Rising and falling tones

[Rachel Adams]

Hello.

I listened to this exercise and noticed a falling tone in each statement and a rising tone in negative statments. Is it the only difference the book might be asking about?

 

[Rachel Adams]

We can't hear what you heard, so we can't answer.

Well, I am not sure it is OK to ask teachers to download it in order to check the pronunciation but in case it is, please follow the link. It is in Files 5-6. It's the seventh audio file in the list. https://elt.oup.com/student/englishfile/elementary3/download?cc=global&selLanguage=en

 

[GoesStation]

The positive sentences will have relatively flat tonality. In the negative ones, the tone will rise with the second syllable and fall after that.

 

[jutfrank]

What the writer probably wants you to do is notice that in each case the word can is in a weak form (unstressed), and the word can't is in a strong form (stressed).