Listening & Speaking: The Tonic

Practice shifting the Tonic:

1. My wife doesn't smell like a crate of durians, yours does.
2. My wife doesn't smell like a crate of durians, my dog does.
3. My wife doesn't smell like a crate of durians, she did.
4. My wife doesn't smell like a crate of durians, she looks like one.
5. My wife doesn't smell like a crate of durians, she smells for one everytime she is depressed.
6. My wife doesn't smell like a crate of durians, she smells like ten.
7. My wife doesn't smell like a crate of durians, she smells like a truckful.
8. My wife doesn't smell like a crate of durians, she smells like a crate of chikus.
   

Continue shifting the tonic, and think of your own endings:

1. I don't look like Brad Pitt, …
2. I don't look like Brad Pitt, …
3. I don't look like Brad Pitt, I ____ like him.
4. I don't look like Brad Pitt, …
5. I don't look like Brad Pitt, …
6. I don't look like Brad Pitt, …

Practice shifting the Tonic:
1. Greenviewans shouldn’t vandalise white school walls, Siglapians should.
2. Greenviewans shouldn’t vandalise white school walls, but they do anyway.
3. Greenviewans shouldn’t vandalise white school walls, they should obliterate them.

Continue shifting the tonic, and think of your own endings:
1. Greenviewans shouldn’t vandalise white school walls, they should vandalise _____ school walls.
2. Greenviewans shouldn’t vandalise white school walls, …
3. Greenviewans shouldn’t vandalise white school walls, …