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  • Our introduction was quite flat, wasn't it?

  • Damn, it wasn't great.

  • Real act intonation.

  • Exactly.

  • And some of your students may also have difficulty with intonation, which makes them sound rude, foretell or interested.

  • So you need to help him help with intonation, especially when you're doing things like grammar or functional language that you're speaking.

  • You can mix in a little bit of intonation throughout your lesson on and have fun with intonation.

  • You can, for example, use humming dialogues over home.

  • Huh?

  • You could also give students one sentence and get them to say it in lots of different ways to highlight different emotions.

  • What you doing?

  • Surprised?

  • What are you doing?

  • Annoyed.

  • Angry?

  • Yeah, Mariya, what are you doing?

  • Finally, you can extend this idea to create role plays, getting students to write mini dialogs on, then have them annotate this dialogue with emotions and practice the intonation.

  • To be or not to be.

  • That is the question.

  • Do I also like to include activities?

  • The highlight in practice contrasted.

  • It's really good because that allows students to correct wrong information that's been set to them or highlight key word sentence.

  • Fun games with this.

  • Like correct me.

  • Marios bought a dog yesterday.

  • Marry a bought a frog?

  • Yes, marry.

  • I bought a dog yesterday.

  • Maria bought a dog yesterday.

  • Marios border dog yesterday marry Oh Stoller Dog?

  • Yes.

  • Berio bought a dog yesterday.

  • While it's not a good idea to get deeply into the theory of intonation with students, you can teach them some general rules and raise their awareness of these features.

  • For example, what happens with wh word questions that I believe they go down?

  • Is it the same for yes, No questions.

  • They go up.

  • Which question tags.

  • When you're confirming information, you already know use falling intonation, don't you?

  • Down.

  • That's correct.

  • On with lists.

  • OK, Sean, read the list.

  • Okay, so I bought an apple, a banana, a cat and a dog.

  • Very good.

  • Finally.

  • Do not be afraid to be dramatic with intonation over the top.

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