Practising intonation

Date: 2015-10-07; view: 426.

Prastising stress.

V. Practicing stress and intonation

There are two kinds of stress that are important in achieving good pronunciation.—word-level stress; phrase-level stress.

Three ways of showing the stress pattern:

Use gestures. Clapping hands or using arm movements

Use the voice. raise the voice to indicate stress.

Use the blackboard. Underlining them or writing them with coloured chalks

In this point, we would introduce the simplest way, only with gestures. The teacher may do any of the followings to indicate the stress patterns.

1)Thump the air when saying the stressed syllable.

"Good 'morning!"

2)Make a downward stroke(划)of the hand-marking the "beat" like orchestra ['o:kistr ] conductor. e.g

Would you like to be a good student?

Of 'course I would.

3) punch the palm of his other hand

4)clap his hands. e.g. im'portant

5)bang his hand against something, such as desk or the blackboard.

The most successful technique for teaching intonation is imitation or mimicry. However, the use of gestures can reinforce this mimicry, that is, when the utterance requires a falling intonation, better results are sometimes achieved if the teacher raise a hand and lists it falls in imitation of the change in voice pitch.

Linear(划线) intonation marking is a memorial device in itself. Since it shows visually when a rise or fall of the voice is required.