In today's lesson, we talked about intonation and how we convey meaning using word stress. The words in a sentence can stay the same, but if we change which word is stressed, we change the meaning. We stress words using pitch and vowel length.
Practice lengthening your stressed word:
I’m going to g - o- .
I w - a - n - t to.
I like the b - l - u - e one.
Where a - r - e you?
You can also use repeated phrase practice for intonation practice, as we typically stress the word we’re filling in:
For example,
I was _______, the word we fill in to the blank is stressed.
I was w a l k i n g,
I was l a t e.
I was h a p p y.
I was c a l l i n g.
Those ______.
Those p e o p l e, those s h o e s, those c a l l s, those g r o c e r i e s
Are you _____?
Are you s u r e? Are you c o m i n g? Are you t h e r e? Are you b u s y?
I’m going to g - o- .
I w - a - n - t to.
I like the b - l - u - e one.
Where a - r - e you?
You can also use repeated phrase practice for intonation practice, as we typically stress the word we’re filling in:
For example,
I was _______, the word we fill in to the blank is stressed.
I was w a l k i n g,
I was l a t e.
I was h a p p y.
I was c a l l i n g.
Those ______.
Those p e o p l e, those s h o e s, those c a l l s, those g r o c e r i e s
Are you _____?
Are you s u r e? Are you c o m i n g? Are you t h e r e? Are you b u s y?
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