The book ‘Whoever You Are’‚ Written by: Mem Fox‚ and Published by: Hachette Children’s Books Australia (1998)‚ Sydney‚ N.S.W: uses simple everyday language to describe the immense similarities and differences shared between human beings. ‘Whoever You Are’ (Fox‚ 1998) is aimed at Kindergarten students aged five years and over. This book could be used by teachers to help develop children’s oral language skills in activities such as discussions prior to reading‚ about the ways in which children are
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Understanding Rhetorical Structures as they pertain to audience‚ purpose‚ and context Understanding Rhetorical Structure Colton Kiefer EN1420 This paper is about the understanding of the Rhetorical Structures as they pertain to audience‚ purpose‚ and context and how they affect the argument of whether taxes should be raised on higher income brackets in order to fund social programs for at-risk and underserved‚ low income children. I will discuss the relationship between the audience‚ purpose
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1. What factors determine the place and different degree of word stress? Phoneticians divide syllables into strong (heavy) and weak (light). A strong syllable contains a long vowel or a diphthong or a short vowel plus two consonants; syllables with a short vowel and no coda are weak ones. Only strong syllables can be stressed (although not all of them)‚ but weak syllables are never stressed. Factors that may determine the placement of stress are: the morphological structure of the word (whether
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3 FALLIN AND RISING OF TONES TONE: Tone is the change in the pitch of the voice. The pitch falls a little from stress to stress. Then‚ it finally falls at the last meaningful syllable. The pitch remains low for the remaining unstressed syllables. In the rising tone‚ the pitch rises at the last meaningful syllable. It continues to rise for the remaining unstressed syllables. STATEMENTS We can use the falling tone in most normal statements. When you are making a normal statement about which
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Manner of Articulation Stop - Complete closure of the oral cavity. [p]‚ [t]‚ and [k] are examples of oral stops because the nasal cavity is closed as well (i.e. there is no airflow through the nose). [m] and [n] are examples of nasal stops because the nasal cavity remains open allowing airflow through the nose. On a spectrogram oral stops are chracterized by a gap in the formants during the closure‚ followed by a sharp resumption at the release. Stops can be aspirated in which case the release
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Airstream mechanisms Intelligible sounds are produced by firstly placing the organs of the vocal tract in a specific configuration which influences the flow of air as it passes through the oral and/or nasal cavity. To produce a distinctive speech sound‚ there are two requirements: i. a configuration of organs ii. a flow of air or airstream How are airstreams initiated or provoked? Basically‚ the questions to be answered regarding the airstream in the production of most speech sounds are
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Palabras normales Although most Spanish words of more than one syllable contain a stressed vowel‚ the accent mark is not always necessary. This is because the majority of words follow the same tendencies (that is to say that they are normal). Thanks to this‚ it is easy for Spanish speakers to know which syllable to stress. Here are two simple rules that tell you which syllable to stress when the word does NOT carry an acento ortográfico. -If a Spanish word ends in a vowel (a‚ e‚ i‚ o‚ u) or
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Note Summary Form/ Text type & Purpose: Travel writing‚ to inform the reader of unknown tradition and concepts and introducing various issues. Levine chooses to explore this using sports and other traditional forms of entertainment. Audience: Emma Levine does not specify her targeted audience although she hopes to appeal to travelers. Not only does she write to inform travelers‚ her writing style suggests that she attempts to fulfill her reader’s general interests‚ promoting her travels and the
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A Game of Polo with a Headless Goat Background This extract comes from a book which was written as a spin-off from Emma Levine’s television series about strange and unusual sports. It is a travelogue (a book which describes travel in a foreign country) in which she describes these sports‚ the people involved and her experiences of filming them. In doing so‚ she gives an insight not just into the sports themselves‚ but into the lives and culture of the people who take part in (and watch)
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EIILM UNIVERSITY‚ SIKKIM TERM END EXAMINATION‚ SEPTEMBER -2012 B.A GENERAL- (3year) ENGLISH- English for Practical Purpose Time: 3 hours M.Marks:60 Note: - Attempt any 5 questions. All questions carry equal marks. 1. Use the following words in sentences: Empty‚ Vacant‚ Environment ‚ Neighbourhood‚ Employment‚ Job‚ Clean‚ Pure‚ Innocent‚ Criminal. 2. Use the correct form of the verb given
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