WEATHER REPORT: MALE MODEL
Speech key: (/) pause; (//) longer pause; ( _) stress; .. faster pace;
.. (average pace); .. (slower pace)
This is another model for your weather reports. First, it's a male voice, which may aid male students. Second, it's slower than the other models, showing that pace is not an absolute but only a relative value. This should be studied mainly for its strategic pauses (good use of pauses), its slower pace, it's basic coherence strategies (mostly the simple conjunction, "so"). Above is a key chart, which should be obvious. As usual, this stylistic analysis is not complete, but covers most of the significant differences in pace, vocal shadings, stress, etc. (I've ignored variations of vocal timbre, which I covered in a previous analysis.)
It's 36 in Boston, it's 31 in Worcester right now. / But as we open up the shot, We'll try to find some warm weather in the United States. There really isn't too much. Of course we will take the 74 out in Orlando and / perhaps the 92 and maybe it'll be too hot for you. But / perhaps it's better than / what // we're experiencing right now. 92 out in Phoenix. So the only place it's really warm is in the southwest. A good chunk of the country is really below average. And so our air is going to continue to come out of Canada. / So // there really is no change coming up. So the forecast for tonight, partly to mostly cloudy. Ah, the temperature will fall down in the upper 20s to near 30 degrees. So if it cleared out in some spots it could get down to twenty // because there will be radiation cooling with practically no wind. I'm not looking for any precipitation tonight // but there probably will be some breaking out tomorrow // and overnight. 26, / Chulmsford 25 with that light wind. And going up to 37 tomorrow. Same story in. Chulmsford: 36 degrees. // Looks like a mostly cloudy sky with a few scattered snow showers. // Most of the snow is likely to break out on Cape Cod and the islands // and maybe even a few flakes up in the south / shore, // possibly in Boston, but primarily down in here, // even though the temperature will be in the low to mid 30s, / it is cold enough in all levels of the atmosphere above us, / the whole column, / to create snow / as we're going to get sideswiped by a storm. Now // if it came down harder, and it's possible it could do so for a brief period of time, / then there will be some accumulation, at least the grassy surfaces will start to show white / and perhaps an inch or two. But that / is just about it. As / this storm continues to spin well we're waiting for another storm which is going to form over the ocean tomorrow. / Now // there is so much energy going into this storm that this is really going to really // expand and explode into a very intense storm. I'm not kidding you on this one. However it looks like it should be / steered just offshore to only give us // a little sideswiping or a little brush of snow. On Easter Sunday, // hopefully we'll start sunny. // This crop of low pressure will swing on through / and we may have some afternoon clouds and then we will see // perhaps a flake or two of snow, but mostly up in the mountains. Even the six to ten-day temperature outlook // is for this to continue below normal well into next week. Now / of course below average / this time of the year // it depends what kind of below average it is. It should be around 53, 55, / and / if it's not too far below it's not too bad. But, // you know what, // it's just, / we would like to have it better, right? And we're going to try to make it better as we get in the first part of next week for the home-opener in Fenway Park. // We're going to shoot for a 50 degrees, hopefully there's no curve balls there from Mother Nature to mess things up on us. / But // it looks like later in the week, // Wednesday night or Thursday, // we'll be watching the storm and it'll be either snow or rain. Right on the fence, right on the threshold, / whether it'll be rain here. I suspect it'll be more rain, // again, more snow in the mountains. You want to go skiing, snow boarding this weekend, / it's just an amazing, staggering, amounts of snow which fell in this storm.Speech key: (/) pause; (//) longer pause; ( _) stress; .. faster pace;
.. (average pace); .. (slower pace)
This is another model for your weather reports. First, it's a male voice, which may aid male students. Second, it's slower than the other models, showing that pace is not an absolute but only a relative value. This should be studied mainly for its strategic pauses (good use of pauses), its slower pace, it's basic coherence strategies (mostly the simple conjunction, "so"). Above is a key chart, which should be obvious. As usual, this stylistic analysis is not complete, but covers most of the significant differences in pace, vocal shadings, stress, etc. (I've ignored variations of vocal timbre, which I covered in a previous analysis.)
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