Exercise 1 -44: Building an Intonation Sentence Repeat after me the sentences listed in the following groups. 1 I bought a sandwich. 2 I said I bought a sandwich. 3 I said I think I bought a sandwich. 4 I said I really think I bought a sandwich. 5 I
Exercise 1-47: Regular Transitions of Adjectives and Verbs A different change occurs when you go from an adjective or a noun to a verb. The stress stays in the same place, but the -mate in an adjective is completely reduced [-m't], whereas in a verb,
Exercise 1-48: Regular Transitions of Adjectives and Verbs Mark the intonation or indicate the long vowel on the italicized word, depending which part of speech it is. Pause the CD and mark the proper syllables. See Answer Key, beginning on page 193.
Exercise 1-53: Read aloud from the right-hand column. The intonation is marked for you. To today tonight tomorrow to work to school to the store We have to go now. He went to work They hope to find it. I can't wait to find out. We don't know what to
Exercise 1-54: Intonation and Pronunciation of That That is a special case because it serves three different grammatical functions. The relative pronoun and the conjunction are reducible. The demonstrative pronoun cannot be reduced to a schwa sound.
Exercise 1-55: Crossing Out Reduced Sounds Pause the CD and cross out any sound that is not clearly pronounced, including to, for, and, that, than, the, a, the soft , and unstressed syllables that do not have strong vowel sounds. Exercise 1-56: Readi
Exercise 1-57: Phrasing Repeat after me. Dogs eat bones. Dogs eat bones, but cats eat fish, or As we all know, dogs eat bones. Dogs eat bones, kibbles, and meat. Do dogs eat bones? Do dogs eat bones?!! Dogs eat bones, don't they? Dogs eat bones, DON'
Exercise 1-58: Creating Word Groups Break the paragraph into natural word groups. Mark every place where you think a pause is needed with a slash. Pause the CD to do your marking. Exercise 1-59: Practicing Word Groups When I read the paragraph this t
Two-Word Phrases Descriptive Phrases Nouns are heavier than adjectives; they carry the weight of the new information. An adjective and a noun combination is called a descriptive phrase, and in the absence of contrast or other secondary changes, the s
第一章 练习41 Exercise 1-41:Supporting Words Exercise 1-41: Supporting Words For this next part of the intonation of grammatical elements, each sentence has a few extra words to help you get the meaning. Keep the same strong intonation that yo
Statement Versus Question Intonation You may have learned at some point that questions have a rising intonation. They do, but usually a question will step upward until the very end, where it takes one quick little downward step. A question rises a li
Exercise 1-29: Making Set Phrases Pause the CD and add a noun to each word as indicated by the picture. Check Answer Key, beginning on page 193. Exercise 1-30: Set Phrase Story The Little Match Girl The following story contains only set phrases, as o
Word Groups and Phrasing Pauses for Related Thoughts, Ideas, or for Breathing By now you've begun developing a strong intonation, with clear peaks and reduced valleys, so you're ready for the next step. You may find yourself reading the paragraph in
Statement Intonation with Pronouns When you replace the nouns with pronouns i e old information, stress the verb. They eat them. As we have seen, nouns are new information; pronouns are old information. In a nutshell, these are the two basic intonati
Reduced Sounds The Down Side of Intonation Reduced sounds are all those extra sounds created by an absence of lip, tongue, jaw, and throat movement. They are a principal function of intonation and are truly indicative of the American sound. Exercise
The Miracle Technique Regaining Long-Lost Listening Skills The trouble with starting accent training after you know a great deal of English is that you know a great deal about English. You have a lot of preconceptions and, unfortunately, misconceptio
Staircase Intonation So what is intonation in American English? What do Americans do? We go up and down staircases. We start high and end low. Every time we want to stress a word or an idea, we just start a new staircase. That sounds simple enough, b
Syllable Stress Syllable Count Intonation Patterns In spoken English, if you stress the wrong syllable, you can totally lose the meaning of a word: MA-sheen is hardly recognizable as ma-SHEEN or machine. At this point, we won't be concerned with why
Chapter 1 American Intonation The American Speech Music What to Do with Your Mouth to Sound American One of the main differences between the way an American talks and the way the rest of the world talks is that we don't really move our lips. (So, whe
Chapter 2 Word Connections As mentioned in the previous chapter, in American English, words are not pronounced one by one. Usually, the end of one word attaches to the beginning of the next word. This is also true for initials, numbers, and spelling.
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