Intonation Exercises
W. Stannard-Allen, Living English Speech
Not many useful teaching books have been published for the teaching of rhythm, intonation and stress-timing. One of my favourite books for this purpose is W. Stannard-Allen, Living English Speech (published by Longman, 1954). It has been out of print for many years. Whenever I use this book, students ask me for photocopies of the material ! Since it is unobtainable elsewhere, I have scanned a few pages of exercises below. (Apologies to any copyright owners. If it comes back into publication I'll happily direct inquirers to the commercial product). Note that the print image is old, so the scans are of poor quality. Enlarge them to full size.
W. Stannard-Allen, Living English Speech, page 5
W. Stannard-Allen, Living English Speech, pages 6-7
W. Stannard-Allen, Living English Speech, pages 8-9
W. Stannard-Allen, Living English Speech, pages 10-11
W. Stannard-Allen, Living English Speech, pages 12-13
W. Stannard-Allen, Living English Speech, pages 14-15
W. Stannard-Allen, Living English Speech, pages 16-17
W. Stannard-Allen, Living English Speech, pages 18-19
W. Stannard-Allen, Living English Speech, pages 20-21
W. Stannard-Allen, Living English Speech, pages 22-23
"Living English Speech links " Thor May 2007