1. Grouping Words If We Could Talk with the Animals …         Do animals communicate? | In a famous children’s story, | Dr. Dolittle |  is able to talk to| —and understand—animals. | This has long been a dream of many people—to be able to communicate with animals and know what they’re thinking. For almost as long, scientists have wondered if animals actually have language. It seems clear to anyone who has a dog or cat or who closely observes animals that there is certainly communication going on. But how do animals communicate? What do they “say”? And is it truly language?

2. Stress Now, use the same printout, mark the stressed syllable that you hear. The first sentence has been done for you. If We Could Talk with the Animals … ′Do animals com′municate? | In a′famous children’s story, | ′Dr.′Dolittle | is able to′talk to| —and under′stand—animals. | This has long been a dream of many people—to be able to communicate with animals and know what they’re thinking. For almost as long, scientists have wondered if animals actually have language. It seems clear to anyone who has a dog or cat or who closely observes animals that there is certainly communication going on. But how do animals communicate? What do they “say”? And is it truly language?

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(Source: Unit 7, Interactions 2: Reading, 4^th Ed. ,by Pamela Hartmann & Elaine Kirn, 2002, New York: The MacGraw-Hill Companies, Inc.)

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