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READING COMPREHENSION EXERCISES 
1. Consult a dictionary and practise the pronunciation of the following words. Pay attention to the stresses: 
conscientious, 
photograph, 
anonymous, 
antithesis, 
ambiguous, 
homogeneous, 
megalomania, coincidence, cleavage, languorous, incisive, psychic, itinerary. 
2. Read out the passage beginning with "For the first time..." up to TB show it to somebody, he thought" 
using proper tone groups and observing the rhythm. Convey proper attitudes and all the phonetic 
phenomena of connected speech. 
3. a) Practise this brief conversation: 
Student A expresses either annoyance at Walter Streeter or criticizes him. He suggests 
irritability and sounds reprovingly critical. Remember what rate of utterance may be 
associated with negative emotions.
Student B defends Walter Streeter. Mind that expressing disagreement you might 
sound challenging, persuasively reassuring, be reluctantly or defensively dissenting; for 
the pur-

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pose make use of the intonation patterns "Fall-Rise" and "Rise-Fall".
Student C asks for reasons and expresses his own personal verdict. Be aware of the 
change in attitudes. 
b) Now in pairs talk about the pros and cons of judging a person by his/her handwriting. Impart your own 
attitude. Use proper intonation patterns which the argument or discussion require. 
4. Substitute one of the speech patterns (p. 77) for the parts of the sentence in bold type. 
M o d e 1 s: a) She wanted to put a coin into the slot but changed her mind as she had 
very little money.
She was just going to put a coin into the slot when she remembered that she had very 
little money and decided not to.