In today's class we :
- Discussed the 3 things that make up a dialect
-Grammar (rules)
-Pronunciation (focus of this class)
- Re-capped class 1
- Looked at syllables and different rules of syllables
- Discussed the use of stress in the English language and how it can be used for danger, emphasis, questions and other things such as sarcasm
- Talked about the AQI ("Australian Question Intonation")
- We looked at 2 new monopthongs /e/ (bed, leg) and /iː/ (meat, leave)
- Did an exercise separating different words into the correct categories of their vowel sound
- Did an exercise on analysing language (Fawlty Towers...episode). Click here to download all of the episodes