2018-09-18 Pronunciation: contrastive stress

Greg Malivuk
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http://www.pastebin.com/u/gmalivuk - notes from all classes
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Homework: p. 84 - Underline the focus in these conversations? (In conversations, you can identify which words give new information. Those words have focus.)
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p. 85 exercise 6 - With your partner, underline all the focus words in this announcement and practice saying the thought groups.
Remember: the last content word is the focus word unless
	- it’s repeating a word or information from earlier
	- another word in the thought group is contrasted with a word somewhere else
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Contrastive Stress
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“I have some bad news / and some good news.”
	(We’re contrasting “bad” and “good”, so those get stressed.)
p. 86 exercise 7 - Practice saying the sentences with your partner. Underline the words that contrast.
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p. 89 exercise 9 - Take turns saying these (incorrect) sentences and correcting your partner.
1 No, Shakespeare wrote Hamlet.
2 No, the Taj Mahal is in India.
3 No, psychology is the study of personality.
  No, ecology is the study of the environment.
4 No, the Mississippi is the longest river in North America.
  No, the Amazon is the longest river in the world.
5 No, H2O is the chemical symbol for water.
  No, CO2 is the chemical symbol for carbon dioxide.
6 No, the Pacific Ocean is to the west of the United States.
  No, the Atlantic Ocean is to the east of the United States.
7 No, Tokyo is the capital of Japan.
  No, Kyoto used to be the capital of Japan.
8 No, Monet was a famous French painter.