Lec S05: Focusing on INTONATION
Channel: Rui English
Date: 2018-02-26

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RuiEnglish Lesson: S05 Focusing on intonation

Building Skills 📊 Focusing on intonation

Read the passage as you listen to it. Mark the passage to show the overall intonation patterns.

START ▶
(man)   Professor Cline?
(woman)  Yes?
(man)   I'm Robert Daley. The work-study office sent me.
(woman)  Oh, I've been waiting for them to send someone. Did you say your name  was Robert!
(man)   Yes.
(woman)  What's your major, Robert?
(man)   Zoology.
(woman)  Good. You have some science background then. Let me show you what  
we're doing in our lab.
(man)   Will I be working in the biology lab?
(woman)  Yes. We're studying the speed of reproduction of paramecia. Uh, paramecia
   are the most complex single-celled organisms.
(man)   Oh, that sounds interesting.
(woman)  Well, what we need you to do is probably not so interesting.
(man)   And what is that?
(woman)  We'll need you to come in every day at the same time and count the paramecia.
(man)   Count paramecia?
(woman)  Yes. It's very important to keep an accurate count and fill the numbers in  
on a form. I'll show you where the forms are and explain how to complete it
later. After you have completed the form, you need to give it to Nancy. She's
the woman that you met in the lab office. She'll feed your numbers into the
computer for our statistical analysis. Right now; though, I want to introduce
you to the other members of our team so that we can arrange a convenient
time for you to come in.
STOP ▉

For further practice, listen to the passage again and try to reproduce the speech patterns.

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