Intonation
Phonics · B2 · 7 printable sheets, each with an answer key.
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- Sheet 1 · 15 minIntonation: tone units and the tonic syllableDivide speech into tone units and find the tonic syllable, where the main pitch movement happens.Free
- Sheet 2 · 15 minIntonation: fall, rise and fall-riseChoose between a fall, a rise and a fall-rise, and understand the extra meaning a fall-rise adds.Premium
- Sheet 3 · 15 minIntonation: questions that ask, check or insistSee how the same kinds of question change meaning with a rise or a fall: asking, checking, agreeing or insisting.Premium
- Sheet 4 · 15 minIntonation: pitch range, attitude and feelingsUnderstand how a wide or narrow pitch range shows interest, boredom, surprise or irritation.Premium
- Sheet 5 · 15 minIntonation: contrastive stress and moving the tonicMove the tonic to correct, contrast and emphasize, and see how one sentence changes meaning.Premium
- Sheet 6 · 20 minIntonation review: viewing a flatReview tone units, fall-rise, question tags, lists and contrastive stress in a conversation about renting a flat.Premium
- Sheet 7 · 30 minIntonation: offers, requests and polite refusals at the dinner tableLearn how intonation makes offers, requests and refusals sound friendly at a Thanksgiving dinner: choose the tone for each sentence, check statements, match offers with polite replies, complete polite refusals and practice in a teacher-led drill and a dinner table role play.Premium