英语语音基础 1. Who are you? 2. Who am I? 3. What do you have to be ready with? 4. How to Improve Your English Pronunciation

Five Questions What is good English pronunciation? Why is good pronunciation so important? What impede or help the acquisition of a good pronunciation? What are the priorities for Chinese learners? What are the tips on good English pronunciation?

1 What is good English pronunciation? to develop a clear, understandable pronunciation with appropriate intonation and stress A lofty goal A modest, realistic goal sound like native speakers

2 Why is good pronunciation so important? is being understood by a listener in a given situation Intelligibility is the most sensible goal. Poor, unintelligible speech will make your attempts at conversing frustrating and unpleasant both for yourself and for your listeners. Intelligibility

3 What impede or enhance the acquisition of a reasonable pronunciation? The learner’s native language The learner’s age The learner’s exposure The learner’s innate phonetic ability The learner’s attitude and motivation The learner’s speech habit

4 What are the priorities for Chinese learners? weak forms word stress sentence stress intonation rhythm Priority aspects for Chinese learners

5 What are the tips on good English pronunciation? Be aware of the major differences between Chinese and English pronunciations Be aware of the special features of English that are most difficult for the Chinese learners

5 What are the tips on good English pronunciation? Chinese is a tone language while English is a highly stressed language. Apart from the vowel qualities and consonant qualities, stresses play a very important role in conveying the meaning of a sentence in English. Example: The girl gave the money to her father. 5.1

5 What are the tips on good English pronunciation? Example: coming letter beautiful report myself forget remember explosion modernization 5.2 Word Stress

5 What are the tips on good English pronunciation? Example: 1. Janet has gone to the Baker’s. 2. I saw your brother yesterday. 3. Would you like a glass of beer? 4. I must be going. My wife’s waiting for me at the corner of the street. 5.3 Sentence stress In a normal English sentence, certain words are stressed and certain words are unstressed. Normally stressed are content words. Normally unstressed are form words.

5 What are the tips on good English pronunciation? Example: 5.4 Stress patterns 1.Sing a song. 2. I’d love to. 3. I’ve heard of it. 4. I want to know. 5. She asked me to go. 6. I think it will be fine.

5 What are the tips on good English pronunciation? Example: Go home Going home Going back home Going straight back home 5.5 Stress timed language

5 What are the tips on good English pronunciation? Example: A cup of tea John’s at home. A glass of water I can speak English. A block of flats I’d like some potatoes. The book that I want I’ve been to France. Bread and butter We were leaving the house. 5.6 Weak forms

5 What are the tips on good English pronunciation? Function 1: It indicates grammatical meaning, in much the same way as punctuation does in the written language. 5.7 Intonation Example: He lives in London. 3.He lives in London. Where? 4. He lives in London. Where?

5 What are the tips on good English pronunciation? 5.7 Intonation Function 2: It can also indicate the speaker’s attitude. Example: Really? What’s your name?

5 What are the tips on good English pronunciation? Fall Rise Fall-rise Rise-fall 5.8 Four basic tone movements Example: 1. His name is Peter. (a straightforward statement) 2. His name is Peter. (a polite question) 3. His name is Peter. (I don’t believe you.) 4. His name is Peter. (to convey certainty)

Unit 1

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Unit 2

How to pronounce

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3.Phonetic knowledge

Unit 3

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Practice

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Phonetice Knowledge:

1 、一般疑问句的语调

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