Application of Intonation CD 1 Track 22 录音下载
There is always at least one stressed word in a sentence and
frequently you can have quite a few if you are introducing a
lot of new information or if you want to contrast several things.
Look at the paragraph in Exercise 1-15. Take a pencil and mark
every word that you think should be stressed or sound stronger
than the words around it. I'd like you to make just an accent mark (') to indicate a word you think should sound stronger than others around
it. Reminder The three ways to change your voice for intonation are:
(1) Volume (speak louder), (2) Length (stretch out a word), and (3) Pitch (change your tone). * Pause the CD and work on the paragraph below.
Exercise 1 -15: Application of Stress Mark every word or syllable with ' where you think that the sound is stressed. Use the first sentence as your example. Check Answer Key,
beginning on page 193. Pause the CD.
Hello, my’ name is______________. I'm taking American Accent
Training. There's a lot to learn, but I hope to make it as enjoyable
as possible. I should pick up on the American intonation pattern
pretty easily, although the only way to get it is to practice
all of the time. I use the up and down, or peaks and valleys, intonation
more than I used to. I've been paying attention to pitch, too. It's like
walking down a staircase. I've been talking to a lot of Americans lately,
and they tell me that I'm easier to understand. Anyway, I could go on and
on, but the important thing is to listen well and sound good. Well, what
do you think? Do I?
V Listen and re-mark the stressed words with your marker. After you've
put in the accent marks where you think they belong, take one of the
colored translucent markers and as I read very slowly, mark the words
that I stress. I am going to exaggerate the words far more than you'd normally hear in a normal reading of the paragraph. You can mark
either the whole word or just the strong syllable, whichever you prefer,
so that you have a bright spot of color for where the stress should fall.
Note If you do the exercise only in pencil, your eye and mind will
tend to skip over the accent marks. The spots of color, however, will
register as "different" and thereby encourage your pitch change. This may strike you as unusual, but trust me, it works.
* Pause the CD and practice reading the paragraph out loud three times
on your own.
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