2018-03-27 Pronunciation: contrastive stress

Greg Malivuk
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http://www.pastebin.com/u/gmalivuk - notes from all classes
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Focus Words: the words with the strongest stress in each thought group
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p. 83 - Listen to the sentences in the box. Where does the pitch go up?
- The intonation goes up on the stressed syllable of the focus word (not always the first syllable).
exercise 4A - Put a circle over the syllable with primary stress, then practice saying the sentences.
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Contrastive stress to correct mistakes:
A: London is in Scotland.
B: No, London is in England.
or B: No, Edinburgh is in Scotland.
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p. 89 - Take turns reading the sentences to your partner and correcting their information (if you know the correct information). You can use the expressions on the bottom of p. 88.
All the sentences are wrong.
1 Actually, Shakespeare wrote Hamlet. / Actually, Dante wrote the Divine Comedy.
2 Actually, the Taj Mahal is in India.
3 Actually, ecology is the study of the environment. / Actually, psychology includes the study of...
4 I’m pretty sure the Amazon or the Nile is the longest river in the world. The Mississippi is the longest river in North America.
5 Actually, H2O is the chemical symbol for water. / … carbon dioxide.
6 Actually, the Atlantic is to the east of the United States. / The Pacific is to the west...
7 Actually, Tokyo is the capital of Japan. Kyoto used to be the capital.
8 I’m almost certain Monet was a French painter.