Elp Stress Intonation

C. Use the right intonation to achieve the purpose or feeling indicated. Provide the appropriate stress in the words that are highlighted.

Sentence | Purpose/Feeling |

You want flowers. | State a fact. |

You want flowers? | Ask a question. |

Eric, your friend, gave me flowers. | Emphasize the giver. |

Eric, your friend, gave me flowers. | Emphasize the relationship of the giver to another person. |

Eric gave you flowers? | Turn a statement into a question. |

Eric gave me flowers! | Indicate excitement. |

Eric gave me flowers. | Indicate boredom or disappointment. |

D. With a partner, study how the poem below should be read dramatically. Observe the appropriate stress an intonation.

Misery

by Langston Hughes

Misery is when your

very best friend

calls you a name she really

didn’t mean to call you at all.

Misery is when you call

your very best friend a name

you didn’t mean to call her, either.

Task 4. Of Time and Place

From the words inside the box, choose the one that appropriately substitutes for the underlined words/expressions. Write your answers on a one fourth sheet of paper.

constantly

uniquely

abruptly

eventually

instantly

originally

constantly

uniquely

abruptly

eventually

instantly

originally

1. In the beginning there was no heaven or earth.

2. The breeze was forever cool.

3. After so many years, they got married.

4. Immediately after his return from the trip, he called this act to her attention.

5. The whole place suddenly became cold and desolate.

6. beyond

deepness

throughout

summit

adjacent

dwelling

beyond

deepness

throughout

summit

adjacent

dwelling

Then from the depth of this formless void, there appeared two gods.

7. Their abode was in the highest realm of the eternal space.

8. She sits down by a pool near their doorstep.

9. He was sailing across the regions of the clouds.

10. She...