MODULE TEST IN PHONETICS
FOR THE SECOND-YEAR STUDENTS
OF THE GERMANIC PHILOLOGY DEPARTMENT
SPECIALTY 014.02 SECONDARY EDUCATION
TERM III
VARIANT XII.
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 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. give a calling for repetition answer
- How did he find out?
- How did he find out?
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. – 'John 'can’t 'find the 'file anywhere.
– 'What has he done with it?
2. – He 'says he is ill.
- 'Is he really ill?
3. – We 'saw 'Mike the 'day before yesterday.
– ↘ 'How is he 'getting on?
4. – I 'can’t 'play chess.
– Can’t you?
Task 4. Choose the correct option. Each right answer gives you 1 point. Total - 8 points.
1. Which of the following components of the utterance includes stressed and unstressed syllables preceding the
nucleus?
a) nucleus
b) pre-head
c) tail
d) head
2. Which of the following components of intonation falls and rises while the utterance is pronounced?
a) Stress
b) tempo
c) timbre
d) pitch
3. Adverbial group at the end of the sentence
a) forms a separate syntagm and takes Low-Rise
b) doesn’t form a separate syntagm and takes Low-Rise
c) doesnt form a separate syntagm and is unstressed or partially stressed.
d) forms a separate syntagm and is unstressed
4. Apposition
a) forms a separate syntagm and takes the intonation of the preceding sense-group
b) forms a separate syntagm and takes Low Fall
c) forms a separate syntagm and takes Low Rise
d) doesn’t form a separate syntagm and is unstressed or partially stressed
5. Modal verbs are not stressed
a) in statements
b) in contracted negative forms
c) in general and alternative questions
d) in short answers to general questions
6. Which terminal tone should be used if the utterance sounds casual, tentative, questioning?
a) Low Fall
b) High Fall
c) High-Rise
d) Low Rise
7. Parentheses in the middle or at the end of the sentence
a) do not form a separate syntagm, take Low Rise if the speaker doesn’t attach importance to these words
b) do not form a separate syntagm and are unstressed or partially stressed.
c) form a separate syntagm, take Low-Fall, if the speaker attaches importance to them
d) form a separate syntagm, take Low-Fall, Low Rise or Fall-Rise
8. The word “please” at the beginning of the sentence
a) can be both stressed and unstressed and forms a separate syntagm.
b) is stressed but doesn’t form a separate syntagm.
c) is unstressed, doesn’t form a separate syntagm and follows the intonation of the preceding syntagm
d) is stressed and follows the intonation of the preceding sense group.
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.
Toothache, American football, pronunciation, routine job, cough-mixture, extremity, comparative, baby-food,
homesick, lemon juice.
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фонетики і практики англійської мови
(протокол № 3 від 12.11. 2020)
Зав. кафедри – к.ф.н. доц. Гнєзділова Я.В.
Укладач – ст. викл. Сивкова М.Г.
