Stress & Intonation

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UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL DE CHIMBORAZO. FACUTAD DE CIENCIAS DE LA EDUCACION HUMANAS Y TECNOLOGIAS. CARRERA DE IDIOMAS. PRESENTATION ABOUT: Teaching Pronunciation: STRESS AND INTONATION Integrants: Granda Zoila, González Francisco, Lechon Marjory, León Karla, Merino Yesenia Course: Fifth Semester Languages September 2014 to January 2015

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Pronunciation is the act of speaking clearly and correctly and being understood by those around the speaker. The ultimate goal of language teaching is to encourage learners to acquire communicative competence so pronunciation instructions should be approached holistically not phonetically it means that the teacher has to teach pronunciation as an integral part of oral communication

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UNIVERSIDAD NACIONAL DE CHIMBORAZO.FACUTAD DE CIENCIAS DE LA EDUCACION HUMANAS Y TECNOLOGIAS.

CARRERA DE IDIOMAS.

PRESENTATION ABOUT:

Teaching Pronunciation:

STRESS AND INTONATION

Integrants:

Granda Zoila, González Francisco, Lechon Marjory, León Karla, Merino Yesenia

Course:

Fifth Semester Languages

September 2014 to January 2015

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Be able to correctly

pronounce the words you

would like to speak and have

excellent spoken grammar.

Marilyn vos Savant

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Pronunciation is the act of speaking clearly and correctly and

being understood by those around the speaker.

The ultimate goal of language teaching is to encourage learners

to acquire communicative competence so pronunciation

instructions should be approached holistically not phonetically it

means that the teacher has to teach pronunciation as an integral

part of oral communication

PRONUNCIATION

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STRESS

Stress plays an important role in learning the English language.

Certainly if the learner is not able to use a good stress they

won’t be understood and communication will be broken.

English is called a stress-timed language

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STRESS

Content words contrast with

function words, which function

primarily to express the grammatical

relationships between other words

in a sentence.

Are words that have little lexical meaning or have ambiguous meaning, but instead serve to express grammatical relationships with other words within a sentence, or specify the attitude or mood of the speaker.

CO

NTEN

T W

ORD

S

FU

NCTIO

N W

ORD

S

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CONTENT WORDS

The most important information such as verbs, adjectives, nouns and adverbs which are called CONTENT words.

NOUNS: Banana, Bed, Bird, Book, Cat, Clock, Cookie, Country, Dog, Eyes, Flowers, House, Light, Match, Movie, Ocean.

VERBS: allow, bake, bang, drop, hang, hug, imagine, jump, kick, end, escape, fast, fix, gather, grab, haze, damage.

ADJECTIVES: Bitter, Spicy, Bland, Minty, Sweet, big, tall, amazing, funny.

ADVERBS: Financially, Willfully, Abruptly, Endlessly, Firmly, Delightfully, Quickly, Lightly, Eternally, Delicately, Wearily, Sorrowfully, Beautifully, Truthfully.

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FUNCTION WORDSThese are important for the grammar to be correct but are not usually important to the main message. These words are not stressed to help us speak fluently with a natural rhythm

ARTICLES: Definitive: theIndefinite: a, an

CONJUNCTIONS: And, But, Or, Nor, For, Yet, So.

PREPOSITION: As, at, but, by, down, for, from, in, into, like, near, next, of, off, on, onto, out, over, past, plus, minus, since, than, to, up, with.

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Practice.

Which of the following

Jobs has the stress on the first syllable?

BIOLOGIST

PHOTOGRAPHER

PSYCHIATRIST

SECRETARY

Which word

sounds different

?

DEBT

FRET

TREAT

SWEAT

Which word

sounds different

?

MOTHER

BOTHER

BROTHER

ANOTHER

Which word

sounds different

?

HOT

KNOT

TAUGHT

WHAT

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Practice.

Which word does not

rhyme with the others?

THOUGHT

SEW

DUE

DO

Which word has the

correct stress in the British

English ?

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adVERtisement

adverTISEment

advertiseMENT

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INTONATION

Intonation is variation of spoken pitch that is not used to distinguish

words; instead it is used for a range of functions such as indicating the

attitudes and emotions of the speaker, signalling the difference between

statements and questions, and between different types of question,

focusing attention on important elements of the spoken message and also

helping to regulate conversational interaction.

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Although intonation is primarily a matter of pitch

variation, it is important to be aware that functions

attributed to intonation such as the expression of

attitudes and emotions, or highlighting aspects of

grammatical structure, almost always involve

concomitant variation in other prosodic features.

IMPORTANCE.

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When do we use falling intonation

and rising intonation?

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INTONATION

Is used in general questions, in introductory phrases, in the first part of alternative questions , in the second part of tag questions, in directaddress, and in enumerating items in a list.

Standard unemphaticfalling intonation is themost common type of intonation in English. It is used in statements, special questions,, and exclamatory sentences, in the first part of disjunctive questionsand in the last part of alternative questions.

RIS

ING

IN

TO

NAT

ION

FA

LL IN

TO

NAT

ION

.

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FALL INTONATION

(Indicates completeness)

END OF A LISTI bought some tomatoes, potatoes and LEMONS.

QUESTION TAG EXPENTING

Would you like to go for a /WALK or would you rather stay \HOME?

MOST WH QUESTIONS

Where do you \LIVE? What are you \READing?

INSTRUCTION

Close your books and \LISten. Open the \DOOR, please.

STATEMENTSWe live in \MOScow. She is ten years \OLD.

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RISE INTONATION

(Indicates Incompletenes)

QUESTIONS TAGS WHERE BOTH PARTS ARE AFFIRMATIVE

So you found it,did you?

QUESTIONS TAGS WHEN YO ARE UNSURE OF THE ANSWER.

It's a beautiful \town, \isn't it? She \knows him, /doesn't she?

YES/NO QUESTIONS

Are you ready to /START? Have you read this /BOOK?

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