Speaking clearly. Improving voice and articulation: Фонетический практикум. Фомиченко Л.Г. - 82 стр.

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      A pause is a rest stop — a period of silence. A phrase is a group of
related words expressing a thought or «sense» unit or an idea. Phrases
are set off from each other with pauses. …

      Read the following sentences. Pause wherever you see double
vertical lines.
       a) If you think nobody cares if you’re alive // try missing a
           couple of car payments.
       b) Know what it is to be a child // it is to turn pumpkins into
           coaches, mice into horses, and nothing into everything.
       c) You get your cat and you call him Thomas or George //
           Then one morning you wake up // and find six kittens in a
           hat-box // and you have to reopen the whole matter.
       d) The atomic bomb in the hands of a Francis of Assisi would
           be less harmful than a pistol in the hand of a thug // what
           makes the bomb dangerous is not the energy it contains //
           but the person who uses it.
       e) That old bromide about truck drivers leading you to the good
           eats was cooked up in the same kettle as the wild tales about
           toads causing warts, and goats eating tin cans // Don’t
           believe it // Follow the truckers and you’ll wind up at truck
           stops.

     Read these twice. The first time, ignore the pause marks. The
second time, pause where indicated.
     a) When Ann had eaten / / the dog ran away.
     b) Hank, her date / / said Bob / / was quite boring.
     c) Kevin / / said the president / / is ignorant.
     d) That that is / / is.
     Without the pauses, they’re confusing. (Ann ate the dog? Who’s
boring, who’s ignorant? That that what?)

      Again read these twice, without pauses and with pauses. There’s a
vast difference.
       a) We shall fight on the beaches / / we shall fight on the
           landing grounds / / we shall fight in the fields and in the
           streets / / we shall fight in the hills / / we shall never
           surrender. [Winston Churchill]
       b) To become great, what does an actor need most of all / /
           Physical beauty? Not essential / / Great physique? Unim-