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What is the main purpose of using the right intonation or tone in English?
What is the main purpose of using the right intonation or tone in English?
- To sound more confident
- To sound more friendly and interested (correct)
- To sound more aggressive
- To sound more bored
What is the effect of stressing the right words in a sentence?
What is the effect of stressing the right words in a sentence?
- It helps you speak with a soft voice
- It helps you speak with a slow rhythm
- It helps you speak with a good rhythm (correct)
- It helps you speak with a loud voice
What is the result of combining intonation and stress in English?
What is the result of combining intonation and stress in English?
- The music and rhythm of English (correct)
- The speed and volume of English
- The tone and pitch of English
- The accent and pronunciation of English
What is Lionel Richie's response to the question 'What single thing would improve the quality of your life?'
What is Lionel Richie's response to the question 'What single thing would improve the quality of your life?'
Who would Lionel Richie invite to his dream dinner party?
Who would Lionel Richie invite to his dream dinner party?
What is the worst job Lionel Richie has ever had?
What is the worst job Lionel Richie has ever had?
What is Lionel Richie's favorite way to relax?
What is Lionel Richie's favorite way to relax?
What keeps Lionel Richie awake at night?
What keeps Lionel Richie awake at night?
What is the grammatical structure of the question 'What's the worst job you've ever had?'
What is the grammatical structure of the question 'What's the worst job you've ever had?'
What is the grammatical structure of the question 'If you could go back in time, where would you go?'
What is the grammatical structure of the question 'If you could go back in time, where would you go?'
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Study Notes
Conversation
- A conversation between two people, discussing their siblings and jobs
- One person's brother is a doctor, and the other person's sister is a journalist
- They discuss whether their siblings would get along, given their shy and quiet nature
Pronunciation and Intonation
- Practice listening and repeating conversations with a focus on intonation and rhythm
- Use rising intonation for echo questions (e.g. "You are?")
- Practice responding to sentences with an echo question and then stating whether you are the same or different
Grammar and Vocabulary
- Review of grammar and vocabulary for:
- Present perfect (simple and continuous)
- Illness and treatment
- Consonant and vowel sounds
- Adjective and related sentence structures
- Clauses of contrast and purpose
- Business and advertising
- Changing stress in nouns and verbs
- Relative clauses
- Prefixes
- Word stress
- Colloquial English
Q&A and Interviews
- Q&A format is used in publications to interview people in the news
- Personal questions are often asked, and the respondent must answer truthfully
Grammar Exercises
- Complete questions with one or two question words or an auxiliary verb
- Identify questions with auxiliary verbs, no auxiliary verbs, and those that end with a preposition
- Practice inverting subject + auxiliary verb order to make questions
Pronunciation Exercises
- Listen to questions and identify the one that sounds more friendly and interested
- Practice intonation, stress, and rhythm in questions to sound more friendly and interested when speaking English
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