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
Be able to correctly
pronounce the words you
would like to speak and have
excellent spoken grammar.
Marilyn vos Savant
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
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
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.
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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.
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.
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
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
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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.
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.
When do we use falling intonation
and rising intonation?
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
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FA
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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.
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?