Intonation Practice – Item listed in connected speech with successive rising followed by a falling at the end

ENGLISH STUDIES – SPEECH

SECOND TERM 

WEEK 7

PRIMARY 5

TOPIC: Intonation Practice 

PERFORMANCE OBJECTIVES

By the end of the lesson, the pupils should have attained the following objectives (cognitive, affective and psychomotor) and should be able to:

  1. Make sentences using the rising and falling tunes;
  2. Identify rising and falling tune in one another’s speech.

INSTRUCTIONAL MATERIALS

The teacher will teach the lesson with the aid of:

  1. Course book
  2. Other reference material – teacher created sentences, dialogue – dramatising.

METHOD OF TEACHING – Choose a suitable and appropriate methods for the lessons.

Note – Irrespective of choosing methods of teaching, always introduce an activities that will arouse pupil’s interest or lead them to the lessons. 

REFERENCE MATERIALS

  1. Scheme of Work
  2. 9 – Years Basic Education Curriculum
  3. Course Book
  4. All Relevant Material
  5. Online Information

CONTENT OF THE LESSON 

INTONATION PRACTICE 

Intonation practice in item using rising and falling tunes as listed below –

  1. The intonation pattern is that of a rising rising one with a falling pattern at the end;
  2. The intonation pattern is fall, fall, fall throughout – I have a book, a pen, a ruler (rise, rise fall) or I have a book, a pen and a ruler.
Ref – MacMillan Brilliant Primary English 
Book 5
Page 73D

PRESENTATION

  • To deliver the lesson, the teacher adopts the following steps:
  1. To introduce the lesson, the teacher revises the previous lesson. Based on this, he/she asks the pupils some questions;
  2. Provides various list of items and let pupils practise, making sentences with each – plates, cup and saucers; spade and cutlass; pots and pans; men, women and children.
  3. Pupil’s Activities – Make up many list, each containing two, three or four objects; make sentences with each list, using the correct intonation pattern.

CONCLUSION

  • To conclude the lesson for the week, the teacher revises the entire lesson and links it to the following week’s lesson.

LESSON EVALUATION

Pupils to:

  1. Make sentences using the rising and falling tunes.
  2. Use the rising and falling tunes correctly in dialogues.