Speaking clearly. Improving voice and articulation: Фонетический практикум. Фомиченко Л.Г. - 39 стр.

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di phthong, adjacent nasals and fricatives (or affricates),or even purely
subjective influences.
      Talk to him / aptitude / practical / amplify / factual / (an)
empty one / magnify / (it was) sent to him / envelope / (a) book to
read / octopus / photograph/ wait a bit !/ show me one!/ that’s enough
/ educate / afterwards / (some) cake to eat / thank them, please!/
(he) picked them all / (it) must be true / (you) ought to know.
      Exercise 4.
      Chapter ′one / Doctor ′Brown / up-to-′date / let me ′help /
it’s a ′shame / (he) stepped a ′side / (he) asked the ′way / (he)
stopped to ′ask / what’s the ′time?/ what’s it ′for?/ ask them ′now /
after ′all / ginger ′beer / (it’s) up to ′you / (you) can’t come ′in /
after′noon / eightpence ′each / up the ′street / take them ′all / put
them ′down / (it) must be ′true / (you) ought to ′know.

                     REGULARITY OF STRESS
       Note. The examples given earlier of sentences containing many
stressed words and others containing only few stressed words show that
the apparent speed of utterance is largely dictated by the number of
stressed syllables. The fewer the stresses, the more rapidly the voice
ski ps over the intervening unstressed syllables. If we read any piece of
prose at random so that we have a fair sample of mixed stressing, we
find that the overall effect of this is to create the impression that
stressed syllables occur at fairly regular intervals. When two or three
come close together, the speed of utterance is noticeably slower; when
they are separated by several unstressed syllables, these syllables flow
along more rapidly. The stressed syllables themselves move along at a
much more regular speed. The following exercise has a gradually in-
creasing number of unstressed syllables between the stresses. As their
number increases, it may be necessary to slow down the speed of the
stresses slightly, but care should be taken to read each new group at
least three times in a steady and deliberate rhythm that is based on the
stressed syllables. To facilitate reading, these stress-peaks will be printed
in bold type.
      You came to see him.
      You should come in order to meet him.
      You should have come before it got so late.
      We bought a book. We have bought another book. We could have
bought you another book. We ought to have bought ourselves another
book.