7.1.2 Pronunciation and Emphatic Stress

• Emphatic and contrastive stress
• Intonation patterns: falling, rising and fall-rise
• Intonation in questions and statements
• How intonation signals attitude

• use emphatic stress to highlight meaning
• use contrastive stress to correct or distinguish
• apply falling and rising intonation appropriately
• recognise attitude conveyed through intonation

“How can the same sentence be a question, a statement or a challenge?”

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1. Emphatic and contrastive stress
   40 min · 2 practice tasks · quiz
   Overriding the normal pattern to make a point or correct a mistake.
2. Intonation
   40 min · 2 practice tasks · quiz
   The rise and fall of the voice, and what each pattern tells a listener.
3. Tunes that change attitude
   40 min · 1 practice tasks · quiz
   Using fall, rise and fall-rise so the same sports sentence is a fact, a question or a warning.
4. Correcting without starting a fight
   40 min · 1 practice tasks · quiz
   Using contrastive stress and a fall to correct a sports fact so the other person hears the fix, not an attack.