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This unit is about teaching phonology and pronunciation. We start by learning what intonation is and the three different types: rise/fall. fall/rise and flat. We also see different techniques to teach it. I found this very useful because I had no idea how I would be able to teach it. Nonsense words, humming, singing or using gestures are all very good techniques. Next we look at stress . We learn that there are different rules on where to put the stress for example two syllable nouns have the stress on the first syllable. This was very valuable because now I know the rules and it will be easier to explain it to my students. We also learn way of teaching it. The next part explores pronunciation. We learn the phonetic alphabet which was extremely long and hard to learn but incredibly useful as many of my students use it and expect me to use it too. We then learn places and manners of articulations . How are where are sounds produced. We are also explained ways of teaching pronunciation for example tongue twisters, dictation, visuals ..etc
This unit was by far one of the hardest units because it included things that I don't generally teach or even think about for example diagrams of the mouth, but this unit was very interesting and I learnt a lot from including the phonetic alphabet and ways of teaching pronunciation and the rules for stress.
