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Unit 4 Chinese folk art
Pronunciation
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Activity 1: Listen and discuss
The little journalist of our school makes a report about the Folk Art Week. Let me read the first two sentences for you twice. Please listen carefully for the difference.
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Activity 1: Listen and discuss
Try to pick out the stressed word sand make comparisons. Then discuss with your partners and summarise which parts of speech we usually stress in the following sentence.
nouns
main verbs
adjectives
adverbs
articles
prepositions
conjunctions
pronouns
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Activity 1: Listen and discuss
Try to underline the stressed words in the rest sentences and read the report with correct stress.
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Try to underline the stressed words. Then read this sentence.
Activity 2: Read and comprehend
Now, let me read this sentence again and please pay attention to the stress.
▪ Zhao Yue smiles when she finishes a
beautiful picture of bamboo.
Have you got the most stressed word?
Do you understand what I want to tell you by stressing “Zhao Yue”?
How about this: Zhao Yue smiles when she finishes a beautiful picture of bamboo.
Good. If I want to emphasise that Zhao Yue does not look sad, could you help me read the sentence with proper stress?
What if I want to emphasise that it is a picture of bamboo not any other thing?
▪ Zhao Yue smiles when she finishes a
beautiful picture of bamboo.
▪ Zhao Yue smiles when she finishes a
beautiful picture of bamboo.
▪ Zhao Yue smiles when she finishes a
beautiful picture of bamboo.
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Activity 3: Read and practise
Sandy: Where are you going, Millie?
Millie: I’m going to the supermarket.
Sandy: What are you going to buy?
Millie: My scissors are broken. I’m going to buy a new pair.
Sandy: I need some pens. Can I go with you?
Millie: Of course.
Try to underline the you think may be stressed.
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Activity 3: Read and practise
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Activity 3: Read and practise
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Activity 4: Challenge game
Circle the words that you think may be stressed in the sentence below.
All the students can have a close look at the crafts and enjoy their beauty.
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Activity 4: Challenge game
Read out the sentence aloud according to the stress above.
All the students can have a close look at the crafts and enjoy their beauty.
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Activity 4: Challenge game
Listen to the sentence and pick out the word(s) stressed specially.
All the students can have a close look at the crafts and enjoy their beauty.
What does the student want to tell us with the stress above?
All the students can have a close look at the crafts and enjoy their beauty.
All the students can have a close look at the crafts and enjoy their beauty.
What if we want to express our love of these crafts?
What if we want to tell that we can look at the crafts. rather than pictures?
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Activity 4: Challenge game
Choose the most likely question according to the stress of the answer sentence.
Who can have a close look at the crafts and enjoy the beauty?
All the students can have a close look at the crafts and enjoy their beauty.
How many students can have a close look at the crafts and enjoy the beauty?
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Activity 4: Challenge game
The school little journalists are interviewing some students about their feelings towards our Folk Art Week. There are some sentences students used in the interview. We have some challenges about stress in these sentences. We form groups of seven to complete the challenges of each group. The group that finishes the challenges of its own group in the shortest time is the winner.
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1. Choose a short English passage that you like and then mark the words that you think should be stressed. ( Required )
2. Design three riddle guessing games. Rules: Present a sentence, mark the stressed words and then let other students guess the special information that the sentence intends to convey through such stress. ( Required )
3. Form a group with 3-4 students. Make a short English video. Perform a simple dialogue scene and show different meanings by changing the stress of words in sentences. ( Optional )
Homework
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Thank you!
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2024
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