INTONATION

ENGLISH LANGUAGE SS2 SECOND TERM

WEEK EIGHT

THEME: SPEECH WORK

INTONATION

PERFORMANCE OBJECTIVE

Students should be able to;

1. Act out a dialogue to the examples given

CONTENT

Intonation describes how the voice rises and falls in speech. The three main patterns of intonation in English are: falling intonation, rising intonation and fall-rise intonation.

Falling intonation

Falling intonation describes how the voice falls on the final stressed syllable of a phrase or a group of words. A falling intonation is very common in wh-questions.

 

• Where’s the nearest p↘ost-office?
• What time does the film f↘inish?

 

We also use falling intonation when we say something definite, or when we want to be very clear about something:

 

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