Stitching & Blackwork

 Stitching and Blackwork

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Doing Maths

 

Tips for Speaking Math Clearly… 

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⚡️Word Stress: The Pitch!

 Today we’re going to unlock a secret to understanding the pitch in the word stress. To create this stress, we give one syllable a special emphasis. We…

• Lengthen it
• Say it with more volume,
• And shift its pitch (like a musical note)...

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Lord Lumley

 

Today we’re diving into a reading drill. The text is taken from Practical English Phonetics edited by E. Karnevskaya.💓 

While the manual packed with helpful drills and clear explanations, I should mention that some of the material feels a bit dated or oddly chosen😬. 

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Stress Shift

 

How do you pronounce ‘fifTEEN’ or ‘FIFteen’ (15)?

Prominence can move to the secondary stressed syllable…

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The Waltz

Hello! We meet to step in the world of waltz today.

We’ll explore dance vocabulary and practise question and answer

tones —let’s hit the floor together!

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Intonation in Yes-No Questions

 

I.

One of the most significant changes in intonation since RP is in yes-no questions, i.e. questions which can be answered ‘yes’ or ‘no’. By far the most common way of asking yes-no questions was with the pattern they called the downstepped Low Rise  or ‘Low Bounce’. This pattern can certainly be heard today, but its meaning is more marked and less neutral than it was in RP. It may show considerable surprise; or it may signal that the speaker is talking ‘down’ to the hearer. Adults might use it when asking small children a question.

Is that chocolate milkshake?

Do you like living in Paris?

 II. 

In SSB today, a more neutral and common way of asking yes-no questions is with a contour which  begins, like the Low Bounce, but it ends in the Fall-Rise nuclear tone rather than the Low Rise. This gives us a more straightforwardly polite yes-no question, suitable for any addressee.

Can you come over now?

In Brief, it was very common in RP to ask yes-no questions with the downstepped Low Rise, but this can now sound old-fashioned or even patronising. So, use the Fall-Rise instead.

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