Speaking Skills

SPEAKING SKILLS STRESS AND INTONATION: While speaking a word, we use extra force in uttering some syllable or syllables in that word. This extra force is called stress and the syllable is called stressed syllable. In the following words, the syllables in bold letters show stress. father | fa-ther | First syllable is stressed | insult | In-sult | Second syllable is stressed | TWO TYPES OF STRESS: There are two types of stress. 1: Word Stress 2: Sentence Stress 1:WORD STRESS: In single words, stress is placed on syllables.There are two simple rules about stress. a: One word has only one primary stress in it.One word cannot have two stress. b: We stress according to the quality of Vowels not Consonants.(Examples given above) 2: SENTENCE STRESS: In sentences,we place the stress on words.Sentence stress is accent on certain words within a sentence.There are two classes of words. a: Contents Words b: Structure Words CONTENTS WORDS: Words carrying the meanings.They are stressed. Main verbs | Sell,go,come,give | Nouns | Chair,table,book,man | Adverbs | Quickly,never,loudly,always |
STRUCTURE WORDS: Words showing grammatical relationship,they are not stressed.

Pronouns | We,you,he,they | Prepositions | In,on,at,from | Articles | A,an,the | INTONATION: The rise and fall of the pitch of our voice is called Intonation.Some degree of intonation is brought about by every person when he/she speaks because the pitch of voice keep on changing. FUNCTION OF INTONATION: Actually, Intonation is a very difficult area of phonetics investigation. When a foreign learner tries to observe intonation, it is after difficult for him to recognize, what falling tone is, what rising tone is.
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