Listening
UNIT 7 Being aware of stress, rhythm and intonation
How do intonation and word stress
help us to understand?
Pre-listening
Public speakers and lecturers make use of stress, rhythm
and intonation patterns, along with signpost words, to
divide their information into 'chunks' of meaning. Learning
to recognise these speech patterns will help you to
understand formal spoken English whether you are
listening to a live or a recorded talk.
Try saying the following telephone numbers. Notice how your voice goes up after
each group and then drops as you come to the end of the whole number.
5849
3714 *612 9983 4721 *01223 460278 *33 76 49 52 98 *0412 613612
Speakers normally use an upward intonation if they have more to add and let their
voice drop when they come to the end of that piece of information.
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