- •Delivering a lecture
- •I. Input materials
- •1.1. Rhetoric strategy.
- •1.2. Signposts.
- •1.3. Style forming factors.
- •1.5. Delimitation of Discourse
- •1.6. Samples for Study and Analysis. Sample a
- •Good morning!
- •Notions of Style
- •II. Skills Development
- •2.7. Auditory Test
- •Score level criteria
- •Score Mark
- •2.8. Reading Technique
- •III. Project work
- •Sample a Forms of Address in Great Britain
- •Sample b Apologizing and Making Excuses
- •Score level criteria
- •Module 2 making a political speech
- •I. Input materials.
- •Rhetoric strategy.
- •Style forming factors:
- •Tunes (melody contours)
- •Combined tunes
- •1.5. Samples for study and analysis
- •Part of a Political Speech
- •Part of a Political Speech
- •The Common Market Negotiations
- •II. Skills development
- •2.7. Auditory Test
- •Score level criteria
- •2.8. Reading Technique
- •III. Project work
- •Score level criteria
- •Making business presentations
- •I. Input materials
- •1.1. Rhetoric strategy.
- •1.2. Style forming factors
- •1.4. Rhythm
- •1.5. Samples for Study and Analysis
- •The Director of the Milk Marketing Board giving a presentation about key trends
- •Public Ownership
- •II. Skills Development
- •2.7. Auditory Test
- •Analyse these combined tunes:
- •Score level criteria
- •2.8. Reading Technique
- •III. Project work
- •Score level criteria
- •Advertising
- •I. Input materials
- •1.1. Rhetoric strategy.
- •Ways of Advertising
- •1.2. Style forming factors
- •1.3. Questions for preliminary exercise
- •Informative? – persuasive? – amusing? – well-made? – artistic?
- •1.4. Invariant phonostylistic peculiarities
- •1.5. Expressive means of English Intonation
- •Irregular pre-heads
- •Reading
- •1.6. Samples for Study and Analysis tv Commercials
- •Radio Commercials
- •Advertising Campaigns
- •II. Skills Development
- •2.8. Auditory Test
- •Score level criteria
- •2.9. Reading Technique
- •III. Project work
- •Hotel ‘Caliente’ Barcelona
- •Score level criteria
- •Peculiarities of the drama
- •I. Input materials.
- •1.1. Rhetoric strategy
- •1.2. Style forming factors
- •1.3. Invariant phonostylistic peculiarities
- •Delivering a lecture Sample a s f s
- •Sample b s
- •Making a Political Speech Sample a
- •Sample b
- •Making Business Presentation Sample a
- •Sample b
- •Advertising Sample a
- •Sample b
- •1.5. Voice Volume
- •Delivering a Lecture
- •Making a Political Speech
- •Making Business Presentation
- •Advertising
- •Extract One
- •1.6. Samples for Study and Analysis
- •Dramatic Monologue One
- •Dramatic Monologue Two
- •The Metropolitan Playhouse Productions
- •II. Skills Development
- •2.8. Auditory Test
- •Score level criteria
- •2.9. Reading Technique
- •III. Project work
- •Score level criteria
- •Interviewing
- •I. Input materials
- •1.1. Rhetoric strategy
- •1.2. Using questions for control
- •1.3. Style forming factors
- •1.4. Invariant phonostylistic peculiarities
- •1.5. Specifics of the Pre-nuclear Pitch Change (the Head)
- •1.6. Samples for Study and Analysis
- •Linguistic Gaps
- •II. Skills development
- •2.5. Auditory Test
- •Score level criteria
- •2.6. Reading Technique
- •III. Project Work
- •Interview with Carl Sagan
- •Interview with Nigel Dempster
- •Score level criteria
- •Everyday talks
- •I. Input materials
- •1.1. Rhetoric strategy
- •1.2. Style forming factors
- •1.3. Invariant phonostylistic peculiarities
- •1.4. Weakform Words
- •II. Samples for Study and Analysis
- •Extract from a Spy Story
- •II. Skills Development
- •2.7. Auditory Test
- •Score level criteria
- •2.8. Reading Technique
- •III. Project Work
- •Finding Somewhere to Live
- •The Ladies’ Dress Department
- •Score level criteria
- •Fairy tale rhetoric and language teaching
- •I. Input materials
- •1.1. Rhetoric strategy
- •1.2. Invariant phonostylistic peculiarities
- •1.3. Pragmaphonetic modeling
- •1.4. Samples for study and analysis
- •Snow White and Rose Red
- •The Happy Prince
- •II. Skills Development
- •2.6. Auditory Test
- •Score level criteria
- •2.7. Reading Technique
- •III. Project work
- •3.1. Reading Technique
- •The Star-child
- •The Young King
- •3.2. Drama Technique
- •Goldilocks and the Three Bears
- •Little Red Riding Hood and the Wolf
- •Supplement Effective Presentation Technique
- •How we breathe
- •Types of Breathing
- •Diaphragmatic Breathing for Speech
- •Exercises for Diaphragmatic Breathing and Control
- •Exercises for Breath Control
- •Overcoming speech fright
- •Delivering the Speech
- •Using Your Body to Communicate
- •Dimensions of Nonverbal Communication
- •Adapting Nonverbal Behavior to Your Presentations
- •References
- •Contents
Delivering a Lecture
Sample A
But there’s another completely different approach though to what Received Pronunciation is. That is to ask what do people consider to be good in pronunciation? What characteristics do they admire, what characteristics do they imitate or, looking at it from the other point of view what characteristics are stigmatized disapproved of regarded as ugly, regarded as undesirable.
Sample B
'Intonation is also something, | which is ex'tremely difficult for learners of English. 'Intonation is a 'wide ˙wide area. So, 'which features of 'intonation can we focus ˙on to 'help ˙speakers be 'more intelligible? 'Which ˙features are es'sential for 'international com'munication in English?
Making a Political Speech
Sample A
My 'Government will 'also continue | to 'work to pre'serve and modernize | the con'ventional 'forces in 'Europe Treaty. 'During their 'presidency in the 'Western ˙European Union next year | they will 'work to enhance that 'organization’s effectiveness. Preventing the 'proliferation of weapons of ↑mass destruction | re'mains a priority. My 'Government will 'introduce ˙legislation | to 'ratify the 'chemical weapons convention.
Sample B
'Madam Speaker 'noone who 'knows my 'right honorable friend | will have been re'motely surprised | at the 'quality of his 'excellent speech this afternoon. 'I have | 'sat a'longside my 'right honorable friend | 'often enough at ↑international meetings to 'know his work. And 'I can 'tell the House | that 'time after 'time after time.
Making Business Presentation
Sample A
The other two sectors are long life milk | and milk drinks. It’s 'interesting to see that the 'long life sector has 'risen from 5 % - '13 % - a sig'nificant rise | considering initial consumer resistance | to this type of milk. And finally the milk ˙drinks have remained pretty stable | just increasing by 1 %.
Sample B
'Let’s ˙start with re'muneration. Obviously 'this inc'ludes both financial and ''non-financial compensation. Turning first to pay | our goal is to be in the 'top ten per cent | in terms of salary paid. 'This means | that 'we pre˙fer to pay our people a bit more ''money. As the result we can’t afford to take ˙on as ''many employees as our competitors.
Advertising
Sample A
Unique || with an 'inner fire. There’s ''something ''irresistible | about natural beauty. And there is 'no mistaking the brilliance that | lasts forever.
Sample B
''Blur || with the ''universal | from the 'new album ‘The ''Great Es''cape’. ''Fifteen 'new ''songs |including the ''number one ''single | ‘''Country ''House’ … the ‘''Great Es''cape’! The 'Album of the year! From ‘Blur’.
Focus on:
Try and listen to the extracts from “Pygmalion” to consider the expressive function of tempo and loudness. Concentrate on the degree of variability. Observe various varieties of the pitch patterns, rate and volume that help convey a range of meaning, interest and association. Practise extracts together and get ready to stage it.
“Pygmalion” by Bernard Shaw.
Extracts from a play
The main characters of the play are as follows:
Henry Higgins: a Professor of Phonology
Colonel Pickering: his friend and colleague, also a language expert
Eliza Doolittle: a Cockney flower-seller