MODULE TEST IN PHONETICS

FOR THE SECOND-YEAR STUDENTS

OF THE GERMANIC PHILOLOGY DEPARTMENT
SPECIALTY 014.02 SECONDARY EDUCATION
TERM III
VARIANT VI.

Task 1. Make full phonetic analysis of the following communicative unit. Total – 16 points.

Ingvar Kamprad, a founder of the Swedish furniture company Ikea, uses Stockholm’s subway and public buses,
drives a 10-year-old Volvo and flies in economy class. Every year Kamprad personally hands out Christmas
presents to each of Ikea’s staff members.

Task 2. Copy the replies to the verbal contexts. Lay stresses and tone marks according to the attitudinal
meaning given. Define the communicative type of the reply. Present a tomogram. Each correct answer
gives you 2 points. Total – 8 points.

1. give a straightforward, reserved answer

– When did you start learning English?
- I started to learn it about three years ago.
2. give warm, airy reaction, show personal concern
– The car won’t start.
- What’s wrong with it?
3. give genuinely interested, polite and friendly answer
- The cake tastes good.
- Will you have some more?
4. call for a repetition of the information given
- He’ll meet us at three-fifteen.
- At what time?

Task 3. Copy the replies to the verbal contexts. Define the communicative types of the replies and their
attitudinal meanings. Present a tomogram. Each correct answer gives you 2 points. Total – 8 points.

1. - I 'don't 'like this film.||

- I en'tirely ag ree with you.||

2. - 'Will you be 'able to do it? ||

- 'Probably I shall. ||

3. - I 'got there by a 'fourteen bus.||

- ↘Why 'didn't you 'go by tube?||

4. - I’ve 'just 'met her husband. ||

- You like him?||

Task 4. Choose the correct option. Each right answer gives you 1 point. Total - 8 points.

1. How many definite phonetic features called prosodic or suprasegmental does a sentence possess?
a) 3
b) 4
c) 5
d) 6
2. Adverbial group at the beginning of the sentence
a) forms a separate syntagm and takes Low-Rise
b) doesn’t form a separate syntagm and takes Low-Rise
c) forms a separate syntagm and is unstressed
d) forms a separate syntagm and takes Low Fall

3. Which terminal tone should be used if the utterance sounds very emotional?
a) Low Fall
b) High Fall
c) Fall-Rise
d) Low Rise

4. Which of the following components of the utterance includes the unstressed and half-stressed syllables
preceding the first stressed syllable?
a) nucleus
b) pre-head
c) tail
d) head

5. Modal verbs are not stressed

a) in statements
b) in contracted negative forms
c) in general and alternative questions
d) in short answers to general questions

6. How is the function of intonation which can turn a statement into a question, and vice versa, called?
a) sentence-forming.
b) sentence-delimiting.
c) distinctive.
d) attitudinal.

7. Compound nouns are not stressed on the first element:

a) if the two elements are written as one word
b) in expressions consisting of N+N
c) in expressions consisting of Adj.+N, when the first element is the material or ingredient of the thing
d) in phrasal and prepositional verbs used as nouns

8. Which of the following components of intonation gives special colouring to the speaker's voice?
a) stress
b) tempo
c) timbre
d) pitch

Task 5. Read the following words and word-combinations and mark the main stress in them. Each right
answer gives you 1 point. Total - 10 points.

Politicize, reputable, cooperative, impolite, produce (V), bank account, mobile phone, space station, a paper
towel, a civil war.

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