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Questions can be constructed in more than one way. Take your English to the next level, join me in this lesson plan to help you distinguish between the different types. Classes are done via skype, paid via Paypal or bank transfer (where available), lessons are 1 hour long and I am a fully qualified TEFL Native English teacher.
Intonation
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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...