GRIPS Speech Workshop I: intonation and pausing

English Speech I:
Fluency work
Lawrie Hunter
Editor/mentor, GRIPS CPC

Warmup: micro-level pronunciation activities
1. Contrast pairs
2. Tongue twisters
3. Auditory memory
4. Listen and repeat
5. Shadowing
Warm-up (pronunciation work)

1. Rubber baby buggy bumpers
2. Tongue twisters

2. Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers.
If Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers,
Where's the peck of pickled peppers Peter Piper picked?
2. Tongue twisters

How much wood would a woodchuck chuck
if a woodchuck could chuck wood?
2. Tongue twisters

Four furious friends fought for the phone.
2. Tongue twisters

1. First I got up
and then I went to the bathroom
and had a shower.
After that I got dressed
and went to the kitchen.
3. Auditory memory practice

2. Yesterday I had to go to the dentist
so first I brushed my teeth
and then I rode my scooter
to the dentist's office.

3. Before going to bed
I turned off my computer
and set the alarm on my phone
for half past six.
Finally I got in bed
and turned off the light.

4. Listen and repeat
5. Shadowing
When you get the message,
you hang up the phone.

For advanced readers/writers of English as a second
language, the main sound-related issues related to
speaking intelligibly are:
ESL speech issues TODAY’S TOPIC
1. Intonation
2. Pausing
3. Linking
4. Blending

You know what intonation is.
ESL speech issue 1: Intonation

You know what pausing is.
ESL speech issue 2: Pausing

Linking is connecting a word that ends in a consonant
to a word that starts with a vowel.
Examples:
come over => ca-mo-ver to my house.
shut up => shu-tup (British); shuddup (American)
put it in a box => putitina box / pudidina box
the end of the year ===> thee-YEN-dov the year
https://pronuncian.com/introduction-to-linking/
ESL speech issue 3: Linking

Blending:
-when a word ends in a sound and the next word
starts with the very same sound
- it's very hard to tell where one word ends and the
next one starts.
bad day
June ninth
phone number
left turn
orange juice
ESL speech issue 4: Blending

Speech models and recurring self-assessment
1. How often do you speak English?
2. How could you speak English more often?
(read-aloud / memorizing / listen & repeat )
3. How much feedback/monitoring should you have?
4. What kind of feedback is best?
5. What kind of practice material is best?
6. One-way communication vs. interacting
ESL speech improvement strategy

1. Use internet video for speech models
2. Find a video with transcript
3. Listen intelligently
4. Repeat intelligently
5. Record yourself
6. Compare your speech to the model
Hunter’s suggested approach

Choosing a speech model: TED talks*
1 British vs American
2 TED vs movies (topic vs narrative)
3 Native speaker vs non-native
4 Fast vs slow (software: Audacity)
5 Subtitles? e.g. TED in Japanese
http://digitalcast.jp/v/23525/
6 Pausing: much vs little
7 Long text vs short
8 Female speaker vs male
9 Attractive vs boring
*https://www.ted.com/ スーパープレゼンテーション
Activity 1

Using TED talks’ interactive transcript
1 for controlled listening
2 repeated listening
3 listen and repeat
John Koenig TED
Pico Ayer TED
Anne Curzan TED
Lakshmi Pratury TED
Eventually:

Model analysis: listening for pausing
John Koenig TED
Where will he use pausing?
Listen and confirm.
Activity 2:

Model analysis: listening for intonation
John Koenig TED
Where will he place emphasis?
Listen and confirm.
Activity 3:

GRIPS Speech Workshop I: intonation and pausing

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