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PART THREE of a lesson in THREE parts. Topic: Stress in phrases and sentences. Part C offers general practice with rhythm, helping learners begin to transfer oral reading skills to free speech.
Level: advanced.
The following exercises are for general practice.
They’re designed to help you to develop the sense of rhythm in the English language. Now, it maybe enough for you just to listen and repeat after me. But you might also find it helpful to clap along.
If you watched my pronunciation lesson 3 when I used the children’s rhyme to teach rhythm, I clapped along.
Do whatever helps you feel the rhythm, you can clap, you can snap, you can tap your feet. If it helps you to feel the rhythm, do it while you practice.
This is a long sentence, so what you might do is to break into thought groups and then practice reading the last thought group the one before that, and then the one before that.
Let’s practice doing that together. Here, three main thought groups. Now let’s read them in reverse order.
Now in this exercise, instead of breaking a long sentence into thought groups in going reverse order, we’re going to take a simple sentence in expanded. It will get fuller and fuller. I’m going to exaggerate the rhythm, so that you can clearly hear it. I’ll say each statement two times and then you’ll repeat after me. Let’s begin.
Let’s say that final sentence one last time, but trying looking away from the screen. Imagine you’re talking to one of your friends, and then simply you wanna say, All of his clients will get good haircuts. Does that sentence come out natural and smoothly? Good , let’s go on!
Our final exercise is more conversational in nature. It reminds you that there is the connection between oral reading and free speech.
All of that oral reading that we’ve been doing in previous exercises is eventually going to help you become more natural in conversation.
You start to transfer all of these rhythmic patterns into your own free speech.
And as a result, you’ll sound more natural.
That’s all for now! Thanks for watching and happy studies…!
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