Name: Can these English teachers fool you?
Uploaded: 2020-03-09T03:12:03.000Z
Duration: 5 min 9 s
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Does everyone watching know what April Fool’s Day is?

I can sum it up in a single line: it’s a day when people play silly jokes on one another.

And when people discover that it’s a joke, the joker can say, “April Fool’s!”

So five of us teachers have come together to see if we can fool you.

We’re each going to ask a true-false question.

Do I look like a person who can handle weapons?

Actually, I know how to use three types of weapons.

And that’s when I learned how to use a long staff, a short stick, and nunchucks.

A long staff, a short stick, and nunchucks.

A common pattern is to use rising intonation on all but the last item of a list, as in

We use falling intonation on the last item.

For more information and practice, please check out my lesson on intonation patterns

for stating lists and presenting alternatives.

I'm from the United States of America but do you know which state I currently live in?

Well, if you follow 'go Natural English' you probably know the answer.

I made one of the Go Natural videos in Missouri when I was visiting family.

But I am not from there and I don't currently live there.

But you can see the video I made and learn about how to use words stress correctly to

sound more like a natural English speaker.

I went to graduate school to study Linguistics.

I went to graduate school to study opera singing.

Check out this video I made about intonation in American English and how it can help you

I have a short clip of me singing opera in that video!

I’m British and this is my husband, Jay.

So watch our video on British and American pronunciation differences to learn more.

Actually I worked at a fish market for six summers when I was a teenager.

Did you notice the rhythm while I was speaking?

When we speak, we stress the words that are most important for people to understand.

The other words - usually little grammar words - they shrink, they get smaller, or link together.

If you're interested in this topic - so important for practicing English,