1. Pronunciation and Speaking
Instructor:
Melissa Smith
Class Time:
Tuesday
3-6 pm
WELCOME!!!

2. Our goals: Work on these vowels: /au/ (/aw/ pg. 67 in your book)
/ər/ pg. 75
Learn about thought groups and intonation
Work on these consonants: /l/, /r/ (pg )
Prepare for next week’s presentations!

3. The Vowels of North American English
IPA
Exp.
/i/
green
/ɛr/
purple
/u/
blue
/I/
pink
/ʊ/
soot
/e/
gray
/ʌ/
rust
/o/
gold
/ɛ/
red
/ə/
aqua*
/ɔ/
mauve
/æ/
black
/ɑ/
aqua
/ai/
white
/ɔi/
oyster
/au/
brown

4. Phoneme Focus: /au/ “house” (/aw/ in the book)
How do we make it? ml
Word Pairs! (p. 67) Listen and repeat
Test yourself!
Listen and show the word you hear or
Practice with your partner
Vocabulary
(E) Stress and Linking in Phrasal Verbs

5. Phoneme Focus: /ər/ “word”
How do we make it? ml
Word Pairs! (p. 67) Listen and repeat
Test yourself!
Listen and show the word you hear or
Practice with your partner
Vocabulary
Tag Questions (I DISAGREE!!!)
Conversation Practice

6. Phoneme Focus: /l / “light, fall”
How do we make it?
Word Pairs! (p. 160) Listen and repeat
Test yourself!
Listen and show the word you hear or
Practice with your partner
Quiz: Night owl or early bird?

7. Phoneme Focus: /r / “right”
How do we make it?
Word Pairs! (p. 183) Listen and repeat
Test yourself!
Listen and show the word you hear or
Practice with your partner
F. Discussion

8. Thought Groups
In English, we split up all of our sentences into Thought Groups
Small chunks of information
Why?
Easier to digest as a listener
Easier to convey as a speaker
Breathing breaks for speakers!

9. Thought Groups A couple more things… Rule 8-4 Rule 8-5 Rule 8-6
Exercise 6, 1-4
Rule 8-5
Exercise 7, group1- 1, group 2-2, group 3- 3
Rule 8-6
Exercise 9, 1-7
Rule 8-7
Exercise 10, group1- 1,2, group 2-2,3, group 3- 4,5
Exercise 11 (time permitting)

10. Break!
Take 10 minutes.
When you come back we will talk more about intonation, and then you will work on thought groups and intonation with your .

11. Intonation and Thought Groups
What is the difference in meaning in these sentences:
-Keiko doesn't like her job.
-Keiko doesn't like her job?
-Keiko doesn't like her job

12. Intonation and Thought Groups
How does intonation change the meaning in these two sentences?
-Who does Keiko work for?
Listening 2, page 124

13. Intonation and Thought Groups
Rules 9-1 and 9-2
Look at Exercise 1
-pick one sentence and make it into a dialogue
-Practice using falling and rising intonation

14. Intonation can change the meaning
Keiko doesn’t like her job. (statement)
Keiko doesn’t like her job? (surprise, question)
Keiko doesn’t like her job… (incomplete sentence) interfering with her studies

15. Practice Intonation Exercise 1
Pick one sentence and make it into a story or dialogue
Break the dialogue up into thought groups
Identify a focus word for each thought group
Use intonation to indicate meaning
Practice your story or dialogue with a partner

16. Rising and Falling intonation
Review Rule 9-4 and Rule 9-5
Are clarification questions rising or falling? (ex.)
The number is
? (clarify the 4th number)
Right,
Exercise 3, pg. 129, part a and part b
Mix these up! Clarification, yes/no, questions you know the answers to.
Practice with a partner. Give an appropriate response.

17. Presentation Practice
With your partner, take about 15 minutes to brainstorm a potential topic you want to focus on
What interests you?
Which prompt looks the most interesting?
When you have both decided on a topic, start discussing how you would present it
Come up with a mini presentation
Fill out the worksheet (also available in your book on page 149 and 150)

18. Homework…
Make sure you focus on everything for your final presentation!
Consonant and Vowel Sounds
Syllables (Are you saying the right number? Endings?)
Stress
Unstressed syllables/rhythm
Thought Groups
Intonation
Good luck! I can’t wait to hear your presentations next week! 