30-Day Accent Challenge, Day 16

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?