Make 5 special and 5 general questions to the text.
Intonation
Intonation describes how the voice rises and falls in speech. The three main patterns of intonation in English are: falling intonation, rising intonation and fall-rise intonation.
Falling intonation describes how the voice falls on the final stressed syllable of a phrase or a group of words. A falling intonation is very common in wh-questions.
Where’s the nearest post-office?
We also use falling intonation when we say something definite, or when we want to be very clear about something:
I think we are completely lost.
Rising intonation describes how the voice rises at the end of a sentence. Rising intonation is common in yes-no questions:
I hear the Health Centre is expanding. So, is that the new doctor?
Fall-rise intonation describes how the voice falls and then rises. We use fall-rise intonation at the end of statements when we want to say that we are not sure, or when we may have more to add:
I don’t support any football team at the moment. (but I may change my mind in future).
It rained every day in the first week. (but things improved after that).
We use fall-rise intonation with questions, especially when we request information or invite somebody to do or to have something. The intonation pattern makes the questions sound more polite:
Is this your camera?
Source: http://dictionary.cambridge.org/ru
Basically, stress words are considered CONTENT WORDS such as
· Nouns e.g. kitchen, Peter
· (most) principal verbs e.g. visit, construct
· Adjectives e.g. beautiful, interesting
· Adverbs e.g. often, carefully
Non-stressed words are considered FUNCTION WORDS such as
· Determiners e.g. the, a, some, a few
· Auxiliary verbs e.g. don't, am, can, were
· Prepositions e.g. before, next to, opposite
· Conjunctions e.g. but, while, as
· Pronouns e.g. they, she, us
Read the following sentences with proper intonation and stress.
John is coming over tonight. We are going to work on our homework together.
Would you like to come over and play a game of chess?
As you might have expected, he has just thought of a new approach to the problem.
DESCRIBING CHARACTER, PEOPLE, PLACES
“I don’t believe in horoscopes. I’m Sagittarius and we are sceptical.”
Arthur C. Clarcke
Discuss the following questions with your partner.
People have different opinions about astrology, some people believe in it, other people think it’s all nonsense.
1. Do you believe in horoscope? If so, prove your opinion.
2. Do you ever check your horoscope?
3. Is it possible to predict future events just by someone’s star sign?
4. If horoscopes are true, we all follow one of twelve future paths. What do you think of this?
5. What kind of person is someone with your star sign?
| I was born in 1996. year He was born in September. month Lincoln was born on 12th December, 1809. date |
- When were you born?/ When is
your birthday?
- I was born on October, 7th 1952.
- So, you’re a Libra, aren’t you?
- Yes, right you are.