A.	Read and record the following pairs.
Make sure you know how to pronounce the second member of each pair!

1.   electrical	electricity	
2.   sarcasm	sarcastic	
3.  sanatorium	unsanitary	
4.   defeatism	undefeated	
5.  dilapidated	dilapidation	
6.  mountainous	mountaineer	
7.  defamation	defamatory	
8.   customary	customarily	
9.   cremation	crematorium	
10. definite	indefinitely	
11. decision	undecided	
12. rededicate	dedicatedly	
13. inflammation	inflammatory	
14. rhythms	rhythmically	
15. ergonomics	unergonomically	
16. scholarship	scholarly	
17. amusing	amusement	
18. insalubrious	safety and sobriety	
19. spontaneously	spontaneity	
20. hesitant	unhesitatingly	
21. appreciation	appreciative	
22. indifference	undifferentiated	
23. insolence	insolently	
24. solvency	insolvent	
25. unaccented	accentuated	
26. unintimidated	intimidation	
27. particular	particularity	
28. detriment	detrimentally	
29. phosphorous	phosphorescent	

B. Read and record the following sentence pairs.
Make the contrast in intonation between the members of each pair very clear.

1.	It is important to face your tests with 
a level head.
	It is important to be level-headed 
when you are taking a test.

2.	I would be nice to have a little machine that conjugates verbs!
	It would be nice to have a little 
verb-conjugating machine!

3.	Of course, that would not give you 
the kind of knowledge that lasts a long time.
	It would not give you long-lasting knowledge.

4.	A normal brain weighing 1,000 grams can do better than a computer with ten billion giga-bytes of memory.
	A normal one-thousand-gram brain is better than a computer with a ten-billion-giga-byte memory.

5.		The difference lies in your human ability to prepare yourself well. Computers depend wholly on programmers for that. Only you can make sure that you are well-prepared.

C.  Tag-Questions. Pronounce each of the following twice. First, pronounce each sentence so that it is compatible in meaning with the notion suggested by the first word underneath (e.g., ‘Approval’, in 1.). Then pronounce the same sentence again, so that it is compatible with the notion suggested by the second word underneath (e.g., ‘Disapproval’, in 1.).

1.	You aren’t going out with that weird slob 
from the Linguistics department, are you

Approval		/	Disapproval

2.	You do know how to use that tool, don’t you
Concern		/	Indifference

3.	You don’t really want your parents 
to see you here, do you

Placing pressure	/	Realization

4.	You can hold your breath longer 
than Céline Dion, can’t you

Amazement	/	Perplexity

5.	You left the oxygen valve open, didn’t you

Sheer panic	/	Reminder

 D.  Read and record the following dialogue.

Since you will have to read both parts, be sure to modulate your voice a little differently for each.

Lenora: Why, hello Dora! I hope you don’t mind my asking if you happen to know my old archery-club adversary, Hughes Orr.

Dora: Honestly, Lenora! Who gives a flying Fedora about some addled old archer who probably can’t even string his own bow anymore, never mind shoot a straight shot.

Lenora: Allow me to introduce you to Horace Lavoris, another highly-acclaimed horse-racing expert. In fact, that’s him coming right now! There goes Horace’s horse, straight down the race-course! 

Dora: Oh, he is gorgeous, isn’t he! Go, Horace, go! 

Lenora: There goes ‘Gorgeous Horace’ Lavoris, the newest and hottest force in horse-racing, and the finest face on today’s race-course!