English Grammar: a resource Book for Students
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English Grammar- A Resource Book for Students
ANALYSING SPOKEN TEXTS
A) Study this transcript of an unplanned monologue by a woman recalling a high school experience. The recording can be listened to on the website. The speaker is from the American Midwest and displays some of the accent features of that region. Note the lack of punctuation other than the use of dashes (to indicate pauses). 1. well – being a semi-geek – in high school – I – was also in the marching band – 2. and – basically – we had to – perform at football games – at the 4th of July parade 3. of course – and we had to wear these horrible uniforms – that were – in our 4. school colours of course – red white and blue – made of 120 per cent polyester – 5. and we had to march in formation out on the football field – before the games and 6. during half time – and one time we were marching – doing our little – kind of – 7. sequence of movements on – the field – right before a game and the football 8. players were – warming up – and I played the flute – and – at one point some guy 9. from the opposing team – kicked the ball – out of control – and – the ball came 10. flying towards me and hit me in – the mouth – which – hit my flute as well – 11. luckily I didn’t have any broken teeth but I had a broken flute – and – a bloody lip 12. – anyway – there was mass panic – the whole formation kind of fell apart – and 13. all these – you know – panicking women were running out onto the field to see 14. what was wrong – and I was holding my – hand to my mouth – and – some women 15. from the – I don’t know – what do you call it – the – what is it called – it’s kind of 16. sports – this group of people who raise money for sports and kind of you know 17. distribute the money and stuff for school activities – came over and started yelling 18. at me to not get blood on my white gloves – that those white gloves cost ten 19. dollars a pair or something – here I am – blood streaming from my mouth – my 20. thousand dollar flute in pieces – and lucky to be alive – and she’s screaming at 21. me about getting blood on my – gloves – anyway I quit marching band after that Vocabulary: geek – a person who is not very sociable Do the dashes indicating pauses correspond to any grammatical divisions? Would it be possible to add more punctuation, for example commas, and if so where? Could the text even be divided into grammatical sentences (as was done in C9)? For example, how about anyway on line 12; does it go with the preceding or following text? C12 Download 1.74 Mb. Do'stlaringiz bilan baham: |
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