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Pronunciation and Listening- College Level Students (5/25 question - random)
Author: Dr. Ruth Yontz
Department of Finance
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
www.business.illinois.edu/facultyprofile/faculty_profile.aspx?ID=261
The purpose of this assignment is to assess your listening skills for some major areas of pronunciation--word stress, sentence stress, and end-of-sentence intonation. You will be asked to listen to a clip and then to write or select the best answer.
Your answers should reflect your current level of skills.
1.
Listen to the audio recording. Does the sentence sounds finished or unfinished?
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Finished
Unfinished
2.
Listen to the audio below, and mark the choice that shows the syllable that receives the most stress for the word 'procedure'. (CAPITALS=most stress)
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P R O / c e / d u r e
p r o / C E / d u r e
p r o / c e / D U R E
3.
Listen to the question. Does the sentence have rising or falling intonation?
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Rising
Falling
4.
Listen to the following dialog, between Jane and John, and write down the TWO words
that get the most emphasis
(ONE word for Jane's sentence and one word for John's sentence).
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Jane's sentence:
John's sentence:
5.
Listen to the question. Does the sentence have rising or falling intonation?
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Rising
Falling
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