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Mastering Vowel Sounds and Intonation for Effective Communication

This lesson focuses on enhancing listening skills and understanding vowel sounds while preparing for a quiz. Students will engage in activities such as writing words in IPA, practicing syllable counting, and identifying stress patterns in compound words. Emphasis will be placed on intonation in questions, differentiating between WH questions and Yes/No questions. Interactive games will reinforce learning concepts, including vowel sound recognition. By the end of the lesson, students will gain confidence in their speaking skills and grasp of English pronunciation.

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Mastering Vowel Sounds and Intonation for Effective Communication

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  1. Lesson 5: More Vowel Sounds Take out the ‘Oral Presentations Listening Ditto’ for Chen’s Haiku Presentation Study for Quiz

  2. Last Haiku Presentation • Chen Now, please give me your listening dittos.

  3. 5 Minutes to Study for Quiz Review: -counting syllables -word stress for compound words -prefixes/suffixes that do or do not get stress -when a word has a noun & a verb form, what are the rules for stress? -rules for emphatic/contrastive stress -rules for content/function word stress

  4. Quiz • When you are finished, try to write the following words in IPA in your notebook: Ex. Sun  /s^n/ • Mop • Onion • Stop 4. Pup 5. Tough Which of these shows emphatic stress & which of these shows contrastive stress? • -Which sentence shows the speaker thinks the test was very, very difficult. • 1a. That TEST was DIFFICULT. • 1b. That TEST was DIFFICULT. • -Which sentence shows that the speaker is trying to say he came to the party and not some other place? • 2a. He came to the PARTY yesterday. • 2b. He came to the party YESTERDAY.

  5. Question Intonation • Should the pitch of your voice always rise at the end of a sentence when you ask a question? NO!!! • There are 2 types of questions: • WH (who, what, where, when, why, how) • Ex. What are you doing? • Yes/No • Ex. Did you do your homework? (Answer can be yes/no) VOICE FALLS AT THE END VOICE RISES AT THE END

  6. Answers • Here are some answers to questions about me. Can you say the questions with the correct intonation? Gravy Fries Read Books Teach English to Speakers of Other Languages Lucas, Stinky & Sophie Yes, I watch a lot.

  7. Question Intonation Practice • Ask your classmates questions! • Use the correct intonation. • Wh ?s = FALLING • Yes/No ?s = RISING

  8. Please be back in your seat by 12:25

  9. /i/ vs. /I/ • Try saying these: /i/ /I/ sheep ship feet fit wheat wit leap lip feast fit cheap chip bean bin deep dip heap hip

  10. Go Fish! • Each person gets cards • Try to get two of the same words • If you have two of the same words put them down • The goal is to get rid of all the cards • Get a match by asking, “Do you have….” • If someone asks you for a card and you don’t have it, say “Go Fish” • If you do have the card they ask for, give it to them • You can ask for one card per turn

  11. /æ/ /E/ “ash” man /mæn/ men /mEn/

  12. /æ/ v. /E/

  13. Slap Game -Form 2 teams -When you see the words, slap the table of the word that has the /E/ sound -The first person to slap the correct table gets 1 point -The team with the most points wins!

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