Lombardi Segni & Associati - Legal English - Lesson 5

12:00 pm Level B1

Class

Listening/Pronunciation Skills - Utterance Stress

(1) Neutral Utterance Stress

Past or Present? 

Noticing features of fast connected speech: assimilation, elision, intrusion

(2) Contrastive Stress

Intonation directions - signpost

Source: http://seansenglishclassroom.pbworks.com/w/page/11442648/Pronunciation

Vocabulary
utterance
to cycle

Homework

Do some listening practice this week from a t.v. show or podcast. What do you notice about the stress or intonation? Can you find any examples of contrastive stress? 

1:30 pm Level C1/C2

Class

Listening/Pronunciation Skills - Utterance Stress

(1) Neutral Stress

Third Conditional

Noticing features of fast connected speech: assimilation, elision, intrusion, strong/weak forms.

Noticing the pronunciation of grammatical structures

(2) Contrastive Stress

How intonation affects meaning

Intonation directions - compass

Sources:

Conditionals in general: http://seansenglishclassroom.pbworks.com/w/page/11442621/Conditionals

Third conditional pronunciation exercise: http://seansenglishclassroom.pbworks.com/w/page/32174148/Conditionals%20and%20Pronunciation

Pronunciation in general: http://seansenglishclassroom.pbworks.com/w/page/11442648/Pronunciation

Vocabulary:
to skid
to catch fire
to brake

Going further: 

Leaving New York
Check answers here: http://seansenglishclassroom.pbworks.com/w/page/40022307/REM%20Listening%20answers

In the film The Conversation (1974) an important plot twist hinges on the difference between the neutral and contrastive stress used in the phrase: He'd kill us if he had the chance.