1.mark sentence-stressesand underline all the content words in the sentence: ‘i sent them a photo of the children.’ w hat parts of speech are content words? 2.mark sentence-stressesand underline all theform-wordsin the sentence: ‘they all went for a walk in the park.’ w hat parts of speech areform-words? 3.are the personal and possessive pronouns generally stressed in connected speech? 4.transcribe the following sentence, mark the stresses and tunes. read it, make it sound rhythmically correct: ‘he told his son to wait for him.’ 5.are the auxiliary and modal verbs generally stressed in con nected speech? 6. try to remember in what positions the auxiliary and modal verbs are generally stressed in a sentence. 7.transcribe the following sentence, mark the stresses and tunes. read it: ‘w hat do you generally do in the evening? ’ mind that the verb to do is used here first as an auxiliary, then as a content verb. 8.pronounce the correct forms of the verb can in the phrase: ‘i can do it as well.’ and now in: ‘can you write it your self? ’ give other examples where auxiliary and modal verbs have their strong forms. 9.in what positions are prepositions generally stressed in a sen tence? 10.transcribe, mark the stresses and tunes and read the sen tence: ‘w ho are you waiting for? ’ which form of the prepo sition for have you used? give other examples where pre positions have their strong forms. 11.which form-wordshave no weak forms? 12.give examples of the word that as a demonstrative pronoun and as a conjunction. 13.transcribe, mark the stresses and tunes and read the sen tence: ‘he isn't away, is he? ’ give examples where linkverbs have their strong forms. 14.transcribe, mark the stresses and tunes and read the sentenc es: ‘we have an elder brother.’ ‘he has left for the urals at present.’ how have you transcribed the verb have in the first sentence, andhas in the second?
