English Pronunciation

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English Pronunciation Intonation for
Communication
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Introduction
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Course Aims

• To sharper ears
• To pronounce better
• phonemes words
• rhythmic patterns
• stress patterns

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• To help Ss to increase intelligibility, i.e.
  help Ss understand and be comfortably understood.

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Teaching Methods
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Learning strategies
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Assessment

• Class attendance 10
• Coursework
• Assignments 40
• Final exam 50
• Oral exam 30
• Written exam 20

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Unit 1 Basic Concepts
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Learning Objectives

• Rhythm
• Syllable
• Stress

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Basic Concepts

• ???!
• (nimen hao)
• Chinese is a tone language

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Basic Concepts

• ?Good 'morning! (Good MORN-ing)
• English is a rhythmic language

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Rhythm

• The timing pattern of successive syllables

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Syllable

• A syllable is a word part and the basic unit of
  English rhythm.

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Exercises (1)

• Count syllable numbers
• only
• ears
• the sounds of English
• exercises

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Exercises (2) P3

• Listening Number of Syllables

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Stress

• In words of more than one syllable, one of them
  will receive more stress than the others.

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Stress Stressed syllables

• Long syllables with clear vowel sounds
• ba'nana ? ba NA na
• banana ?
• (stress pattern)

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Exercises (3) P3

• Listening Stressed Syllables

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Stress Word Stress

• Three degree of stress
• newspaperman
• primary
• secondary
• zero

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• Compound words
• class room
• classroom
• CLASSroom

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Exercises (4) P4

• Listening Word Stress

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Stress A Full Vowel

• A vowel sound in a stressed syllable
• Its pronounced louder and longer than the vowel
  in an unstressed syllable.

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Exercises (5) P5

• SpeakingA Full Vowel

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Stress A Diphthong

• A diphthong is two vowel sounds pronounced one
  after the other within the same syllable.

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Exercises (6) P6

• Speaking--A Diphthong
• SpeakingStressed Syllables and Unstressed
  Syllables

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SummaryRhythm, syllables stress

• Rhythm refers to the timing pattern of
  successive syllables.
• A syllable is the basic unit of English rhythm.
• Strong beats are stress.

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Exercises (7) P9

• Listening for Information Imitation

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Assignments
P 4-5 Listening Stress Patterns, Listening
Stress in a Sentence, Task 1 P 6-7 Speaking
Words with Diphthongs, Speaking One Syllable to
the Next P 10-11 Listening For Information
Imitation (2), Pronunciation in Communication P
4, 6, 7, 8 Tasks 1, 2, 3, 4
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Qs for self-evaluation
(1) Definition Can you define rhythm,
syllable, stress, and stressed syllable in
your own words? (2) Comparison Can you make a
comparison between different degree of stress and
between different rhythmic patterns? (3)
Practice Can you imitate the typical stress
patterns and rhythmic patterns in English well?
(4) Problems difficulties Do you have any
problems or difficulties? If you do, what are
they? Have you solved the problems out? If you
have, how did you solve them?