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    This document discusses listening and speaking skills related to gossip and emphasis. It covers recognizing stress patterns to identify emphasized information, using idioms related to secrets and gossip, and employing emphatic forms like cleft sentences, "do" sentences, and words like "all" or "what" to add emphasis or show contrast when speaking. Participants engage in exercises practicing these skills by highlighting stressed words, correcting sample sentences, and using emphatic forms in their own sentences.

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    This document discusses listening and speaking skills related to gossip and emphasis. It covers recognizing stress patterns to identify emphasized information, using idioms related to secrets and gossip, and employing emphatic forms like cleft sentences, "do" sentences, and words like "all" or "what" to add emphasis or show contrast when speaking. Participants engage in exercises practicing these skills by highlighting stressed words, correcting sample sentences, and using emphatic forms in their own sentences.

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    Listening Skills: Listening To Gossip & Emphatic Language

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    Lurline Terry
    This document discusses listening and speaking skills related to gossip and emphasis. It covers recognizing stress patterns to identify emphasized information, using idioms related to secrets and gossip, and employing emphatic forms like cleft sentences, "do" sentences, and words like "all" or "what" to add emphasis or show contrast when speaking. Participants engage in exercises practicing these skills by highlighting stressed words, correcting sample sentences, and using emphatic forms in their own sentences.

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    Listening to Gossip

    & Using Emphatic Forms


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    L O V E LY N
    Skills covered
    • Listening  Recognizing sentence stress for emphasis

    • Speaking  Using emphatic forms

    • Vocabulary  Idioms for Secrets & Gossip


    The Game
    • Spilling the beans – idiom
    Listening Strategy
    • Stress

    • Content Words

    • Function Words
    Contrastive Stress
    Which piece of info is emphasized each time?
    Which piece of info is emphasized each time?
    Practice
    Highlighted words each time…
    Comprehension
    Comprehension
    Idioms: Gossip/Secrets
    Idioms: Gossip/Secret
    Idioms
    Invent 4 sentences your partners can correct.
    Contrastive Stress
    Stress for Emphasis
    More Emphatic Forms
    • 1) Cleft Sentences

    • 2)

    • 3)
    “Do” to make sentences more emphatic or
    show a contrast.
    “Do” to make sentences more emphatic or
    show a contrast.
    “all” or “what” for emphasis
    More emphasis...
    More emphasis…

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