A Fairy Song

Spring

Winter

William Shakespeare

When icicles hang by the wall
And Dick the shepherd blows his nail
And Tom bears logs into the hall,
And milk comes frozen home in pail,
When Blood is nipped and ways be foul,
Then nightly sings the staring owl,
Tu-who;
Tu-whit, tu-who: a merry note,
While greasy Joan doth keel the pot.
When all aloud the wind doth blow,
And coughing drowns the parson's saw,
And birds sit brooding in the snow,
And Marian's nose looks red and raw
When roasted crabs hiss in the bowl,
Then nightly sings the staring owl,
Tu-who;
Tu-whit, tu-who: a merry note,
While greasy Joan doth keel the pot.

William Shakespeare

When daisies pied, and violets blue,
And lady-smocks all silver-white,
And cuckoo-buds of yellow hue
Do paint the meadows with delight,
The cuckoo then, on every tree,
Mocks married men, for thus sings he:
'Cuckoo!
Cuckoo, cuckoo!' O word of fear,
Unpleasing to a married ear.
When shepherds pipe on oaten straws,
And merry larks are ploughmen's clocks,
When turtles tread, and rooks, and daws,
And maidens bleach their summer smocks,
The cuckoo then, on every tree,
Mocks married men, for thus sings he:
'Cuckoo!
Cuckoo, cuckoo!' O word of fear,
Unpleasing to a married ear.

William Shakespeare

Over hill, over dale,
Thorough bush, thorough brier,
Over park, over pale,
Thorough flood, thorough fire!
I do wander everywhere,
Swifter than the moon's sphere;
And I serve the Fairy Queen,
To dew her orbs upon the green;
The cowslips tall her pensioners be;
In their gold coats spots you see;
Those be rubies, fairy favours;
In those freckles live their savours;
I must go seek some dewdrops here,
And hang a pearl in every cowslip's ear.

Exercise 6. Train your intonation. Pronounce the words and word combinations in the quotation marks in the contexts that follow:

1) “Hello”

- to a friend

- to a neighbor you don’t like

- to a 6 months old baby

- to someone you have just found doing they shouldn’t

- to someone on the phone when you’re not sure if they are still on the other end.

2) “Goodbye”

- to a member of your family as they are going through the boarding gate at the airport

- to someone who has been annoying you

- to a child starting his very first day at school.

3) “How are you?”

- to someone you haven’t seen for twenty years

- to someone who has recently lost a member of the family

- to someone who didn’t sleep in their own bed last night

4) “I never go to pubs”

- by a person that totally disapproves of drinking alcohol to someone who often goes to pubs

- as a response to someone who has told you they sometimes go to pubs

- said before: “… but I quite like discos.”

5) “What have you done?”

- to someone who claims to have fixed your television only that now it’s worse than before

- to someone who is scolding you for doing anything when you suspect the same about them

- to someone who has just done something very bad and which has serious consequences.

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