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Paul, this is exactly what we were looking for. Nicely done. :)

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This is an interactive lesson that encourages the students to be creative and use natural language. The focus is on intonation and sentence stress, and can be adapted to suit your class as need be. Optionally, you could download this plain 4 slide powerpoint presentation with teacher lead  intonation and sentence stress exercises. The presentation itself is easily adaptable and follows the suggested structure of this lesson.
Lesson aims:
To practise intonation
To practise sentence stress
To create a dialogue using natural English
Stage one – Mingle
Write the word “Hello” on the board (or use the powerpoint).
Ask your students what they think is more important; what you say or how you say it.
You’ll get various answers – mostly along these lines:
•Can change/affect the meaning of a sentence.
•Can cause misunderstandings.
•Is as important as your choice of words.
Get your students standing up and point to the word Hello.
Ask your students to walk around saying Hello to one another, in the following ways:
•As if it were to their boss.
•to their best friend.
•to an attractive man/woman at the bar.
•to a six month old baby.
Now get your students to sit down. Ask them to say Hello in one of the ways they were just demonstrating – ask the rest of the class to decide which version of hello it was.
It’s a demonstration of the implicit meaning ontonation can give to a word or sentence.
Stage two -Hum what’s next
To get the students used to how different words can be stressed in the sentence show them the sentence:
I love your mother’s cooking.
I love your mother’s cooking.
I love your mother’s cooking.
I love your mother’s cooking.
I love your mother’s cooking.
The bold text indicates where the stress lies.
Ask the student’s to mimick your intonation  as you stress different words in the sentence. Rather than repeating the words, I’ve found it to be more effective if they hum. If they hum they won’t focus on pronunciation and are less likely to stress the wrong words.
Now ask them if the meaning changes when different words are stressed. Potential meanings are listed below (numbers represent the first, second, third, fourth and fifth words):
Personally. Someone else does not love the cooking.
Emphasis of natural meaning.
A particular mother. I don’t, for example, like his mother’s cooking.
Particular family member. I don’t, for example, like your father’s cooking.
Aspect of mother you love. I, for example, hate your mother but love her cooking.
Model an answer for your students and ask them to complete the rest of the implied meanings in pairs. Make sure they repeat the sentence out loud so they can hear the stress.

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In linguistics, prosody is concerned with those elements of speech that are not individual phonetic segments but are properties of syllables and larger units of speech. These are linguistic functions such as intonation, tone, stress, and rhythm.

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prosody...the patterns of stress and intonation in a language.