March Lesson Developing Oral Communication Skills
March Lesson Developing Oral Communication Skills
March Lesson Developing Oral Communication Skills
2 Reciting from memory 3.2.3 Extemporaneous speaking 3.2.4 Impromptu speaking 3.3 Other skills 3.3.1 Emceeing 3.3.2 Presentation skills
At a hotel somewhere in Asia. The call was recorded and later published in the Far Eastern Economic Review. Here goes.... Room Service (RS): Morny. Ruin sorbees. Guest (G):Sorry, I thought I dialed roomservice RS: Rye..Ruin sorbees..morny! Djewish to odor sunteen?? G: Uh..yes..I'd like some bacon and eggs
RS: G: RS: G:
Ow July den? What?? Ow July den?...pry, boy, pooch? Oh, the eggs! How do I like them? Sorry, scrambled please. RS: Ow July dee baychem...crease? G: Crisp will be fine. RS : Hokay. An San tos? G: What? RS: San tos. July San tos?
G: RS: G: S:
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RS: G: RS: G:
I don't think so No? Judo one toes?? I feel really bad about this, but I don't know what 'judo one toes' means. Toes! Toes!...why djew Don Juan toes? Ow bow english mopping we bother? English muffin!! I've got it! You were saying 'Toast.' Fine. Yes, an english muffin will be fine. We bother? No...just put the bother on the side. Wad? I mean butter...just put it on the side.
S: G: RS: G: RS:
Copy? Sorry? Copy...tea...mill? Yes. Coffee please, and that's all. One Minnie. Ass ruin torino fee, strangle ache, crease baychem, tossy singlish mopping we bother honey sigh, and copy....rye?? G: Whatever you say RS: Tendjewberrymud G: You're welcome.
Refers to the particular way by which the sounds of a language are commonly produced in actual speech.
For vowel sounds, it is important to know the:
Part of the tongue raised highest Shape of the lips Position of the tongue Articulators Point of articulation Manner of articulation
Places of articulation
Consonant
sounds*
Exercises:
fat telephone furnish periphery afar photograph TOEFL philosophy fulfill phosphorous
Read the following word pairs, be careful to make the distinction between the two sounds. three free thin sin Thor soar pass path both boat fought thought tore Thor moth moss frilled thrilled three free
MacLEOD-QUAYRACHEL-ACHE PETAL-PENAL-WANT-PANT-SLANT: VAN-FAN-RABBLES- GRAND and GRANT? I dont blame you if you cant!
In long words, unstressed vowels even disappear, phenomenon called elision, also known as deletion. Often, these vowels are associated with consonants which can become syllabic. Note the following examples:
The phonetic effect of liaison is to make the connections such that the end sound of one word actually becomes integrated into the sound of the succeeding word. If a word ends in a consonant and is followed by a word beginning with a vowel, the final consonant of the first word becomes the releasing consonant of the next word. Note these examples:
Its an apple. Come in. I give up. She loves him. Meet him.
May I ask? Did you see her? Where is the office? He likes her. I always tie it.
Prosody refers to the overall sound pattern you make for phrases and sentences. As you produce the sequence of consonants and vowel of the words you are putting together, you also overlay a sound contour on the sequence. Without this, your speech will sound like that of the robots or talking computers in old movie-speaking in a monotone, completely expressionless.
Rhythm is the repeating beat of what we say. The beats that make up the rhythm of a sentence are called stresses. Stress is sometimes called accent. English has four stresses: [/] primary ; very strong and very long [^] secondary; strong and long [\] tertiary; weak and short No markweak; very weak and short
How are you? 2. Youre so nice 3. I dontknow. 4. I have the answer. 5. Do you know the answer? 6. Thats a new phone, isnt it? 7. Pleased to meet you. 8. Thats a good school. 9. I learned a lot! 10. Excuse me!
1.
How do I love thee? Let me count the ways. I love thee to the depth and breadth and height My soul can reach, when feeling out of sight For the ends of Being and ideal Grace. I love thee to the level of everyday's Most quiet need, by sun and candle-light. I love thee freely, as men strive for Right; I love thee purely, as they turn from Praise. I love thee with a passion put to use In my old griefs, and with my childhood's faith. I love thee with a love I seemed to lose With my lost saints, --- I love thee with the breath, Smiles, tears, of all my life! --- and, if God choose, I shall but love thee better after death.