This document discusses stress and intonation through examples. It provides drills on saying different phrases with varying intonations to convey different meanings. For the phrase "I love your mother's cooking", it gives examples of intonations that indicate the speaker means it personally, emphasizes the natural meaning, refers to a particular mother or family member, or loves a specific aspect of the mother. It then does similar exercises for the phrase "I didn't say we should kill him", exploring various intonations that could imply the speaker said it indirectly, deny saying it, or suggest alternative things they said beyond killing him.

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.