ANIA 2018: B2 & C1 (Monday) Lesson 4

Lesson 4
12:30 pm Level B2
Class
The link between grammar & pronunciation




Utterance Stress

• English is stress timed - stressed syllables are spaced evenly in time and unstressed ones are rushed through (c.f. Italian which is syllable timed).
• Potential maximum of utterance stresses is equivalent to the number of lexical words but in reality there will be about 2 or 3 utterance stresses in each sentence. 
• English clauses have an information structure that places new i.e. the most important information at the end of a clause. Neutral utterance stress follows this pattern. 
• When utterance stress is moved it is called Contrastive stress and implies something is being rejected 

Homework
Choose one of the podcasts on the list to listen to. Report back to the group next week about its usefulness and difficulty.

2:00 pm Level C1
Class
Speaking Skills - Collaborative Task - producing a podcast on a historical figure.
Listening Skills - These Words Forever from The Memory Palace 

Listen to Nate DiMeo’s podcast about Guglielmo Marconi here: http://thememorypalace.us/2009/06/episode-12-these-words-forever/

Corrections
talk for you speak for yourself
think to something think about/of something

Vocabulary
visionary
forward thinking

Homework
Reading:
“The Memory Palace”: History in Escapist Vignettes
Sarah Larson January 25, 2018
https://www.newyorker.com/culture/podcast-dept/the-memory-palace-history-in-escapist-vignettes