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Intonation, rhythm, and stress are a major part of learning how to speak English well. Students should be given plenty of speaking practice during their classes and may occasionally need special lessons devoted to these topics. We have 45 such activities on Busy Teacher. This intonation worksheet, for example, is a well organized role play activity you can use to give your students practice using English in a real life situation. The activity includes all directions and teaching materials including a script.

Intonation, rhythm, and stress become very important topics for advanced learners.

Beginners should be taught what syllable of new words are stressed but are not expected to have excellent intonation or rhythm when it comes to speaking or reading aloud. Advanced learners may have an excellent understanding of English but having incorrect intonation and rhythm when they are speaking will prevent them from coming across that way. Slash reading is an excellent method to practice this with intermediate and advanced learners. For slash reading, have students place slashes where a native speaker would naturally pause. “I have been studying math, / science, / and history / for many years. /” You can also use arrows to give students some guidance too. In the example above the arrows would go down, down, up, and down. These are some very simple approaches to a complex topic.

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Word Stress in the Sentence

Word Stress in the Sentence

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This presentation can help you while teaching stressed syllables of the word and stressed words within the sentence. I have also mentioned the heteronyms (heterophones). I hope it will be useful f ...
27 Views 30,212 Adv
Intermediate/Advanced Oral Presentation Rubric

Intermediate/Advanced Oral Presentation Rubric

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Here is a rubric that is designed to help teachers assess prepared oral presentations by students at the Intermediate/Advanced levels. The rubric contains the following categories to be assessed: ...
18 Views 97,510 IntAdv
Pronunciation of the Phonetic Vowels /ai/ and /i/

Pronunciation of the Phonetic Vowels /ai/ and /i/

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This worksheet is to identify the difference between the long /ai/ sound and the short /i/ sounds that are otften confused by learners. It can be used to find patterns (e.g. the magic 'e' which tr ...
19 Views 50,441 Pre-Int
Practice for Phonetics and Phonology [Advanced Students]

Practice for Phonetics and Phonology [Advanced Students]

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This worksheet is meant for students at advanced levels to practice transcription into IPA and pronunciation. It consists of a series of texts from different authors, including Shakespeare, fairy ...
19 Views 38,525 AdvExam
Idioms & Phonetics

Idioms & Phonetics

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Hello, this is another activity dealing with phonetics symbols, this time it is a text about idioms. The purpose of the task is to choose the correct sound of some words in the text; it's somethin ...
12 Views 18,823 All
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Song Worksheet: Safe and Sound by Taylor Swift

Song Worksheet: Safe and Sound by Taylor Swift

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Students like songs. If they have read or seen The Hunger Games, they will like this song. The lyrics are a bit simple but they can revise vocabulary and present simple and future tenses. It's a g ...
5 Views 33,404 ElemPre-Int
Silent Letters in Enlgish Words

Silent Letters in Enlgish Words

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This worksheet includes a classification of the silent letters (clusters of letters) in English words between brackets with plenty of examples. It can be useful when students are handicapped by th ...
11 Views 32,745 Pre-IntInt
Song Worksheet: I Say a Little Prayer for You [Present Simple Routines]

Song Worksheet: I Say a Little Prayer for You [Present Simple Routines]

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This is a good song to work with daily routines and present simple. It's good to introduce new terms such as comb your hair, put on make up and run for the bus. It is also a good song to introduce ...
43 Views 103,976 Elem
Speaking: Intonation and Feelings

Speaking: Intonation and Feelings

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Includes two different tasks. Explain that 'intonation' is very important in English to show how the speaker is feeling and what his or her attitude is to the listener. Use the example 'really? ' ...
15 Views 27,826 All
Rhyming Words Worksheet

Rhyming Words Worksheet

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The students will read the sentences and encircle the words that rhyme with the word in bold font. Sometimes there are two or more rhyming words in the sentence. They may also add more words to t ...
13 Views 35,878 Elem
Prepositions of Place

Prepositions of Place

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This worksheet provides prompts for students to make their own examples. I ususally have them practice pronunciation and check learning and understanding. They practice a telephone conversation in ...
12 Views 16,030 BegElem
The Golem of Prague: Pronunciation and Short Stories

The Golem of Prague: Pronunciation and Short Stories

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Hello, this is the fifth activity of a series to come dealing with pronunciation. These are activities I create to use in class, the stories are taken from http://www.storynory.com from where you ...
14 Views 27,683 All
Pronunciation and Short Stories 1

Pronunciation and Short Stories 1

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Hello, this is the first activity of a series to come dealing with pronunciation. These are activities I create to use in class, the stories are taken from http://www.storynory.com from where ...
21 Views 21,249 All
Pronunciation: Minimal Pairs and Reading Practice

Pronunciation: Minimal Pairs and Reading Practice

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These are a pair of exercises that I have created to tackle certain confusing sounds for the Spanish speaker who is learning English. I'm sure that it can be modified to reflect the needs of your ...
52 Views 99,736 Pre-IntIntAdvExam
The Schwa

The Schwa

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This worksheet provides many activities and simple explanations as to what "The Schwa" is and how to listen for it and produce it. Some of the exercises have been taken and modified from other wor ...
29 Views 43,795 IntAdvExam
Phonetic Alphabet

Phonetic Alphabet

» Intonation, Rhythm and Stress
Phonetic alphabet with some examples of pronunciation. Students find it a lot easier when they see the word in normal English and then the equivalent in pronunciation. The phonetic symbols are giv ...
50 Views 67,666 Beg
The Speech Mechanism - Basic Concepts

The Speech Mechanism - Basic Concepts

» Intonation, Rhythm and Stress
Two activities to revise some basic concepts about phonetics and phonology and the speech mechanism. The exercises are mainly based on Finch and Ortiz Lira's "A Course in English Phonetics for Spa ...
8 Views 14,416 IntAdv
Song Worksheet: One Headlight by Wallflowers [WITH VIDEO]

Song Worksheet: One Headlight by Wallflowers [WITH VIDEO]

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This is a song called "One Headlight" from Wallflowers that works really well to practice as a listening activity and to increase vocabulary.Kids love it because it tells a story and also it's no ...
14 Views 8,702 Int
Alliteration Worksheet

Alliteration Worksheet

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1. Alliteration is the repetition of a beginning sound to create a certain effect. They may be vowel or consonant sounds. Alliterations appear on only a few words in a poem to highlight or empha ...
7 Views 52,141 Pre-Int
[PORTUGUESE] Song Worksheet: Firework by Katy Perry alternative [WITH VIDEO]

[PORTUGUESE] Song Worksheet: Firework by Katy Perry alternative [WITH VIDEO]

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FOR PORTUGUESE SPEAKERS: Description [translated from Portuguese]: The music video is especially interesting and motivating. It inspires young people to overcome their teenage fears and insecurit ...
5 Views 8,096 Pre-IntInt
Song Worksheet: Because Of You by Kelly Clarkson + Because by The Beatles

Song Worksheet: Because Of You by Kelly Clarkson + Because by The Beatles

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Using two songs to help your students to get the right pronunciation of the word "because" and have some fun while doing it. the first song might be used as an warm up to the following song and ac ...
14 Views 18,034 ElemPre-IntInt
Hickory Dickory Dock: Teaching With Nursery Rhymes

Hickory Dickory Dock: Teaching With Nursery Rhymes

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With a little bit of preparation, this activity will turn into a great lesson-long project that your young learners will simply love! They will create a mouse headband and will be happily practic ...
14 Views 15,780 BegElem
Patty-Cake: Nursery Rhymes Lesson Plan

Patty-Cake: Nursery Rhymes Lesson Plan

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Patty-Cake is a nursery Rhyme lesson plan with several activities and the detailed teacher's notes. Example instructions: Hearing the rhythm: After reciting the rhyme, have students clap it so t ...
13 Views 19,822 BegElem
Super Word Racer

Super Word Racer

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Great and easy phonetic game! the cards are divided into three levels. you can play with one set of cards or you can mix all of them. and they will have different levels. i have not tried it yet b ...
18 Views 9,684 All
Gestures Activity

Gestures Activity

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In this activity students are asked to think of appropriate gestures to illustrate various words, then to actually say several sentences supporting them with corresponding gestures and emphasizing ...
26 Views 38,335 All

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