Objective
Students will be able to change the pitch of their voice, stress particular words, and pause after particular words to alter the meaning of a sentence.
Materials
a copy of worksheet for each student (teacher made) ;
Procedure
The teacher will pass out worksheet to each student, and put students into groups of two. The students will take turns reading the given sentence. The sentence must be read in 3 ways:
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1. to make a statement
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2. to ask a question
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3. show strong feeling
The students will achieve this by changing the pitch of their voice. After this particular exercise the teacher will ask a student from each group to give a demonstration of what they did in the group.
In the next exercise the students will look at a list of sentences. Teacher will instruct the students to stress the underlined word in each sentence, to give the sentence a different meaning.
In the third exercise the teacher will instruct students to read the next sentences and pause at each / mark to give meaning to each sentence. The student must explain the meaning of the sentence they just read. Students should take turns with their partner.
In the last exercise, the teacher will instruct students to read the given sentences in four different ways.
