Teach English in Qianpai Zhen - Maoming Shi

Pronunciation is divided up into stress, rhythm, and intonation Intonation is the variation in volume and pitch in sentences. It carries the message of the sentence. A rise and fall intonation indicates that the speaker is done speaking. Fall and rise indicates they are not speaking, or a surprise/disagreement, or that they want a response. A flat intonation is normally short and indicates the speaker doesn't have much to say or doesn't want to communicate. To teach this, we can use nonsense words, gestures, singing, or marks on the board. Stress in the place were the intonation begins to fall and gives the implication of the speaker. Only one word has one stress and syllables are stressed, not letters. There are usually more unstressed words than stressed. English speakers sometimes join sounds of words together in linking, sound dropping, sound changing, or extra lettering. Pronunciation of a word can often be different from how it is spelled. That is why we have the pronunciation alphabet. In the roman alphabet, one letter can have many sounds. In the phonetic alphabet each letter only has one sound. It is concerned with sounds over spelling. It has pure vowels and long vowels and dipthongs. Articulation can be divided up into different categories. Plosive sounds have a sudden release of air, fricative have friction in the mouth for vibration and goes front to back. Nasal the air escapes from the nose and lateral has the tip of the tongue against the mouth and the air escapes on both sides. Affricate has a build up of air, but the release is gradual. Approximate is the tongue is in approximately in the middle of your mouth. The movement of the mouth can be bilabial, labio-dental, dental, alveoler, palatal-alveolar, palatal, velar, and gluttal. These all have to do with where the sound comes from in your mouth and how it is formed.