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Friday 1 November 2013

Stress and Intonation in English

Why do we take so long to understand stress and intonation in English?

Children learn stress and intonation very quickly, but what happens with ESL?

Today's post will try to answer these two questions above.

Let's practise English through listening, phonics, stress and intonation.

Here're some useful Stress and Intonation activities about Greetings. (handout, audio)

Numbers are  for Basic 1, aren't they? But, are they so simple in terms of stress? Definitely they are not. So, let's study some different ways of stressing numbers depending on the context. (handout, audio)

YouTube videos on Stress and Intonation.

I hope you find Intonation interesting. Please, feel free to leave any comments about Stress and Intonation below.