresión Oral 3: Mid-term exam

Dictation:
Watch the fable (The Tortoise and the Hare) and transcribe.

Some help: Difference between AmE and RP
http://rs563.rapidshare.com/files/245021183/accents.pdf.zip

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Topics to consider:

1. the moral of the story
2. what Crystal and Butch learn with this experience
3. what Crystal and Butch's parents learn with this experience
4. the role of the Media and technology
5. social classes
6. communication among the characters
7. the importance of the snowball scene. The symbolism of the snowball.
8. personality
9. Multiple Intelligences and learning
10.relationships
11.work and leisure
12. why you would/wouldn't work with this fable with your students.

Intonation: Mock test

INTONATION IN CONTEXT: Unit 4, dialogue 4 (pages 26 and 27)

*Identify three highlighted words and thirteen tones (between the brackets) with their correspondent tonic syllables.
*The three highlighted words do NOT belong to the utterances in which you have to identify the tones.
*Explain why each tone has been chosen.

Cathy: Hello, Bob.

Bob: Hi. You’re looking well.
Cathy: Thanks. And so are you. (1….) You got back safely then?
Bob: Yes. (2…....) We arrived this morning.
Cathy: (3….) This morning? (4….)I thought you were due back a couple of days ago?
Bob: Mmm, that had been the plan.
Cathy: Well, (5…) what happened?
Bob: (6…..) You’ve heard about the rail strike?
Cathy: Oh, yes, of course. (7…) But I had forgotten you were travelling by train. (8......) How did you manage?
Bob: Well, you see, (9….) we came by coach. It took a lot longer but we got back OK.
Cathy: So I see. (10…)You don’t sound as though you minded.
Bob: No. (11....)We didn’t mind at all. (12.....) It took a lot longer, but it was very comfortable – and it was much cheaper. In fact, (13......) we’ve decided to go by coach next time!

Audio: http://www.goear.com/listen/3d85f90/Intonation-in-Context-4.4-Barbara-Bradford

16/07/2009
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