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The Novel 2
A unique lesson plan that has been designed to take you away from conventional teaching and place you into a story where you play the part of a character. The objectives of this class are to be able to initiate a conversation, develop confidence in out of context scenarios and focus on voice tones particularly when making requests. A challenging lesson plan that will put your grammar skills to the test!
Conversation Class About Your Job
Learn how to introduce yourself to others, explain where you work and what job you do. This class is audio supported in MP4 format so you can practice your pronunciation and provides both website and video links. If you want to learn how to express yourself in English, contact us today.....
Intonation
What is Intonation? Most students have difficulties understanding this subject, as it is hard enough learning set words and phrases. Intonation is a level of voice tone that is applied to the way in which we pronounce words and phrases. It's not just the meaning of words that necessarily matter, but the way in which we say them. look at the following scenario: David; " Hi Christina, how are you? I haven't seen you in ages!". Christina: " Fine thanks, yes its been too long, what have you been up to?". David wants to display empathy and generate a response, so he would demonstrate this by raising the pitch of his voice on the words hi, the phrase how are you and the word ages. This has been done so that those words carry emotion. Without this increase in tone, the very meaning of the sentence could be different. This is an important factor for anyone who is learning English as a second language because we use this technique in both social and busine...
Step into the limelight
Academy not working for you? Do you want to increase your English conversational skills, contact me today to find out how...