Dangerous Liaisons

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Fonetica y Fonología III
Prof. Claudio Jofré -2012


Read the following text and :

i) Assign the characters to the script
Mme de Mertuil & Valmont


iii) Look up thepronunciation of unfamiliar words

iv) Listen to this scene soundtrack and compare it with your marking.
____________________________________________________________________________Dangerous Liaisons (A film scene script)


(1)I often wonder how you managed to invent yourself.


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(2)I had no choice, did l?I'm a woman.

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(3)Women are obliged to be far more skillful than men.

____________________________________________________(4)You can ruin our reputation and our life with a few well-


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(5)chosen words. So, of course, I had to invent notonly myself...


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(6)...but ways of escape no one has ever thought of before.____________________________________________________


(7)And I've succeeded because... ...l've always known I was born to


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(8) dominate your sex and avenge my own.____________________________________________________


(9) Yes, but what I ask was, how?

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(10) When I came out intosociety I was 15.

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(11) I already knew that the role I was condemned to...

____________________________________________________(12) ...namely, to keep quiet and do what I was told...

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(13)...gave me the perfect opportunity to listen and observe....