ENGLISH LANGUAGE S.S.S1 THIRD TERM

WEEK ONE

THEME: SPEECH

INTONATION PATTERNS

PERFORMANCE OBJECTIVE

Students should be able to;

1. Identify intonation patterns
2. Explain the patterns of intonation

CONTENT

What is intonation?

Intonation and stress are closely linked. In fact, it's impossible to dissociate them. They go hand in hand.

Intonation is about how we say things, rather than what we say, the way the voice rises and falls when speaking, in other words, the music of the language.

Just as words have stressed syllables, sentences have regular patterns of stressed words. In addition, the voice tends to rise, fall or remain flat depending on the meaning or feeling we want to convey (surprise, anger, interest, boredom, gratitude, etc.). Intonation, therefore, indicates the mood of the.... View More