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Exercises - Intonation

This document contains: 1) A list of 32 sentences for students to examine intonation patterns, mark stresses, and read aloud. 2) A passage for students to read aloud focusing on intonation and weak forms. 3) The passage describes a "Forget-Me-Not" game where the teacher calls out words and students write the first thing that comes to mind, in order to analyze reactions and learn about people.

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Exercises - Intonation

This document contains: 1) A list of 32 sentences for students to examine intonation patterns, mark stresses, and read aloud. 2) A passage for students to read aloud focusing on intonation and weak forms. 3) The passage describes a "Forget-Me-Not" game where the teacher calls out words and students write the first thing that comes to mind, in order to analyze reactions and learn about people.

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IV.

Examine the sentences below and think about the possible intonation pattern for each
one of them and weak pronunciation forms. Then mark the sentence stresses. After that,
read each sentence aloud. Finally, your teacher will read the sentences aloud too so that
you can compare your pronunciation with his.

1. There's a cat under the table.


2. Who are you waiting for?
3. Have you seen Arthur?
4. How long has he lived in Middleford?
5. Let's have a party on Friday.
6. Is Bruce going to ring Mary up?
7. No, he's telephoning another girl.
8. What's Mr. Steele putting on?
9. Can you tell me the time?
10. You mustn't smoke in class.
11. Arthur, come into my office.
12. Do you speak English?
13. What can I do for you?
14. May I help you?
15. Whose house does Arthur live in?
16. I've just come back from England.
17. We're going to visit Jenny, Mary and Sheila.
18. Would you like to go to the cinema or to the theater?
19. Did you feed the chickens?
20. How often does Mary go to a restaurant?
21. What's the matter with you?
22. Don't miss class.
23. You study English, don't you?
24. You can't smoke in class, can you?
25. Will he come tomorrow?
26. You have nothing cheaper?
27. May I ring the bell?
28. You're married, aren't you?
29. My English students don't watch TV, do they?
30. What time did you call?
31. We speak Spanish in Venezuela, don't we?
32. John, are you listening to me?

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V. Read the following passage aloud. Please concentrate on its intonation and weak
pronunciation forms.

There's a little game I want us to play that I used to play at school. It's
called Forget-Me-Not. I'm going to call out some words -just anything at
all and as I say each word, you’re all to put down the first thing that
comes to your mind. Is that clear? For instance, if I should say "grass,"
you might write “it's green,” or anything else you think of. Or if I call out
“bridge,” you might put down “a card game.” It's an interesting game
because it shows the reactions of people to different things and tells you a
lot about the people themselves. You see how simple and easy it is?

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