Weak Forms Esl
Weak forms are syllable sounds that become unstressed in connected speech and are often then pronounced as a schwa.
Example
In the sentence below the first 'do' is a weak form and thesecond is stressed.
What do you want to do this evening?
In the classroom
Structural words, such as prepositions, conjunctions, auxiliaries and articles are often pronounced in their weak form,since they do not carry the main content, and are therefore not normally stressed. Learners can find them difficult to hear and this interferes with understanding. Counting the number of words in asentence, or sentence dictations can help raise awareness of weak forms.
Intonation
Intonation is the way the pitch of a speaker's voice goes up or down as they speak. Intonation can be rising, fallingor flat and is used to communicate how a speaker feels.
Example
An English language speaker uses a rising intonation in spoken discourse to show that they haven't finished a sentence. The intonationcommonly drops at the end of a sentence to show they have finished.
RISING INTONATION- IS ANSWERABLE BY YES OR NO
1.Do you think his funny? no
2.Is your father handsome? yes
3.Can you sing?yes
4.Is this your school? yes
5.Do you eat Adobo? no
FALLING INTONATION- IS A SENTENCE, A QUESTION THAT IS NOT ANSWERABLE BY YES OR NO, But it is answerable by a sentence or a statement.1.What is the brand of your pencil?
2What is your Sister's name?
3.What are the 4 fundamental operations?
4.My sister is hard working.
5.What's your name?
ESL Student Blog: Website or EmailAddress - How to Read It
What’s your email address? Your school’s website?
Halfway through spelling the letters of an address, many students start drawing figures in the air with their index fingertrying to show the @ or _ characters used in it.
This is how to pronounce the following characters:
@ pronounced at
. pronounced dot
myname@hotmail.com is read
myname at hotmail dot com...
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