1. What, pitch levels are generally distinguished? 2. What is a pitch range? What pitch ranges are called normal, wide, narrow? 3. Enumerate and define the pitch-and-stress sections of an intonation pattern. 4. What is the nucleus? What types of nuclear tones do you know? Define each of the eight nuclei. 5. What section of the intonation pattern is called ‘the Head’? How are the heads grouped in English? 6. Why is it necessary to differentiate the four types of descending heads? 7. What is the main difference between the falling, stepping and scandent heads? 8. What kind of head is called sliding? What is its emphatic variant? 9. What is meant by ‘The broken descending head’ ? 10. Think of the examples with the broken descending heads. What tone mark is used for this head type? 11. What types of heads are called ascending? 12. What is the difference between the Rising Head and the Climbing Head? 13. Write on the blackboard the tone-and-stress marks used in the text for ascending heads. Illustrate them with your own examples. 14. What heads are called level? 15. Describe each type of level heads. 16. What is a pre-head? What types of pre-head are generally distinguished? What tone-and-stress marks are used for the pre-heads in the text?

1. They haven't done anything. Have they done anything?
2. He hasn't given them any money. Has he given them any money?
3. You haven't brought anything for us. Have you brought anything for us?
4. I haven't taken any English books from you. Have I taken any English books from you?
5. She wasn't reading anything. Was she reading anything?
6. He hasn't written a letter to anybody. Has he written a letter to anybody?
7. Nobody by the name of Petrov lives on the third floor. Does anybody by the name of Petrov live on the third floor?
8. They don't have any English books. Do they have any English books?
9. There aren't any tall trees in front of their house. Are there any tall trees in front of their house?
10. Peter doesn't have anything in his box. Does Peter have anything in his box?
11. There aren't any parks in his town. Are there any parks in his town?
12. There aren't any good bookshops in our district. Are there any good bookshops in our district?

1.) As a young woman, Mercédès is kind of one-dimensional character. She's beautiful, exotic, and faithful. She has a kind heart. She's happy for Edmond when he returns and she cries for him when he's taken away. She tolerates Fernand, despite his threatening demeanor, and lets him know that she's willing to sacrifice her life if he should try to hurt Edmond. What more could you ask for in a woman? Well, maybe a little more character development. But then we meet older Mercédès, Fernand's wife. What's the deal with her? How could she have abandoned Edmond? He was only gone for like, fourteen years right? What an ungrateful…wait, what's that? FOURTEEN YEARS? OK, sure, she married a big jerk, but on the plus side she raised a pretty cool, if cocky, son. She's one of the first characters to recognize Monte Cristo as Edmond; she accepts her fate and leaves quickly after Fernand is exposed, and she's suitably chastened by the experience. So, looking at all that you'd think she might deserve a break, right? Heck, she even has to send her only son away to war. Mercédès ends up being her own harshest critic: "You did have faith," she tells Edmond, "you had strength, you trusted in God, and God sustained you. I was a coward, I denied Him, so God abandoned me; and here I am!" (112.105). This is the last we hear of Mercédès. The Count moves on, finds love with Haydée, and rides off into the sunset. Meanwhile, Mercédès left to live in the old Dantès apartment in Marseille, left to cry herself to sleep, just as she was left to cry when Edmond was taken away to prison. Unwilling to "hope" and "wait" – the two things the Count tells Valentine and Maximillian they must do – she suffers as a result. But, really, hasn't she suffered enough? Is this punishment really called for?