...great video .. for practicing everyday talk intonation... I think there are at least 3 different patterns of intonation: 1. everyday style - calm natural conversation...like in this video 2. reading a story or text out loud - for instance, reading Gospel out loud ... or style you hear listening to an audiobook... 3. public speech - as in TED talk
Hi. Well, I'd argue the same patterns are used, but the style changes. Rate of speech, clarity of sounds, and things like the use of strategic pauses all play a role. I've worked with a number of different TED Talks and academic lectures in the context of private lessons. There are different speaking styles.
@@Englishwithjennifer ...Agreed !!...The STYLE difference is the broader and better term for how to think about English speaking patterns. I only noticed recently that English sounds different to me when someone is reading a text out loud, interviewing someone, or giving a TED talk...
I've watched tons of youtube videos about intonation-most are only talking about the basic rules, such as rising intonation for Yes/No questions, falling intonation for W questions and statements..blah blah blah. So i was still at lost when saying or reading a long sentence. Your video is way more helpful!! Thanks so much!!!!
I'm happy this video has been helpful. I was determined to be very thorough when I covered intonation. Here's the link to the series. th-cam.com/play/PLfQSN9FlyB6T-lbREfi4sNi5MI2MmYGmc.html Intonation is indirectly practiced in my Oral Reading Fluency series. If the early texts are too slow, then jump to the more recent ones. th-cam.com/video/3RehCAtc638/w-d-xo.html I'll be covering intonation a bit more on Instagram in the near future. #englishwithjenniferlebedev
Hi from Peru .This is new information to me. I think entonation will help me speak English more naturally AT LAST!, Thank you very much brilliant teacher Jennifer
Hello from the U.S.! I hope you'll follow the whole series on intonation. th-cam.com/play/PLfQSN9FlyB6T-lbREfi4sNi5MI2MmYGmc.html Please also check out my Fast Speech Challenge and the Oral Reading Fluency texts. :) Regards!
This lesson should be repeated for a few time to sink into our memory bank. This very innovative lesson will be a challenge, for my English learning pattern ! Thank you Jennifer .
That's exactly what I want learners to do. I encourage you to review, practice, and focus on model sentences that are particularly challenging. First, just listen and try to hear the patterns. Then slowly start repeating. Kind wishes!
Thank you, Mrs. Jennifer. This was a very powerful lesson from a very skillful teacher. Not only do I gain a lot of helpful and important information, but I also enjoy watching you manipulating your teaching skills in a very deft manner. Kudos to you, my great teacher. :)
Hi Jennifer: Thank you very much for your prompt reply, as we don't have a proper lessons. semesters and lectures on those training, not to mention further test. Every time when you see those Hong Kong government officials being interviews, they almost say English word one by one with some pitch and no intonations as well, is that any books or references that we can make self study as we just have piles of books on individual word pronunciations, but no material on how to speak a little bit longer sentences, you recommend helps me a lot, you direct me and also signify me a good direction how to do, I am now at least superior them at least 1 million people in Hong Kong as at least I can able to explain how to speak a longer sentence. Thank you very very much. Best Regards. Have a nice weekend, Jennifer. Thank you very much again.
You'll find many videos on intonation theses days, but some are limited to rising and falling intonation in simple sentences. I tried to present a range of patterns that you'll hear in American English. I encourage you to work with my Oral Reading Fluency texts as well. Intonation is taught indirectly, but if you understand how I break up sentences into thought groups, you'll more easily be able to repeat after me. Here's the link to all my playlists. englishwithjennifer.com/students/yt-videos/ Good luck!
Great! I teach English as a foreign language in Brazil and I was looking for videos which could help me teach these prosodic features in a way that it wouldn´t be hard for students to understand. Thanks a lot!!!
I have a lot of problems speaking and read longer sentences, and I tend to stress all content word equally. I going to practices this lessons to improve my skills. Thank you!
Please watch the whole series. You may also like Lesson 20 in my Fast Speech series as well as some of the newer texts in my Oral Reading Fluency playlist. All the playlists are here: th-cam.com/users/JenniferESLplaylists?flow=grid&view=1
Hi dear jennifer.jus god knows how much u could help me in sentences intonation.jus with yer training i eventually succeed on it.lotssa thenk u dear.nima from iran
Hello Nima. I hope you enjoyed this playlist, and if you haven't tried it yet, look at some of the lessons in my Oral Reading Fluency series. Some of my videos on Instagram also target pronunciation. Kind regards from the USA!
Jennifer, thank you for all your helpful videos. I'm an ESL teacher and I share your videos with my students often. You help me notice so many subtleties of the language. Thanks for taking the time to create these videos and for sharing.
You are so welcome, Marianne. I'm glad my videos can support your instruction. Here are all my playlists. www.englishwithjennifer.com/students/yt-videos/ I invite you to visit my ELT blog, too. englishwithjennifer.wordpress.com/ Regards!
Dear Ms. Jennifer, many, many thanks for making it clear, how to use intonation in longer sentences. To my expereience the fall rise intonation is more common, but as you put it it depends on the purpose. May be some words could have been said on the generally accepted final fall intonation as I also heard from you, if I am not mistaken. Best regards. Paul, 66, retired teacher never ending to learn more.
For almost a year now, I've been working very intensively with one professional who must present frequently. We've used many models to work on intonation and other aspects of his speech. By far, the best speakers favor fall-rise over the mid-rise in that mid-sentence position. It's more authoritative. The good speakers, though, use some variation. They do rise sometimes mid-sentence, but not as often. The other aspect we've given attention to is variation of the rate of speech, especially slowing down on key words. Combined with word stress, speed is an effective tool. We can slow down or speed up at will. Thanks for watching.
In your geat tips we also can get lots of the alive,common expressions( for instance "compared with some...";"if I have a time...") and so on.It 's great!!, Thank you!
Linda Jennifer he estado escuchando tus videos on English y me han encantado mucho quisiera Hablar el English como usted thanks you beautiful woman And professional teacher
Thank you Jeniffer. I'm an aspiring writer and I stumbled on your channel today while searching for English language resources on punctuation.Thank you very much for this channel.
Hello! I have my writing aspirations, too. :) I'm happy you found my videos on punctuation. All my playlists are here: englishwithjennifer.com/book-a-lesson/ Kind wishes to you!
Now I have a better idea on intonation and sentence pausing through your expalanation in videos and recoomendations in your's reply. It is really hepful and usefull. Now, I have much better attentions and understanding while watching English Tv programmes and movies, I am now working on murder on the orient express film and book by Agatha Christie , but ithink a need sometimes, you are excellent. Best Regards. Thank you very very much. Seth Wu
Hi Seth. You might also get some audio books to improve your listening. If you have the text as well, then you can listen and repeat and use short segments for pronunciation practice. :)
Awesome teacher! I'm studying the teacher training course in Argentina. I have an important exam about intonation in two weeks and your videos are so useful to clarify some doubts. Thanks a lot, Jen!
I'm happy the videos are supporting your training. Good luck on the exam! In the future, please visit my blog for teachers. englishwithjennifer.wordpress.com/
You're welcome. Please consider my Patreon program. It targets all skills. Each month has a new topic, but I always work in listening, speaking, reading, and writing. Find me on Patreon @englishwithjennifer Group lessons and access to all the bonus materials start at $10/month.
Dear Jennifer: This weekend is the most worthly in my life by watching your videos as you did it with altruism. Yhank very much to tue power x . You are the greatest. Have a nice weekend . Best Regards. Seth Wu
Hello Jennifer. Great job and nice boots! Thank you. By the way, It will be nice to see you as a special guest on The English Show ( with Vicki, Jay and Jason) this Sunday. Bye for now.
Your very welcome! I will be your supporter from now on. I'm new in youtube,your the first person I've subscribed.I am very thankful I found your channel.❤
Thank you so much for these videos. I really like the warm tone of your voice and the way you use your hands to get the point across. Intonation is the most difficult part of spoken English for me. I am going through your intonation and oral reading fluency videos. Hope I will get the idea and will be able to express myself well. I have a question: I use my gut to control my pitch. Is it the right way to do it?
Thank you for reading with me. I hope you'll also check out my Oral Reading Fluency playlist. All my playlists are on my website. I have more videos on Instagram. I think you can project your voice (get louder) using your diaphragm, but that's different from changing your pitch. Your vocal chords change your pitch.
After watcjing your's pesetnation, It is one of the greatest english teaching programmes I ever heard. Could you tell me where we need to pulse before every preposition like most Hong Kong treachers say, coudl you mind send sometimes to clear my quaries? Best Regards. Seth
Hi Seth. Are you asking where to pause? If a sentence is short, there may be only one thought group: I waved to him. However, if the sentence is longer, often a prepositional phrase can become a thought group on its own. We tend to break up long sentences into grammatical units, and those grammatical units are thought groups. Each group has its own intonation pattern. Often there are slight pauses between thought groups, especially if the punctuation marks the groups (by commas, etc.). But it's important to not that there isn't always a pause after a thought group. EXAMPLE: I felt like spending the whole morning/ under a warm blanket.// I may not necessarily pause before "under," but I'd use two separate thought groups in that sentence.
Thank you Miss Jennifer, Its very interesant know the intonation in the large sentences english, its similar to director of the opera . I try knew it many time ago..
Jennifer, you are too good. Thanks for these videos, they are very helpful. I have a question. How can we bring about the intonation when we are reading a text without knowing the content that is coming up?
Even native speakers sometimes have to reread a sentence because we didn't immediately understand the structure. But usually punctuation and grammatical units signal the structure, so we can automatically break sentences into thought groups and use appropriate intonation. Have you watched my lessons on sentence structure? They're in my English grammar playlist. I also encourage you to work with my Oral Reading Fluency series.
@@Englishwithjennifer these intonation sentenes is going to help me a lot all I do need to do is practice everyday to sound like a native speaker because I am a non-native speakers
We see some fun intonation here. Footwear: Those boots must be awkward to put on, but they're very nice. I think I have about a dozen pairs of shoes. When the heels start to wear out, I don't wear them anymore, but I don't throw them away either.
Hi Jennifer, I hope you are well. I really like your lessons. I just have a question about this video. "Compared to some" , here 'some' is a pronoun, it's not a content word. So why should we stress it? Should we stress 'compared' in this case? Thank you so much!
hi jennifer! İ need your help. can you give me an example how to prepare a powerpoint on raising and falling intonation for elementary students. regards
Hi Lucia. For kids, I'd keep text minimal and make sure the font is big enough to read. Keep the sentences relevant to the kids and the world as they know it. You can use humor. :) Add images and use arrows to mark rising and falling intonation. You can use just 1-3 sentences per slide, depending on the length. FALLING: 1. I have a pet frog. (glide down) 2. Frogs can jump . (glide down) 3. My frog's name is Freddy. (step down) 4. Freddy jumped out of his container. (step down) 5. When Freddy jumped out and on to the floor, /my mom screamed.// (two patterns in this long sentence) 6. I caught Freddy, /and put him back in his container.// (two patterns in this long sentence) 7. Do you have a pet? (glide up) 8. Do you like frogs? (glide up) 9. Would you hold a lizard? (step up) 10. Could you live with a monkey? (step up) 11. What kinds of animals do you like? (falling) 12. Where you can get a pet snake? (falling) Make the presentation interactive when you finally used the slides in the classroom. You might find ideas on my ELT blog. englishwithjennifer.wordpress.com/?s=intonation Good luck!
A low-rise (also called a mid-rise) can happen on lists of items or mid-sentence, for example, after a long introductory phrase. It's a rise, but not as high as a full rise on a yes-no question. A fall-rise (also called a drop-rise) can happen in some of the same places. It can sound more formal. I use it on transition words like "however" and "furthermore." The pitch drops and then rises.
Hi, Jennifer. When we say a sentence, the speaker is the one who know about the words which bring the main information and emphasize it. the intonation is like the stairs, we raise our voice at the keyword and lower gradually it until the next keyword. Is that right?
Yes, if you mean that we stress a key word. Content words are stressed. Function words aren't. However, we usually have a main focus word in the sentence where the intonation changes. Stressed words have a stressed syllable with a stressed vowel sound. That sound is generally louder, longer, and at a higher pitch.
Hi Jennifer, thanks very much for this very useful video!!! I really improved a lot in terms of mastering intonation. However, after having viewed this whole series multiple times (especially this episode), I still have a question that is perplexing me a lot. That is, where EXACTLY should rising intonation be used in a long sentence? such as "I have just been to Buckingham Palace for an audience with Her Majesty The Queen to mark the dissolution of this Parliament." I have listened the audio of this sentences many times, and I, according to my understanding, used slashes to notify where the rising intonation is used , as follows: "I have just been / to Buckingham Palace for an audience / with Her Majesty The Queen / to mark the dissolution of this Parliament." Is my understanding right? If it is, I have noticed that rising intonation is applied at almost every ending of a thought group, but not every ending of a "thought group". ( in this sample, instead of rising intonation, the speaker used a falling intonation for word group "Buckingham Palace") This confused me a lot, can you please explain why? ( why rising intonation is not used in every ending of a thought group) or Must rising intonation be used at ending part of thought group? Thanks very much in advance. Zas
Hi Zas. With longer sentences personal preferences come into play. In general, we keep grammatical units together, so phrases aren't usually broken up. Also, a thought group doesn't necessarily require a pause and the end (as in brief silence), but a focus word will mark the end of that thought. I'd likely break up your example like this: I have just been to Buckingham PALace/ for an audience with Her MAJesty/ The QUEEN/ to mark the dissolution of this PARliament.// The final content word in each group is the focus word and receives more stress. A mid-sentence pause can use a fall-rise, low-rise, or even level intonation. There's variation. I'd use a lot of fall-rise intonation within and then use a deep fall on "parliament." You might like to work with some of my higher, more recent texts in my Oral Reading Fluency series. I'll try to add more in 2017. th-cam.com/users/JenniferESLplaylists?view=1&flow=grid Hope this helps.
Hi Jennifer, thanks very much for your quick response and elaborate explanation!!! This perfectly solved my confusion!!! Can't wait to check out the new series.
Hi Jennifer, Awesome! It was a superb video. It really helped me a lot to get to grips with the idea of intonation in longer sentences. But Jennifer I have a question. Don't you think that the first part of your sentence /If someone got a chance to look at all your shoes/ can further be divided into two thought groups i-e /If someone got a chance/ to look at all your shoes/? Can't we have low-rise or fall-rise intonation on the two focus words of the first two thought groups before our voice dips down in the final thought group? Let me give you one more example. "Compared to some it may seem like I have a lot." You have divided this sentence in two thought groups "Compared to some/ it may seem like I have a lot." What if I divide it into three thought groups....Compared to some/ it may seem like/ I have a lot." and I raise my voice on the focus words "some" and "like" and drop my voice on "have a lot? To cut the long story short, my question is: Is there any specific rule about dividing the sentence into different thought groups? Thanks in advance and my profound apologies for my bad English because I am learning it.
Glad you liked it. I could go into more detail about thought groups (and other details like the grammar of each sentence), but the video is already long. I could have explained, for example, that with compound nouns, the first word is stressed: DRESS shoes, etc. Hopefully, the pattern is clear through examples. Also, by long beginnings, I mean adverb phrases, prepositional phrases, long subjects, and clauses. Two guidelines: 1. If you speak slowly, there will likely be more pauses. 2. Thought groups don't necessarily imply a noticeable pause, just an end to an intonation group. I could have noted another thought group here: Compared to some,/ it may seem like I have a lot,/ but I think the number of shoes in my closet/ is average. >> Before "is average" we have a very long subject. I actually used a bit of fall-rise there, but since I didn't break, I decided not to call attention to it and focus more on the first part of the statement. I wouldn't break after "it may seem." Yes, you could break up this one more if you wanted: If someone got a chance/ to look at all your shoes...
Hee hee. :) I grew up saying "tennis shoes," but here in New England everyone says "sneakers." It's regional. Both are used in the U.S. It's almost 50/50. See this map. www4.uwm.edu/FLL/linguistics/dialect/staticmaps/q_73.html
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That is an amazing comment to receive. Thank you, Ali.
...great video .. for practicing everyday talk intonation...
I think there are at least 3 different patterns of intonation:
1. everyday style - calm natural conversation...like in this video
2. reading a story or text out loud - for instance, reading Gospel out loud ... or style you hear listening to an audiobook...
3. public speech - as in TED talk
Hi. Well, I'd argue the same patterns are used, but the style changes. Rate of speech, clarity of sounds, and things like the use of strategic pauses all play a role. I've worked with a number of different TED Talks and academic lectures in the context of private lessons. There are different speaking styles.
@@Englishwithjennifer ...Agreed !!...The STYLE difference is the broader and better term for how to think about English speaking patterns. I only noticed recently that English sounds different to me when someone is reading a text out loud, interviewing someone, or giving a TED talk...
The clip is really helpful. It helps me understand why the intonation is sometimes up or down. Thanks a lot, Jennifer!
You're most welcome! :)
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I've watched tons of youtube videos about intonation-most are only talking about the basic rules, such as rising intonation for Yes/No questions, falling intonation for W questions and statements..blah blah blah. So i was still at lost when saying or reading a long sentence. Your video is way more helpful!! Thanks so much!!!!
I'm happy this video has been helpful. I was determined to be very thorough when I covered intonation. Here's the link to the series. th-cam.com/play/PLfQSN9FlyB6T-lbREfi4sNi5MI2MmYGmc.html
Intonation is indirectly practiced in my Oral Reading Fluency series. If the early texts are too slow, then jump to the more recent ones. th-cam.com/video/3RehCAtc638/w-d-xo.html
I'll be covering intonation a bit more on Instagram in the near future. #englishwithjenniferlebedev
Hi from Peru .This is new information to me. I think entonation will help me speak English more naturally AT LAST!, Thank you very much brilliant teacher Jennifer
Hello from the U.S.!
I hope you'll follow the whole series on intonation. th-cam.com/play/PLfQSN9FlyB6T-lbREfi4sNi5MI2MmYGmc.html
Please also check out my Fast Speech Challenge and the Oral Reading Fluency texts. :) Regards!
1) low-rise : less certain, more information
2) fall-rise : more certain, pause
It's just a thought I had, but it's not a set rule. ;)
Hi Jennifer, I loved the way you used gestures to show the rises/falls and guide the intonation. You are a talented teacher! Best, Albert
Hi Albert. I'm glad the gestures helped. Best wishes to you!
This lesson should be repeated for a few time to sink into our memory bank.
This very innovative lesson will be a challenge, for my English learning pattern !
Thank you Jennifer .
That's exactly what I want learners to do. I encourage you to review, practice, and focus on model sentences that are particularly challenging. First, just listen and try to hear the patterns. Then slowly start repeating. Kind wishes!
Thank you, Mrs. Jennifer. This was a very powerful lesson from a very skillful teacher. Not only do I gain a lot of helpful and important information, but I also enjoy watching you manipulating your teaching skills in a very deft manner. Kudos to you, my great teacher. :)
Hi Essam. I appreciate your support each week. Thank you for your enthusiasm here and on Simor! :)
Hi Jennifer: Thank you very much for your prompt reply, as we don't have a proper lessons. semesters and lectures on those training, not to mention further test. Every time when you see those Hong Kong government officials being interviews, they almost say English word one by one with some pitch and no intonations as well, is that any books or references that we can make self study as we just have piles of books on individual word pronunciations, but no material on how to speak a little bit longer sentences, you recommend helps me a lot, you direct me and also signify me a good direction how to do, I am now at least superior them at least 1 million people in Hong Kong as at least I can able to explain how to speak a longer sentence. Thank you very very much. Best Regards. Have a nice weekend, Jennifer. Thank you very much again.
You'll find many videos on intonation theses days, but some are limited to rising and falling intonation in simple sentences. I tried to present a range of patterns that you'll hear in American English. I encourage you to work with my Oral Reading Fluency texts as well. Intonation is taught indirectly, but if you understand how I break up sentences into thought groups, you'll more easily be able to repeat after me. Here's the link to all my playlists. englishwithjennifer.com/students/yt-videos/ Good luck!
Great! I teach English as a foreign language in Brazil and I was looking for videos which could help me teach these prosodic features in a way that it wouldn´t be hard for students to understand. Thanks a lot!!!
I have a lot of problems speaking and read longer sentences, and I tend to stress all content word equally. I going to practices this lessons to improve my skills. Thank you!
Please watch the whole series. You may also like Lesson 20 in my Fast Speech series as well as some of the newer texts in my Oral Reading Fluency playlist. All the playlists are here: th-cam.com/users/JenniferESLplaylists?flow=grid&view=1
you are a good teacher, I like your vedeo lessons.
Thank you for the support. Kind wishes to you!
Thank you very much, I will going to search in the library in the vicinity. Thanks. Best Regards
Hi dear jennifer.jus god knows how much u could help me in sentences intonation.jus with yer training i eventually succeed on it.lotssa thenk u dear.nima from iran
Hello Nima. I hope you enjoyed this playlist, and if you haven't tried it yet, look at some of the lessons in my Oral Reading Fluency series. Some of my videos on Instagram also target pronunciation. Kind regards from the USA!
Jennifer, thank you for all your helpful videos. I'm an ESL teacher and I share your videos with my students often. You help me notice so many subtleties of the language. Thanks for taking the time to create these videos and for sharing.
You are so welcome, Marianne. I'm glad my videos can support your instruction. Here are all my playlists. www.englishwithjennifer.com/students/yt-videos/
I invite you to visit my ELT blog, too. englishwithjennifer.wordpress.com/
Regards!
Dear Ms. Jennifer, many, many thanks for making it clear, how to use intonation in longer sentences. To my expereience the fall rise intonation is more common, but as you put it it depends on the purpose. May be some words could have been said on the generally accepted final fall intonation as I also heard from you, if I am not mistaken. Best regards. Paul, 66, retired teacher never ending to learn more.
For almost a year now, I've been working very intensively with one professional who must present frequently. We've used many models to work on intonation and other aspects of his speech. By far, the best speakers favor fall-rise over the mid-rise in that mid-sentence position. It's more authoritative. The good speakers, though, use some variation. They do rise sometimes mid-sentence, but not as often. The other aspect we've given attention to is variation of the rate of speech, especially slowing down on key words. Combined with word stress, speed is an effective tool. We can slow down or speed up at will. Thanks for watching.
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Hello. I'm happy my channel is a part of your language studies. :)
In your geat tips we also can get lots of the alive,common expressions( for instance "compared with some...";"if I have a time...") and so on.It 's great!!, Thank you!
I'm glad you're picking up useful expressions. :) Kind regards!
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I'm happy my lessons have been helpful.
It is my second time for watching this video. I think it takes time for me to handle all the skills!
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Wonderful lesson. Thank you so much.
You're very welcome!
Linda Jennifer he estado escuchando tus videos on English y me han encantado mucho quisiera Hablar el English como usted thanks you beautiful woman And professional teacher
Thank you for studying with me.
Thank you Jeniffer. I'm an aspiring writer and I stumbled on your channel today while searching for English language resources on punctuation.Thank you very much for this channel.
Hello! I have my writing aspirations, too. :) I'm happy you found my videos on punctuation. All my playlists are here: englishwithjennifer.com/book-a-lesson/ Kind wishes to you!
Now I have a better idea on intonation and sentence pausing through your expalanation in videos and recoomendations in your's reply. It is really hepful and usefull. Now, I have much better attentions and understanding while watching English Tv programmes and movies, I am now working on murder on the orient express film and book by Agatha Christie , but ithink a need sometimes, you are excellent. Best Regards. Thank you very very much. Seth Wu
Hi Seth. You might also get some audio books to improve your listening. If you have the text as well, then you can listen and repeat and use short segments for pronunciation practice. :)
Awesome teacher! I'm studying the teacher training course in Argentina. I have an important exam about intonation in two weeks and your videos are so useful to clarify some doubts. Thanks a lot, Jen!
I'm happy the videos are supporting your training. Good luck on the exam!
In the future, please visit my blog for teachers. englishwithjennifer.wordpress.com/
You are very good teacher I've ever seen. Thanks so much for all your lessons. They're really helpful and so practical!
Thank you for studying with me.
Thanks! It really helps non-English speakers like me!
I'm happy to hear that. You'll find this playlist and all my videos on my website.
englishwithjennifer.com/students/yt-videos/
Take care!
Thank you! Jennifer. Amazing class, but I need more practice! I need speak more.thanks!!🌺🍃
You're welcome. Please consider my Patreon program. It targets all skills. Each month has a new topic, but I always work in listening, speaking, reading, and writing. Find me on Patreon @englishwithjennifer
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Came for intonation lessons. Got intonation lessons and some shoes advice. Thumbs up
Super! :)
This video is very helpful for me to learn speaking english. Thank you, Jennifer!
I'm very happy to hear that. I hope you'll watch the whole series.
Thank YOU for this AMAZING videa and I LOVE the way you teach intonation, which is practical and easy to follow.
Glad you enjoyed it! I hop you watch the whole playlist. :)
Extremely useful, thanks so much Jennifer
So glad! Thank you for watching.
thank uuuuuu so much for sharing this vedio as it has helped me in my verbal assessment test in my company
That's wonderful! Keep up your studies. Thanks for choosing to watch my lessons. :)
Dear Jennifer: This weekend is the most worthly in my life by watching your videos as you did it with altruism. Yhank very much to tue power x . You are the greatest. Have a nice weekend . Best Regards. Seth Wu
Thank you for the very kind words. I'm happy these videos are a part of your studies. Kind wishes to you!
you are graceful,your voice is very nice ,great teacher!!
Thank you for your kind comment. Have a great weekend!
Hello Jennifer. Great job and nice boots! Thank you. By the way, It will be nice to see you as a special guest on The English Show ( with Vicki, Jay and Jason) this Sunday. Bye for now.
Thanks. See you on Sunday.
Your awesome! I just love your teaching so much. God bless you
Thank you for the support. :)
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thank you Ms for this new video
You're welcome, Sergio!
Thank you so much for these videos. I really like the warm tone of your voice and the way you use your hands to get the point across. Intonation is the most difficult part of spoken English for me. I am going through your intonation and oral reading fluency videos. Hope I will get the idea and will be able to express myself well. I have a question: I use my gut to control my pitch. Is it the right way to do it?
Thank you for reading with me. I hope you'll also check out my Oral Reading Fluency playlist. All my playlists are on my website. I have more videos on Instagram. I think you can project your voice (get louder) using your diaphragm, but that's different from changing your pitch. Your vocal chords change your pitch.
You're being so helpful! I've always been puzzled about English intonation!
I'm glad this is helpful. Please also follow me on Instagram. I have more videos to help with listening and speaking.
Mam,u r an amazing teacher...ur way of teaching is so good
Thank you for the kind words. Please watch the whole series. :)
really help a lot to improve my English thank you so much.
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Thank you.Great.Sayenizde çoxlu öyrənmiş olduq.
I'm happy you liked the lesson.
Stunning lecture!!! Thanks Jennifer!
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This is a huge help both me and my students. Thank you very much!
That's wonderful to hear. Regards to you and your students!
Thank you, again!
I am so happy Ms Jennifer cause I followeing you
but I need improve my listing in English I have problem
Have you worked with my Fast Speech Challenge? Also use the Oral Reading Fluency series for listening practice.
I sometimes post some listening tasks on Simor.org. It's free to join.
hello Jennifer. thanks for your videos. they really help
You're most welcome!
Thank you very much for this interesting video. It really helps 😊.
I'm happy to hear that, Neven. Take care!
Thank you😊, so do i. See you tomorrow on the live YT video. Can't wait. Good luck✌. Take care💪.
Thanks, Neven. See you!
Precious series! Thanks for sharing your knowledge with us!
Thank you for the kind comment. Enjoy your weekend and I'll be back in a couple weeks with a new intonation lesson.
I love your videos ..you sound so calm that everything seems soo easy !!! thank´s a lot
Thank you for choosing to study with me, Cecilia. :)
You helps me so much thank you. It's my essays topic . hope I can write it well thanks to you😍
Hi. I list a couple writing resources on my website. They have info on essay writing. englishwithjennifer.com/students/student-resources/ Good luck!
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"Thought groups" = intonation groups
When you meet (,) rising intonation occurs. But when you meet (.) falling intonation appears.
That's a helpful guideline.
After watcjing your's pesetnation, It is one of the greatest english teaching programmes I ever heard. Could you tell me where we need to pulse before every preposition like most Hong Kong treachers say, coudl you mind send sometimes to clear my quaries? Best Regards. Seth
Hi Seth. Are you asking where to pause? If a sentence is short, there may be only one thought group: I waved to him. However, if the sentence is longer, often a prepositional phrase can become a thought group on its own. We tend to break up long sentences into grammatical units, and those grammatical units are thought groups. Each group has its own intonation pattern. Often there are slight pauses between thought groups, especially if the punctuation marks the groups (by commas, etc.). But it's important to not that there isn't always a pause after a thought group.
EXAMPLE: I felt like spending the whole morning/ under a warm blanket.//
I may not necessarily pause before "under," but I'd use two separate thought groups in that sentence.
love your lessons!
Thanks for the warm support, Jacqueline!
Thank you Miss Jennifer, Its very interesant know the intonation in the large sentences english, its similar to director of the opera . I try knew it many time ago..
I'm glad you liked this lesson. Have you read any of my texts from the Oral Reading Fluency series?
@@Englishwithjennifer Only I saw the video where u teach the form how intonation the sentences in english. I will see u another videos. Thank you
Just in case, here's the link: www.englishwithjennifer.com/students/yt-videos/
Thanks. This is very useful.
Happy to hear that, Alma. :)
The lessons are great
I'm happy you find them useful. Enjoy the series!
Buenos días Jennifer!
Bueno días, Geraldo. :) Have a good day!
How nicely you taught! 💓
God may always Bless you 😇
I wish I could do something for you 😔
You watched my video, you learned, and you commented. That's terrific! Thank you.
Please feel free to share my lessons with other learners. :)
thanks so much!
You're very welcome.
Thanks MY dear teacher
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Great job, Really you are a great person.
I appreciate your support, Ahmed.
thanks, a lot professor.
great video, thanks!
You're welcome.
Thank you very much!
You're welcome. Good luck in your studies!
Another great and interesting video!
Thank you, Joe. I'll prepare another intonation lesson in a couple weeks. :)
Thank you!
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You're great! Congratulations!
Thank you, Lucia. Take care. :)
I'm your video follower! :)
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Thank you
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awesome! thank you very much for helping me with my phonetics classes:).
Wonderful. Kind wishes to you, Debora!
Jennifer, you are too good. Thanks for these videos, they are very helpful. I have a question. How can we bring about the intonation when we are reading a text without knowing the content that is coming up?
Even native speakers sometimes have to reread a sentence because we didn't immediately understand the structure. But usually punctuation and grammatical units signal the structure, so we can automatically break sentences into thought groups and use appropriate intonation. Have you watched my lessons on sentence structure? They're in my English grammar playlist. I also encourage you to work with my Oral Reading Fluency series.
JenniferESL Thanks Jennifer. I will surely watch the recommended lessons.
Immensely useful!
I'm glad this was useful. :)
thanks
it's great
You're welcome. Enjoy the weekend!
Great! you help me a lot!
I'm happy to hear that!
You and rachel help many people in the world!.
good lessons
Thank you!
I LOVE IT .......LOVE YOU TOO , JENIFR
Thank you for the warm support.
Which intonation pattern sounds more certain and confident ?
Falling intonation conveys certainty.
Intonation is the trickiest part.
It's certainly worth practicing. ;)
Thanks
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This video is helpfull woooow amazing !
Please watch the full playlist. I have more clips to help with pronunciation on Instagram.
@@Englishwithjennifer these intonation sentenes is going to help me a lot all I do need to do is practice everyday to sound like a native speaker because I am a non-native speakers
Great lesson!
Thanks! 😃 I hope you enjoy the full playlist.
@@Englishwithjennifer yes, I am interested in each lesson of you. Big work you did!
You may like some of the videos I have on Instagram too.
instagram.com/reel/CgCOv5-AXOC/?hl=en
Your teaching is excellent. U teach what i need! I have subscribed your channel.
Thank you!
@@Englishwithjennifer Thank u for your reply! Would U please suggest some ways to you "reading aloud with meaning "?
@@Englishwithjennifer some ways to improve "reading aloud with meaning "?
Please view my Oral Reading Fluency playlist. th-cam.com/play/PLfQSN9FlyB6RumUTLuDAGY3m6YpBLHSsw.html
thank you very muche
You're welcome!
In "What would they find out about you?" what made you pick the word "out" as the word to be stressed?
Good question! Phrasal verbs have their own patterns. Here's an older video to help explain. th-cam.com/video/myoGqVpwKm8/w-d-xo.html
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Thank you for watching.
Perfect!
Thank you for the support. I hope it was a useful lesson.
We see some fun intonation here.
Footwear:
Those boots must be awkward to put on, but they're very nice. I think I have about a dozen pairs of shoes. When the heels start to wear out, I don't wear them anymore, but I don't throw them away either.
There are a lot of organizations that take shoe donations. I rarely throw shoes away. There's usually a way to donate them.
Lookin forward to pronunciation skills on Patreon in February! :)
@@Englishwithjennifer I only give good quality things to charity shops, but I think old shoes can be recycled.
Hi Jennifer, I hope you are well. I really like your lessons. I just have a question about this video. "Compared to some" , here 'some' is a pronoun, it's not a content word. So why should we stress it? Should we stress 'compared' in this case?
Thank you so much!
hi jennifer! İ need your help. can you give me an example how to prepare a powerpoint on raising and falling intonation for elementary students. regards
Hi Lucia. For kids, I'd keep text minimal and make sure the font is big enough to read. Keep the sentences relevant to the kids and the world as they know it. You can use humor. :) Add images and use arrows to mark rising and falling intonation. You can use just 1-3 sentences per slide, depending on the length.
FALLING:
1. I have a pet frog. (glide down)
2. Frogs can jump . (glide down)
3. My frog's name is Freddy. (step down)
4. Freddy jumped out of his container. (step down)
5. When Freddy jumped out and on to the floor, /my mom screamed.// (two patterns in this long sentence)
6. I caught Freddy, /and put him back in his container.// (two patterns in this long sentence)
7. Do you have a pet? (glide up)
8. Do you like frogs? (glide up)
9. Would you hold a lizard? (step up)
10. Could you live with a monkey? (step up)
11. What kinds of animals do you like? (falling)
12. Where you can get a pet snake? (falling)
Make the presentation interactive when you finally used the slides in the classroom.
You might find ideas on my ELT blog. englishwithjennifer.wordpress.com/?s=intonation
Good luck!
thanks!
You're very welcome!
plz explain low rise vs fall rise
A low-rise (also called a mid-rise) can happen on lists of items or mid-sentence, for example, after a long introductory phrase. It's a rise, but not as high as a full rise on a yes-no question.
A fall-rise (also called a drop-rise) can happen in some of the same places. It can sound more formal. I use it on transition words like "however" and "furthermore." The pitch drops and then rises.
Hi, Jennifer. When we say a sentence, the speaker is the one who know about the words which bring the main information and emphasize it. the intonation is like the stairs, we raise our voice at the keyword and lower gradually it until the next keyword. Is that right?
Yes, if you mean that we stress a key word. Content words are stressed. Function words aren't. However, we usually have a main focus word in the sentence where the intonation changes.
Stressed words have a stressed syllable with a stressed vowel sound. That sound is generally louder, longer, and at a higher pitch.
Hi Jennifer, thanks very much for this very useful video!!! I really improved a lot in terms of mastering intonation.
However, after having viewed this whole series multiple times (especially this episode), I still have a question that is perplexing me a lot.
That is, where EXACTLY should rising intonation be used in a long sentence?
such as "I have just been to Buckingham Palace for an audience with Her Majesty The Queen to mark the dissolution of this Parliament."
I have listened the audio of this sentences many times, and I, according to my understanding, used slashes to notify where the rising intonation is used , as follows:
"I have just been /
to Buckingham Palace
for an audience /
with Her Majesty The Queen /
to mark the dissolution of this Parliament."
Is my understanding right?
If it is, I have noticed that rising intonation is applied at almost every ending of a thought group, but not every ending of a "thought group".
( in this sample, instead of rising intonation, the speaker used a falling intonation for word group "Buckingham Palace")
This confused me a lot, can you please explain why? ( why rising intonation is not used in every ending of a thought group)
or Must rising intonation be used at ending part of thought group?
Thanks very much in advance.
Zas
Hi Zas. With longer sentences personal preferences come into play. In general, we keep grammatical units together, so phrases aren't usually broken up. Also, a thought group doesn't necessarily require a pause and the end (as in brief silence), but a focus word will mark the end of that thought. I'd likely break up your example like this:
I have just been to Buckingham PALace/ for an audience with Her MAJesty/ The QUEEN/ to mark the dissolution of this PARliament.//
The final content word in each group is the focus word and receives more stress.
A mid-sentence pause can use a fall-rise, low-rise, or even level intonation. There's variation. I'd use a lot of fall-rise intonation within and then use a deep fall on "parliament."
You might like to work with some of my higher, more recent texts in my Oral Reading Fluency series. I'll try to add more in 2017.
th-cam.com/users/JenniferESLplaylists?view=1&flow=grid
Hope this helps.
Hi Jennifer, thanks very much for your quick response and elaborate explanation!!! This perfectly solved my confusion!!! Can't wait to check out the new series.
Hi Jennifer,
Awesome! It was a superb video. It really helped me a lot to get to grips with the idea of intonation in longer sentences. But Jennifer I have a question. Don't you think that the first part of your sentence /If someone got a chance to look at all your shoes/ can further be divided into two thought groups i-e /If someone got a chance/ to look at all your shoes/? Can't we have low-rise or fall-rise intonation on the two focus words of the first two thought groups before our voice dips down in the final thought group? Let me give you one more example. "Compared to some it may seem like I have a lot." You have divided this sentence in two thought groups "Compared to some/ it may seem like I have a lot." What if I divide it into three thought groups....Compared to some/ it may seem like/ I have a lot." and I raise my voice on the focus words "some" and "like" and drop my voice on "have a lot? To cut the long story short, my question is: Is there any specific rule about dividing the sentence into different thought groups? Thanks in advance and my profound apologies for my bad English because I am learning it.
Glad you liked it. I could go into more detail about thought groups (and other details like the grammar of each sentence), but the video is already long. I could have explained, for example, that with compound nouns, the first word is stressed: DRESS shoes, etc. Hopefully, the pattern is clear through examples. Also, by long beginnings, I mean adverb phrases, prepositional phrases, long subjects, and clauses.
Two guidelines:
1. If you speak slowly, there will likely be more pauses.
2. Thought groups don't necessarily imply a noticeable pause, just an end to an intonation group.
I could have noted another thought group here: Compared to some,/ it may seem like I have a lot,/ but I think the number of shoes in my closet/ is average. >> Before "is average" we have a very long subject. I actually used a bit of fall-rise there, but since I didn't break, I decided not to call attention to it and focus more on the first part of the statement. I wouldn't break after "it may seem."
Yes, you could break up this one more if you wanted: If someone got a chance/ to look at all your shoes...
Hi Jennifer, Most English learners are not taught about "sneakers"; they are taught about "tennis shoes". Best, Albert
Hee hee. :) I grew up saying "tennis shoes," but here in New England everyone says "sneakers." It's regional. Both are used in the U.S.
It's almost 50/50. See this map. www4.uwm.edu/FLL/linguistics/dialect/staticmaps/q_73.html
This is best
Thank you.
Thank you Jennifer.
Does the sentence of question end with low intonation?
Please view the whole playlist. Look for yes-no questions (rising) and wh- questions (usually falling).
th-cam.com/play/PLfQSN9FlyB6T-lbREfi4sNi5MI2MmYGmc.html
How can I find this video's text
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Hi. Click on the three dots (...) to open the transcript. You can then toggle the timestamps and copy and paste the text to a Word or Google doc.