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1、,Pronunciation,Hertford College Cambridge Yale Columbia Cornell Dartmouth Princeton Pennsylvania Santos Stewart Catherine Kennedy Forbes Nash Alicia Hansen,1. Listen and repeat,Princeton,Columbia,Cornell,Pronunciation,2. Listen and repeat. Notice how the stressed syllable changes.,institute institut

2、ion finance financial elite elitism protest protestant derive derivation symbol symbolic mathematics mathematician,Pair works: Student A reads the words in the left column and Students B reads those on the right. Then switch roles.,Pronunciation,Mark Hi Janet. Welcome to England. What are you readin

3、g? Janet English. Mark How about you, Kate? Kate My major is law. And you? Mark Im studying PPE. Kate Thats a special Oxford subject, isnt it? Check the answers ,3. Listen and underline the words which the speaker stresses.,What is PPE? Ive never heard.,Pronunciation,Mark Hi Janet. Welcome to Englan

4、d. What are you reading? Janet English. Mark How about you, Kate? Kate My major is law. And you? Mark Im studying PPE. Kate Thats a special Oxford subject, isnt it?,Answers,Pronunciation,Stressing different words in English can often give a different meaning, emphasis or attitude to the content.,1.

5、John never goes home after midnight. A. Whatever the others may do. B. There are no exceptions. C. Wherever else he may go. D. Sometimes, its even later.,Try to read the sentences with stress on different words according to the four given meanings.,Pronunciation,3. Apples ought to be a lot cheaper t

6、his year. A. But other fruit may not be. B. But I wonder whether will be. C. Prices should be very much lower. D. They were expensive last year.,2. Im going to the theatre with Jane tonight. A. Whether you like it or not, Im determined to go. B. Not the cinema, as you might expect. C. Not with Mary,

7、 after all. D. Not tomorrow, as wed arranged.,Pronunciation,Mark Hi Janet. Welcome to England. What are you reading? Janet English. Mark How about you, Kate? Kate My major is law. And you? Mark Im studying PPE. Kate Thats a special Oxford subject, isnt it?,4 Listen to the conversation in Activity 3

8、again and read the lines aloud.,Follow-up practice: Work in groups of three. Read the dialogue by the roles and Make sure you stress the words correctly.,Pronunciation,Oxford is a very old university, the oldest English-speaking university in the world. And so therere many traditions which are assoc

9、iated with the colleges, with the times of the year, and with sport, and with eating, for example. Formal Hall is when we all eat together here in college, the professors and the,5. Listen and notice how the speakers voice rises to show she hasnt finished the sentences.,Rising intonation in unfinish

10、ed sentences Our voices usually fall at the end of sentences, although not always at the end of questions. In longer or complex sentences, our voices rise at the end of the first part of the sentence to show the sentence is unfinished.,Pronunciation,students. Usually it takes place at seven oclock i

11、n the evening, and the professors sit on high table, which is the table over here, and the students sit on common table, which are the tables here. But everybody eats together. Its a very beautiful evening because theres a special meal and we eat by candlelight. When the students take exams, they mu

12、st go to a special building and its called Examination Schools.,Follow-up practices: Variation 1: Work in pairs and take turns to read the passage to each other. Variation 2: Volunteer to read the passages to the whole class, appoint one student to reads the following sentence. Then the second stude

13、nt carries on.,Pronunciation,Sense groups When you hear people speaking English, they pause after each sense group. It may not be a long pause, but its just enough to mark the end of one sense group and the start of the next one. If you can pause after sense groups, youll sound more fluent.,Remember

14、 to pause after each sense group!,Pronunciation,Originally the Ivy League referred to the sports teams from the universities which competed against each other, especially in football, basketball and ice hockey. But in the last 50 years, Ivy League schools have accepted a wider range of students beca

15、use it wasnt possible to be both world-famous for research and also top class in sport. But I suppose worldwide, the two that would be definitely known all over the world would certainly be George Bush who went to Yale, and John F Kennedy, President Kennedy, who was at Harvard.,6. Listen and notice

16、how the speaker pauses after each sense group. Mark the pause with “/”.,Pronunciation,Nash believes that hes been asked to work by William Parcher for the US Department of Defense on breaking Soviet codes. And so the story ends when he goes on to win the Nobel Prize in Economics.,Pronunciation,Origi

17、nally / the Ivy League / referred to the sports teams / from the universities / which competed / against each other, / especially / in football, / basketball / and ice hockey. But / in the last 50 years, / Ivy League schools / have accepted / a wider range of students / because / it wasnt possible /

18、 to be / both world-famous / for research / and also / top class / in sport. But / I suppose / worldwide, / the two / that would / be definitely known / all over the world /would certainly be / George Bush / who went to Yale, / and John F Kennedy, / President Kennedy, / who / was at Harvard.,Answers

19、,Pronunciation,Nash believes / that hes been asked to work / by William Parcher / for the US Department of Defense / on breaking / Soviet codes. And so / the story ends / when he goes on / to win / the Nobel Prize / in Economics.,Answers,Pronunciation,Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers.Did Peter Piper pick a peck of pickled peppers?If Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled pe