Exercise 1-7: Individual Practice Practice saying the sentences after the suggestion and the beep tone. You will be given only a short time in which to reply so that you won't have the leisure to overthink. Start speaking as soon as you hear the tone...
Exercise 1-6: Pitch and Meaning Change Practice saying the four sentences after me. Pay close attention to the changes in pitch that you must make to convey the different meanings intended. The words to be stressed are indicated in bold face. 1. It s...
Exercise 1-4: Sentence Intonation Test Pause the CD and underline or highlight the words that you think should be stressed. Check Answer Key, beginning on page 193 1. Sam sees Bill. 11. He sees him. 2. She wants one. 12. Mary wants a car. 3. Betty li...
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 1-3: Noun and Pronoun Intonation In the first column, stress the nouns. In the second column, stress the verb. Fill in your own examples at the bottom. 填写你自己的例子 ......1...... Bob sees Betty. He sees her. ......2...... Betty k...
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 into...
Exercise 1-2 noun intonation Practice the noun stress pattern after me, using pitch change. Add your own examples of the end. Add your own examples. ......1...... Dogs eat bones. ......2...... Mike likes bikes. ......3...... Elsa wants a book. .........
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...
Exercise 1-1: Rubber Band Practice with Nonsense Syllables Take a rubber band and hold it with your two thumbs. Every time you want to stress a word by changing pitch, pull on the rubber band. Stretch it out gently, don't jerk it sharply. Make a loop...
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...