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INTONATION IN CONTEXT.

DAY 1: OPENING LESSON: VOWELS, CONSONANTS

I. VOWELS:

- Monothongs:

+ short vowels

+ long vowels:

+ semi- vowels:

- dipthongs:

Examples and Practice

II. Consonants

- 2 ways of classification:

+3 kinds of group.

- from the lips:

- from behind the teeth:

- from the throat:

+ 2 kinds of group

- voiced

- voiceless

Examples and Practice

III. Consonants cluster.

Examples and Practice


IV. Liaison

1. V +V

2. C+V: link together:

3. C+C:

- same group: blend them

- different group: pause a bit

Examples and Practice


DAY 2 HIGHLIGHTING IN CONVERSATION

I. Highlighting

a. Purpose

b. How to highlight

c. What to highlight

II. Word shifting

a. Meaning

b. Purpose

III. Liaison

T+Y/U : tʃ

D+Y/U: dʒ

S+Y/U: ʃ

Z+Y/U: ʒ

- Examples and Practice


DAY 3: TELLING AND REFERRING

I. Tones in english

1. Definition

a. What is tone?

b. What is intonation?

2. Kinds of tones

a. The fall

b. The rise

c. The fall - rise

3. Meaning of the tones

a. The fall

- Meaning

- How to use

- Examples

b. The rise

- Meaning

- How to use

- Examples

c. The fall-rise

- Meaning

- How to use
- Examples

II. Intonation with two or more phrases

- Declarative and questions

- Y/N questions

Examples and Practice

III. Break the sentence into small chunks

1. Meaning

2. How to use

3. What are conjuctions

- coordinating conjunctions:

- subordinating conjuctions:

Examples and Practice


DAY 4 REVISION AND PRACTICE

I. Liaisons

- examples and practice

II. Falling and rising tone

- examples and practice

III. Tongue twister

- examples

IV. Highlight/ word shifting


- examples and practice

V. Small chunks in a sentence

- examples and practice


DAY 5

ROLES AND STATUS OF SPEAKER

LOW KEY INFORMATION

UNSTRESSED WORDS

I. Roles and status of speaker

a. Kinds of roles

b. How to recognize

Examples and Practice

II. Low key information

a. Definition

b. Uses

Examples and Practice

III. Unstressed word in the sentence

a. Meaning

b. What are they?

c. How to say

Examples and practice


DAY 6: CONTRASTS AND REVISION

I. High key

II. Contrasts

III. Kinds of contrasts

IV. Key words

Examples and practice

V. Revision

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