Intonation & Expressing Meaning

All levels40 minIELTS Test PreparationLesson 4 of 8 · Outline

Aims

Goal: use rising and falling intonation to carry meaning and attitude, so your answers never sound flat or memorised.

The lesson, stage by stage

  1. Warm up5 min

    Warm-up: The melody that means things

    2 warm-up questions

  1. Reading10 min

    Reading: The Melody of Speech

    Read a 249-word text about The Melody of Speech

  2. Vocabulary8 min

    Vocabulary: Expressing Attitudes Through Voice

    6 items

  3. Practice7 min

    Practice: Intonation Awareness

    Error-correction exercise, 5 items

  4. Discussion10 min

    Discussion: Your intonation mission

    3 discussion questions

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Target vocabulary

In a Tuton account these words become your student's vocabulary deck, so they come back in practice between lessons.

enthusiasticuncertainsurprisedthoughtfulconfidentemphatic

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