IDENTIFICATION AND LOCATION OF TONE GROUP BOUNDARIES

I-

Listen to the recording and mark the boundaries between

speech units with // in these extracts. The first one has been
done for you.

1. Thats the main thing //and then if youve got any questions afterwards
hopefully well still have time to go through a few of them is that okay
2. Shed left when she had a baby and then decided not to go back
although the job had been kept open for her.
3. Tom dear wheres the advert for this calculator because I dont know the
address and I dont know who Ive got to make the cheque payable to.
II-

Each of these extracts consists of three speech units. Put // in

two of the four spaces to show where you expect the speech
unit boundaries to be.

Example
When
1.
2.
3.
4.
5.
6.
7.

you read it carefully // it doesnt say anything // thats very critical.

When I woke up I didnt even realize what time it was
Of course its written in a language that hardly anyone can understand.
I was working late because they want it done as quickly as possible
Because he was ill I didnt expect him to come to work
If I get some time Ill be over on the weekend to see you both.
Luckily we havent had any rain since the day we arrived.
It should never have been built in my opinion this new office building.

III-

Now listen and check your answers. Then read the extracts
aloud.
Complementary
therapy, which focuses on the whole person, is
becoming more widely used. It considers a patients physical
symptoms and also takes lifestyle into account.
IVPrepare to read aloud this extract from a talk about
Most
practitioners believe
that theThink
body seeks
a state
of balance.
complementary
therapy.
about
where
you will put
What complementary therapy does is help people achieve this
speech unit boundaries and mark these with //. Read the text
balance. Treatment not only relieves the disease but also promotes
aloud.
general
wellbeing.
How complementary therapy works is still not entirely clear. Recent
research has
compared
it focuses
with traditional
medicine.
In one
study
Complementary
therapy,
which
on the whole
person,
is becoming
more
in Canada
a group of
patients
who had severe
back
pain
widelyconducted
used. It considers
a patients
physical
symptoms
and also
takes
lifestyle
were treated either with complementary or traditional treatments.
into account.
Patients who had complementary treatments showed faster rates
of improvement.
1

Most practitioners believe that the body seeks a state of balance. What
complementary therapy does is help people achieve this balance. Treatment
not only relieves the disease but also promotes general wellbeing.
How complementary therapy works is still not entirely clear. Recent research
has compared it with traditional medicine. In one study conducted in Canada a
group of patients who had severe back pain were treated either with
complementary or traditional treatments. Patients who had complementary
treatments showed faster rates of improvement.
V-

Now listen to the extract to compare your version

VI-

Watch the clip from the Imitation Game, and mark tone group
boundaries. The following exchanges have been selected.

HUGH ALEXANDER: You know to pull off this irascible genius routine, one has
to actually be a genius, Alan. Yet were the ones making progress here, arent
we?
ALAN TURING: You are?
HUGH ALEXANDER: Yes, we are. We have decrypted a number of German
messages by analyzing the frequency of letter distribution.
ALAN TURING: Oh. Even a broken clock is right twice a day. Thats not
progress, thats just blind luck. Im designing a machine that will allow us to
break every message, every day, instantly.