DEMO-LEC ON LISTENING

Jean Alric B. Almira

BSED III - English
PRAYER AND ATTENDANCE
 ACTIVITY TIME

Listen to the recordings and note what you

have noticed.
RECORDS (LISTEN CAREFULLY!)

No. 1

No. 2

No. 3

No. 4

No. 5
________ IS THE RISE AND FALL
IN PITCH OF THE VOICE IN
SPEECH.
INTONATION
 OBJECTIVES

• The learners are expected to:

• Identify patterns of intonation;
• Distinguish between rising and falling intonation
when listening to a material;
• Apply the correct intonation in speaking and
reading phrases or sentences.
 STRESS

• – emphasis laid on specific syllables of a word or a specific

word in a sentence.
• There are two: Word stress and Sentence stress.
• Word stress: when a particular syllable is pronounced with
more emphasis in comparison with other syllables.
Example: Garden = Gar-den;
• Sentence stress: a particular word is given emphasis
compared to the rest of the sentence.
Example: It was awesome.
 INTONATION

• is the rise and fall in pitch of the voice in speech.

• It indicates the mood of the speaker.
• There are two basic patterns of intonation in
English: falling intonation and rising intonation,
there can also be a combination of the two, the
Rise-fall, and Fall-rise intonation.
 FALLING INTONATION

• (The pitch of the voice falls at the end of the

sentence.) is the most common intonation
pattern in English.
• It is commonly found in statements,
commands, wh-questions (information
questions), confirmatory question tags and
exclamations.
 FALLING INTONATION

• Examples:
• Nice to meet ↘you. (Statement)
• Write your name ↘here. (Command)
• What school do you come ↘from? (Wh-question)
• She is really a gifted student, isn’t ↘ she? (Questions Tags for confirmation)
• How nice of ↘ you! (Exclamations)
 RISING INTONATION

• Rising intonation (The pitch of the voice

rises at the end of a sentence.) invites the
speaker to continue talking.
• It is normally used with yes/no questions,
and question tags that are real questions.
 RISING INTONATION

Examples:
Yes/No Questions:
• Do you like your new ➚teacher?
• May I ask for some ➚ paper?
Question tags that requires answering:
• We've met already, ➚haven't we?
• You like joining quiz bees, ➚ don’t you?
 RISE-FALL INTONATION

• (The intonation rises and then

falls.) for choices, lists,
unfinished thoughts and
conditional sentences.
 RISE FALL INTONATION

Examples:
Choices:
• Is John leaving on ➚Thursday or ➘Friday?
Lists:
• We've got school supplies like ➚pencils, paper, pens and
➘erasers.
Unfinished thoughts (partial statements):
So you both live in Lucena? Well ➚Juan ➘does ... (but I don't).
 FALL-RISE INTONATION

• (The voice falls and rises usually within one word.)

shows that the speaker is not certain of the answer
they are giving to a question, or is reluctant to reply
(as opposed to a falling tone used when there is no
hesitation). It is also used in polite requests or
suggestions.
 FALL-RISE INTONATION

Examples:
Hesitation / Reluctance
• So you'd be willing to confirm that? ...Well ... I
➘sup➚pose so ..
Politeness – Doubt – Uncertainty (Unsure of what
answer will be)
• Should we ➘cop➚y his notes?
 GROUP ACTIVITY!

The class will be divided into two. Each group will be given 3-5
minutes to compose a brief 1-2-minute conversation, after
performing, each group will identify will identify what kind of
intonations were present in the conversation of the other group.
 QUIZ!!!

On a piece of paper, write whether the item has rising, falling or Rising-falling intonation.
Write R if it has rising intonation, F if falling, RF if Rise-Fall and F-R if Fall-Rise.

1. The exam result is expected at the end of the week.

2. Do you have any references?
3. Are you having soup or salad?
4. Should we copy the list?
5. You didn't see him on Monday? I don't quite remember ...
 ASSIGNMENT!

• For your assignment, create a video

with you reciting 10 sentences with
rising and falling intonation. There
must be five sentences for rising and
also five for falling.
 REFERENCES

• https://www.learn-english-today.com/pronunciation-
stress/intonation.html
THANK YOU AND GOD BLESS!