英语语音基础 1. Who are you? 2. Who am I? 3. What do you have to be ready with? 4. How to...

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Five Five QuestionsQuestions

What is good English pronunciation?

Why is good pronunciation so important?

What impede or help the acquisition of a good pronunciation?

What are the priorities for Chinese learners?

What are the tips on good English pronunciation?

1 What is good English pronunciation?

to develop a clear, understandable pronunciation with appropriate intonation and stress

A lofty goal

A modest, realistic goal

sound like native speakers

2 Why is good pronunciation so important?

is being understood by a listener in a given situation

Intelligibility

is the most sensible goal.

Poor, unintelligible speech will make your attempts at conversing frustrating and unpleasant both for yourself and for your listeners.

Intelligibility

3 What impede or enhance the acquisition of a reasonable pronunciation?

The learner’s native language

The learner’s age

The learner’s exposureThe learner’s innate phonetic ability

The learner’s attitude and motivation

The learner’s speech habit

4 What are the priorities for Chinese learners?

weak forms

word stresssentence stress

intonationrhythm

Priority aspects for Chinese learners

5 What are the tips on good English pronunciation?

Be aware of the major differences between Chinese and English pronunciations

Be aware of the special features of English that are most difficult for the Chinese learners

5.2-5.8

5.1


Chinese is a tone language while English is a highly stressed language.

Apart from the vowel qualities and consonant qualities, stresses play a very important role in conveying the meaning of a sentence in English.

Example:

The girl gave the money to her father.

5.1


Example:

coming letter beautiful

report myself forget

remember explosion modernization

5.2 Word Stress


Example:

1. Janet has gone to the Baker’s.2. I saw your brother yesterday.3. Would you like a glass of beer?4. I must be going. My wife’s waiting for me at the corner of the street.

5.3 Sentence stress

In a normal English sentence, certain words are stressed and certain words are unstressed. Normally stressed are content words. Normally unstressed are form words.


Example:

5.4 Stress patterns

1. Sing a song.

2. I’d love to.

3. I’ve heard of it.

4. I want to know.

5. She asked me to go.

6. I think it will be fine.


Example:

Go home

Going home

Going back home

Going straight back home

5.5 Stress timed language


Example:

A cup of tea John’s at home.

A glass of water I can speak English.

A block of flats I’d like some potatoes.

The book that I want I’ve been to France.

Bread and butter We were leaving the house.

5.6 Weak forms


Function 1: It indicates grammatical meaning, in much the same way as punctuation does in the written language.

5.7 Intonation

Example:

• He lives in London.

• He lives in London.

3. He lives in London. Where?

4. He lives in London. Where?


5.7 Intonation

Function 2: It can also indicate the speaker’s attitude.

Example:

• Really?

• What’s your name?


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5.8 Four basic tone movements

Example:

1. His name is Peter. (a straightforward statement)2. His name is Peter. (a polite question)3. His name is Peter. (I don’t believe you.)4. His name is Peter. (to convey certainty)

Unit 1

How to pronounce:

Further practice:

Unit 2

How to pronounce

Further practice:

3.Phonetic knowledge

Unit 3

How to pronounce:

Practice

Practice:

Exercise 1 :

Exercise 2 :

Phonetice Knowledge:

1、一般疑问句的语调

续：

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