Intonation Review
TFM Elena Del Ama
Review activities
Intonation activity
The Goose that Laid the Golden Eggs by Aesop
This audio recording is from the site LibriVox where you can listen to hundreds of audiobooks recorded by volunteers. The text of the fable is from the book Aesop's Fables, Pan Books, 1975.
After listening to the audio, indicate the intonation (rising or falling intonation) for the underlined words in the text:
A Man and his Wife had the good fortune to possess a Goose which laid a Golden Egg every day.
Lucky though they were, they soon began to think they were not getting rich fast enough, and,
imagining the bird must be made of gold inside, they decided to kill it in order to secure the whole
store of precious metal at once. But when they cut it open they found it was just like any other goose.
Thus, they neither got rich all at once, as they had hoped, nor enjoyed any longer the daily addition to their wealth.
INTONATION ACTIVITY SOLUTION
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Intonation speaking practice
Work with a partner. Create two sets of sentences, each must contain three sentences: one must be a declarative sentence, another an interrogative sentence and the third must be an imperative sentence. After creating them, analyse how intonation changes for each sentence type (declarative, interrogative and imperative). Finally, read them aloud, paying attention to how you pronounce them.
Example:
Sentence: I cleaned my room
Declarative sentence: I cleaned my room / I didn’t clean my room
Interrogative sentence: Did you clean your room?
Imperative sentence: Clean your room!
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