Refreshment Course on British Pronunciation: Intonation with elements of voice management

Timetable

2 groups

Module aim (aims)

To raise Students' awareness of importance of intonation

To encourage Students to use different patterns of intonation

To practice vocal skills in public speaking

Pre-requisites in terms of knowledge, skills and social competences (where relevant)

Students' level of English B2

willingness to experiment with voice

social skills

basic knowledge of using online resources

Syllabus

Week 1: Introductory class. Information on credit requirements. Recordings.
Week 2: Recording analysis. How does the voice work?
Week 3: English sounds characteristics: easy onset vs. hard glottal attack, voicing.

Week 4: Linking and assimilation.

Week 5: Tonic syllable and main intonation patterns. 
Week 6: Highlighting cont.

Week 7: The Falling Tone: Telling. 
Week 8: The Falling and Fall Rise Tone: Telling and referring. 
Week 9: Revision, question tags.

Week 10: The Rise Tone: Roles and status of speakers

Week 11: Low Key Information.

Week 12: Contrast. The Rise fall patterns

Week 13: Revision and practice.

Week 14: Pitch, intonation and voice quality in public speaking. Examples.
Week 15: Five Voices. Course sum up and feedback. 

Reading list

Bradford B. 1992. Intonation in Context, Cambridge: CUP

Brazil D. 1994, Pronunciation for Advanced Learners, Cambridge: CUP

Maley A. 2000, The Language Teacher’s Voice, Macmillan Education

Ponsonby, M. 1990 How Now Brown Cow, Prentice Hall

Richter B et all, 2017. The Voice Insight into the Physiology of Singing and Speaking, Helbling,

Roach P. 2012, English Phonetics and Phonology, A practical Course, Cambridge: CUP

Vaughan-Rees M. 1994 Rhymes and Rhythm Macmillan Publishers Ltd

Vaughan-Rees M. 2003 Test Your: Pronunciation, Penguin English Guides, Pearson Education Limited

Wells J.C., 2006, English Intonation, An Introduction. Cambridge: CUP

Wells J.C. 2014. Sounds interesting. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.