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The document provides information and exercises about intonation patterns in English. It discusses the functions of falling intonation, rising intonation, and mixed intonation. Examples are given of statements, questions, emotions, and speech acts that utilize each intonation pattern.
Practice these dialogues using the 5 basic rules of intonation: falling, rising, choice, list, double-rise . Also, pay attention to the personality and emotion portrayed by your pitch.
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In this lesson I provide rising and falling intonation exercises and examples to demonstrate the various functions of intonation or inflection
Intonation worksheets are educational tools designed to enhance students’ understanding and use of intonation in spoken language. Intonation refers to the variation in pitch when speaking, which can change the meaning of words and sentences.
-Listen to the examples and decide which pattern is used in the answers. • English Intonation uses three PATTERNS: FALL \, RISE /, & FALL-RISE \/. • PATTERNS can show a speaker’s attitude to their words.
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Step 1 – Review the following patterns with the students. What did you do last weekend? Did you go anywhere special? When the weather is nice, I play tennis. Remind students that yes-no questions have rising intonation. Wh- questions usually have falling intonation, as do simple sentences.
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Basic types of intonation are rising, falling and mid-level. These sentences will perfectly illustrate what intonation is appropriate for questions, enumeration etc. I use this worksheet to teach my students how the meaning of the sentence change according to stress patterns.
