ENGLISH LANGUAGE S.S.S2 SECOND TERM

WEEK NINE

THEME: SPEECH WORK

RISING TONE

PERFORMANCE OBJECTIVE

Students should be able to;

1. Point out where there should be rising tune

CONTENT

What is Rising Intonation?

First things first: what do we mean by rising intonation?

Rising intonation describes when our pitch rises from the stressed syllable of the last content word of the sentence and continues to climb.

Depending on the context and the emotion or attitude you’re trying to convey with your tone, rising intonation may start earlier in the sentence and then climb to the end.

This type of intonation signals that we need clarification or confirmation from the person we’re interacting with.

First, let’s start looking at some yes/no questions..... View More