The ppt is about how to read aloud using correct pronunciation, pauses and stress.

1. LOUD READING Leena Jadhav

2. Read the following paragraph aloud. I was asleep on the beach dreaming of fields of green grass. My feet were in the sea, and a sheet of my niece’s magazine, which I was reading when I began to feel sleepy, was between me and the evening sun. Suddenly some people cried, ‘ Stop, thief! Help! Police!’ There were three machines for sweets and ice-cream a few feet from my piece of beach, and it seems that the shop-keeper who had the keys to the machines was cleaning them when a team of thieves tried to steal these keys. But the people in the street easily stopped them.

3. Reading technique Don’t try to read the sentence in one breath Pronounce punctuation – take pauses at commas and full stops. Break the sentence into breath groups or sense groups.

4. Read the following sentence I was asleep on the beach dreaming of fields of green grass.

5. Break the sentence I was asleep / on the beach / dreaming of fields / of green grass.//

6. Stress important words Words that are important in meaning are stressed e.g. nouns, adjectives, adverbs and main verbs are stressed. Pronouns, helping verbs, conjunctions, prepositions, articles are not stressed.

7. Stress words I was a sleep / on the beach / dream ing of fields / of green grass.//