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Exercise 5
[see screen and listen Jennifer] Did I read all
questions with the same intonation pattern? No. [see screen and listen Jennifer] If you need to
go back and listen to how I read those four questions. Now it’s your turn to practice intonation
patterns in questions. [see screen and listen
Jennifer].
Exercise 6
[see screen and listen Jennifer] I’ll give you a
moment to read the question on your own, and then I’ll read it to provide a
model. [see screen and listen Jennifer]. Now you always use falling intonation in your
answers unless you list items. If you list items, use rising intonation until
you get to the last item in your list. For example, yes, I do. I play the flute, clarinet and saxophone. [see screen and listen Jennifer]
Question 1
Again I’ll pause to
give you a chance to read the question on your own. Choose your answer and use
falling intonation.
[see screen and listen Jennifer]
At this point, I’d
like to share some helpful tips for more natural intonation. [see screen and listen Jennifer] so good falling intonation in your voice need to come down at higher
note. [see
screen and listen Jennifer] so for good rising
intonation, your voice needs to come up from a lower note. [see screen
and listen Jennifer] Let me demonstrate all
through example. [see screen and listen
Jennifer]
The
first sentence can be read as one thought group. Let’s mark that. We’re giving factual information making a
statement. So we use falling intonation. Our final content word is neighbors, stress
on the first syllable. Now, our voice
must go up before goes down. So it’ll rise on the stress syllable and then step
down to a lower pitch, neighbors. Now in the sentence we can’t start too low or else you won’t
hear the following intonation. If I start too low, it sounds like this. [see screen
and listen Jennifer] And now with that kind of intonation, not only
can you not really hear falling intonation, it actually sounds like I’m
bored. And if I start too high, it
sounds unnatural. [see screen and listen
Jennifer] So, you see I actually have to begin
our sentence at a mid pitch. [see screen and listen Jennifer] understand?
The
second sentence will also read as one thought group. What’s the final content word giving new
information? Musician / with stress on the middle syllable. Again our voice must go up before it goes
down. So we’ll rise on the stressed
syllable and then step down. There are
more unstressed words following so our voice will either continue to go down or
at least stay at that low pitch // until the end of statement. [see screen
and listen Jennifer]
Now at
the end of the question, we have a question. We’re asking a yes or no question,
so we’ll use rising intonation and what is the final content word? It’s
neighborhood, but is that the word received primary stress? I argued no,
because we’re going to contrast your neighborhood and my neighborhood. At first
I’m talking about my neighbors, now I want to know about your neighbors. So stress
is on your, so this is the point where our voice rises there must first be a
fall, drop in your voice. Without that drop, the rise is too sharp. Listen: [listen Jennifer]. It sounds
unnatural. So first there is a little bit of drop, we go up on your, and
because we have more unstressed syllables following, our voice will continue to
go up. So there is a bit of drop, and then we continue to go up up up into the
end of the question. [listen Jennifer] Listen to the entire example now. [see screen
and listen Jennifer]
INTERVIEW-2
Do
you perform? I do. I perform on flute mostly these days.
Who
do you perform for or who do you perform with?
I play with a group called Ensemble Robot and where I actually help to
build a Robot, and then I also sing in playing my instruments with Robots, too.
I
hope to make additional lessons on intonation because there’re more patterns to
present in practice. But that’s all for
now and I hope you found this lesson useful.
Thank you for watching and happy studies…!
- Robot보통 우리는 ‘로봇’ 이나 ‘로보트’
로 발음 하는데 실제 발음은 ‘로밧’입니다. Robert는 어떻게 발음 하시나요? 같은 원리로 발음 합니다. (첫번째 음절에 강세).
Don’t change word stress and use intonation as an assistant tool to make more natural rhythm and melody in your speech. 즉, 단어의 강세는 언제나 원칙대로 주면서 인토네이션을 이용해서 확실한 정보의 전달 (falling intonation) 인지 불확실한 정보의 전달 혹은 질문이나 동의를 구하는 청유형 질문 (rising intonation) 인지를 적절히 안배 합니다. 처음엔 쉽지 않으나 타인의 말을 유심히 들어보고 이해를 위한 노력을 하고, 또한 자신의 말에 이러한 강세와 인토네이션을 적절히 이용한다면 훨씬 더 부드럽고도 자연스러운 말하기 (speech) 영어를 구현 할수 있습니다.
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