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Listen to the audio file and identify the tonality, tonicity and tone choices the speaker makes.

Mark
it on the text in ordinary spelling. You can do it in your own handwriting (if so, you have to take a
picture of it and upload it, as usual) or you can do it on the attached Google doc and use
compatible symbols. Whatever is easier for you.

Like Mother like Son

Father: // ‘Where did this ‘blood come from, ՛son? //

Son: // I cut my ៴ thumb/ with the ‘butter ՝knife.//

F: // Come ՛here./Let me ‘take a ՛look at it. / How could you ‘cut your ՛thumb / with the
՝butter

knife? / It can ‘barely ‘cut the ՝butter.//

S: // I ‘guess I’m ՝clumsy. //

F: // Just like your ՝mother. //

Mother: // His ‘mother might be ៴ clumsy,/ but she isn’t ՝deaf. //

F:// Sorry, ՝honey. / But you ‘must ՛admit / your ‘merely touching a ՛cutting object / is good
enough a ៴ reason / for ‘people to ՝run. //

M: // It ‘might ՝be. / But wasn’t it my ‘loving ՛husband / the one who ‘poked his ‘cousin’s
՛eye / while ‘carving a ՝duck?

F: // ៴ Yeah. / But ՛wasn’t it / the ‘stubborn ‘mother of my ៴ son/ who ‘cut her brother’s ˊwrist /
while ‘chopping ՝mutton?

M: // ៴ Yeah. / But wasn’t it my ‘numbskull of a ՛husband / who ‘dug an ՛ice-pick / into his own
՛thigh muscle? //

F: // ՛Yeah. / But ՛wasn’t … //

S:// I think it’s ‘begun to form ៴ pus. //

Father and Mother: // ៴ Shut up! //

S: // ៴ OK. / I’ll ՛just … /՝dial 911, or something. //

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