MODULE TEST IN PHONETICS
FOR THE SECOND-YEAR STUDENTS
OF THE GERMANIC PHILOLOGY DEPARTMENT
SPECIALTY 014.02 SECONDARY EDUCATION
TERM III
VARIANT X.
Task 1. Make phonetic analysis of the following communicative unit. Total – 16 points.
Sadly, but losing one's job and becoming unemployed is a common occurrence for many people these days. The
people who have been made redundant can claim social security to cover the cost of daily living - food, heating
bills and rent.
Task 2. Copy the replies to the verbal contexts. Lay stresses and tone marks according to the
attitudinal meaning given. Define the communicative type of the reply. Present a tomogram. Each
correct answer gives you 2 points. Total – 8 points.
1. give a straightforward, reserved answer
– How did you spend the morning?
- I stayed in bed until nearly lunch time.
2. give warm, airy reaction, show personal concern
– You’ll never get there.
- It’s not as far as you imagine.
3. give genuinely interested, polite and friendly answer
- I see you are going to the post.
- Have you any letters you’d like me to post?
4. sound questioning, casual, tentative
- That won’t work at all.
- You have got a better suggestion?
Task 3. Copy the replies to the verbal contexts. Define the communicative types of the replies and their
attitudinal meanings. Present a tomogram. Each correct answer gives you 2 points. Total – 8 points.
1. - 'What's that you say? ||
- ↗ Why 'don't you listen? ||
2. - It is 'really fan tastic. ||
- Fantastic?||
3. - 'Thank you 'very much.||
- You're welcome.||
4. - 'Where is my book? ||
- I think you 'left it on the table. ||
Task 4. Choose the correct option. Each right answer gives you 1 point. Total - 8 points.
1. How many terminal tones are distinguished for practical purposes of teaching and learning English
intonation?
a) 4
b) 5
c) 6
d) 8
2. At the beginning of the sentence the word “please”
a) forms a separate syntagm and takes a high pre head
b) forms a separate syntagm and is stressed
c) is stressed but doesn’t form a separate syntagm
d) is not stressed and doesn’t form a separate syntagm
3. Which terminal tone should be used if the utterance sounds friendly, polite and incomplete?
a) Low Fall
b) High Fall
c) Fall-Rise
d) Low Rise
4. Which of the following components of the utterance includes the unstressed and half-stressed syllables that
follow the nucleus?
a) nucleus
b) pre-head
c) tail
d) head
5. The verb “to be” is not stressed
a) in short answers to general questions
b) in contracted negative forms
c) when it is final and preceded by an unstressed subject
d) in statements
6. How do the statements with the High Rise terminal tone sound?
a) genuinely interested
b) not categorical, non-final, soothing, reassuring
c) questioning, trying to elicit a repetition
d) friendly, sympathetically interested in the subject or a person
7. Which type of pronouns is usually unstressed in emotionally neutral speech?
a) demonstrative
b) interrogative
c) indefinite
d) reflexive
8. Which of the following components of intonation gives the greater prominence to the word or words in the
utterance?
a) pitch
b) stress
c) tempo
d) timbre
Task 5. Read the following words and word-combinations and mark the main stress in them. Each right
answer gives you 1 point. Total - 10 points.
Horseback, night shifts, boiling point, safety valve, dissatisfied, hostility, prosecution, editorial, industrialize,
competitive.
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