Prime Time 4, Coursebook

Everyone laughs. Mr G.: (annoyed) … Jade! I don’t want to hear your colourful excuses. If you’re late again, your part will go to your understudy. Now, the whole cast is finally here, let’s read the script. Scene One! Pronunciation: Sentence stress a) Read the pronunciation box and then reread Ross’ sentences from scene 1 aloud and see how the meaning of the sentence changes. Ross: Did my heart LOVE till now? … Did my heart love till NOW? … For I never saw true beauty till this NIGHT! For I never saw true beauty till THIS night! b) Now read aloud this sentence, stressing one of the underlined words each time. I asked you to buy me a bunch of red roses. Scene 2: Learning the part Listen and read along. In Deva’s bedroom. Blossom is helping Deva learn her part. Deva: (lying on the bed and looking at the ceiling) … Two of the fairest stars in all heaven. Blossom: You what? Deva: It’s how Romeo describes Juliet’s eyes. Well of course she totally falls for him. Imagine if a boy said that sort of thing to you! Blossom: You really understand Juliet, huh! Jade should be your understudy! She never knows her part. Deva: During rehearsal the prompt has to feed her pretty much every line! Blossom: And she’s always late, always has some crazy excuse. Deva: What was it last time, ‘Someone tried to kidnap me on the way to rehearsal, sir’? They laugh. Blossom: Or ‘I couldn’t learn my part because I came down with a nut allergy’. Deva: To be fair, I think Jade is actually allergic to nuts. Blossom: Humph! With Jade Chapman you never know what’s true. Deva: Hey, listen to Romeo’s lines when he first sees Juliet: (reading the script) “Did my heart love till now? (Romeo shakes his head) For I never saw true beauty till this night!” (Deva sighs.) He’s saying he’s never seen a girl as beautiful as Juliet! Blossom: Hmmm, in the opening scene, Romeo says he’s never seen a girl as beautiful as … what was her name? 4 Pronunciation Sentence stress Sentence stress is the accent we put on certain words . This makes the rhythm of spoken English. The stressed words carry the meaning of the sentence. P 2.8 7i6c37 2.9 96na6a 5 2.10 qf44u7 97 12 ninety-seven Nur zu Prüfzwecken – Eigentum des Verlags öbv