Drills on Intonation and Stress

1. STRESS AND INTONATION
Drills and Exercise

2. Hello
 To your boss
 To your best friend
 To a very cute girl/ guy you are
attracted to
 To a baby

3. Hum what’s next
I love your
mother’s
cooking.

4. Hum what’s next
I love your mother’s cooking.
I love your mother’s
cooking.
I love your mother’s
cooking.
I love
your mother’s cooking.

5. What does this mean?
I love your mother’s
cooking.
-Personally. Someone else
does not love the cooking.

6. What does this mean?
I love your mother’s
cooking.
-Emphasis of natural meaning.

7. What does this mean?
I love your mother’s
cooking.
-A particular mother. I don’t, for
example, like his mother’s
cooking.

8. What does this mean?
I love
your mother’s cookin
g.
-Particular family member. I
don’t, for example, like
your father’s cooking.

9. What does this mean?
I love your
mother’s cooking.
-Aspect of mother you love. I,
for example, hate your mother
but love her cooking.

10. MURDEROUSNESS

11. Murderousness
I didn’t say
we should kill
him.

12. What does this mean?
I didn’t say we should
kill him.
= Someone else said we should
kill him.

13. What does this mean?
I didn’t say we should
kill him.
= I am denying saying it.

14. What does this mean?
I didn’t say we should
kill him.
= I implied it / whispered it /
wrote it down.

15. What does this mean?
I didn’t say we should
kill him.
= I said someone else should
kill him /you should kill him, etc.

16. What does this mean?
I didn’t say we should
kill him.
= I said we shouldn’t kill him /
we must kill him, etc.

17. What does this mean?
I didn’t say we should
kill him.
= I said we should take him to
dinner /take care of him / send
him on a diving holiday.

18. What does this mean?
I didn’t say we should
kill him.
= We should kill someone else.