Байланысты: Аракин В.Д. Практический курс английского языка. 2 курс
17. This exercise is meant to test your ability to analyze and reproduce material for reading and retelling.
a) Read the joke silently to make sure you understand each sentence. Underline the sentence expressing the essence of the joke. Split up each phrase into intonation groups if necessary. Locate the communicative centre of each sentence. Mark the stresses ana tunes, concentrate your attention on the attitude expressed. It is not expected that each student will mark the story in exactly the same way. Discuss your variants in class. The teacher will help you to choose the best variant. Practise your corrected variant for test reading, b) Retell the joke in your own words: The father of a family, who was angry with his children because they were displeased with their food, exclaimed angrily one day at dinner: "You children are intolerable; you turn up your noses of everything. When I was a boy, I was often glad to get dry bread enough to eat." "Poor papa," said Rose, "I'm so glad you are having such a nice time now living with mama and us."
