Lesson 14 - Using sentence stress and intonation to convey a writer's message

Using stress and intonation

In the brief text below, use capital letters to indicate the most important words which the writer would probably emphasize in order to focus his audience's attention on them. Then go through the text again and mark with ↗ the words where the voice tune would rise, and with ↘ the words where it would fall.

Then read the paragraph aloud, remembering to pronounce all the unstressed words very quickly and softly. Only the stressed words should stand out.