Pronunciation and Speaking

WELCOME!!!

Instructor:Melissa Smith

Class Time:Tuesday3-6 pm

Our goals: Work on these vowels: /au/ (/aw/ pg. 67 in

your book) /ər/ pg. 75

Learn about thought groups and intonation

Work on these consonants: /l/, /r/ (pg. 178-190)

Prepare for next week’s presentations!

The Vowels of North American EnglishIPA Exp. IPA Exp. IPA Exp.

/i/ green /ɛr/ purple /u/ blue/I/ pink /ʊ/ soot/e/ gray /ʌ/ rust /o/ gold/ɛ/ red /ə/ aqua* /ɔ/ mauve/æ/

black /ɑ/ aqua

/ai/

white /ɔi/ oyster /au/

brown

Phoneme Focus:/au/ “house” (/aw/ in the book)

How do we make it? http://www.uiowa.edu/~acadtech/phonetics/english/english.html

Word Pairs! (p. 67) Listen and repeat

Test yourself!

Listen and show the word you hear or

Practice with your partner

Vocabulary

(E) Stress and Linking in Phrasal Verbs

Phoneme Focus: /ər/ “word”

How do we make it? http://www.uiowa.edu/~acadtech/phonetics/english/english.html

Word Pairs! (p. 67) Listen and repeat

Test yourself!

Listen and show the word you hear or

Practice with your partner

Vocabulary

Tag Questions (I DISAGREE!!!)

Conversation Practice

Phoneme Focus:/l / “light, fall”

How do we make it?

Word Pairs! (p. 160) Listen and repeat

Test yourself!

Listen and show the word you hear or

Practice with your partner

Quiz: Night owl or early bird?

Phoneme Focus:/r / “right”

How do we make it?

Word Pairs! (p. 183) Listen and repeat

Test yourself!

Listen and show the word you hear or

Practice with your partner

F. Discussion

Thought Groups

In English, we split up all of our sentences into Thought Groups

Small chunks of information

Why? Easier to digest as a listener

Easier to convey as a speaker

Breathing breaks for speakers!

Thought Groups A couple more things…

Rule 8-4 Exercise 6, 1-4

Rule 8-5Exercise 7, group1- 1, group 2-2, group 3- 3

Rule 8-6Exercise 9, 1-7

Rule 8-7Exercise 10, group1- 1,2, group 2-2,3, group 3- 4,5

Exercise 11 (time permitting)

Break!

Take 10 minutes.

When you come back we will talk more about intonation, and then you will work on thought groups and intonation with your .

Intonation and Thought Groups

What is the difference in meaning in these sentences:

-Keiko doesn't like her job. -Keiko doesn't like her job? -Keiko doesn't like her job

Intonation and Thought Groups

How does intonation change the meaning in these two sentences?

-Who does Keiko work for? -Who does Keiko work for?

Listening 2, page 124

Intonation and Thought Groups

Rules 9-1 and 9-2

Look at Exercise 1

-pick one sentence and make it into a dialogue

-Practice using falling and rising intonation

Intonation can change the meaning

Keiko doesn’t like her job. (statement)

Keiko doesn’t like her job? (surprise, question)

Keiko doesn’t like her job… (incomplete sentence) interfering with her studies

Practice IntonationExercise 1

Pick one sentence and make it into a story or dialogue

Break the dialogue up into thought groups

Identify a focus word for each thought group

Use intonation to indicate meaning

Practice your story or dialogue with a partner

Rising and Falling intonation

Review Rule 9-4 and Rule 9-5

Are clarification questions rising or falling? (ex.)The number is 555-9435

555-9435? (clarify the 4th number)

Right, 555-9435.

Exercise 3, pg. 129, part a and part bMix these up! Clarification, yes/no, questions you know the answers to.

Practice with a partner. Give an appropriate response.

Presentation Practice

With your partner, take about 15 minutes to brainstorm a potential topic you want to focus on

What interests you?

Which prompt looks the most interesting?

When you have both decided on a topic, start discussing how you would present it

Come up with a mini presentation

Fill out the worksheet (also available in your book on page 149 and 150)

Homework…

Make sure you focus on everything for your final presentation!

Consonant and Vowel Sounds

Syllables (Are you saying the right number? Endings?)

Stress

Unstressed syllables/rhythm

Thought Groups

Intonation

Good luck! I can’t wait to hear your presentations next week!