Introduction to Intonation | English Pronunciation Lesson | Elemental English This lesson is from the Elemental English pronunciation series on Intonation: Listen to the audio!: Podcast: Play in new window Speaking and understanding English doesn’t just come from using correct grammar and vocabulary. Example The following two sentences contain the same words. 1) “She got a dog.” 2) “She got a dog?!” In these two simple sentences, the focus word of the sentence–the word that gets the most emphasis–is “dog”. But what happened with the sound of the focus word? In sentence one, the intonation went DOWN to indicate the completion of the thought. In sentence two, the intonation went way UP, to indicate surprise. The patterns of ups and downs of your voice (and your pitch) on and after the focus word–which is usually at the end of a sentence or question–is called intonation. In English, there are three intonation patterns: Rise Full fall Partial fall Listen and Repeat the following examples of intonation patterns. To complete a thought | FALL “I got a dog.” | FALL “How are you?”
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motivation 'Selfie' shows power of moms to influence girls' body image - TODAY.com Mom topics A. Pawlowski TODAY contributor Feb. 19, 2014 at 10:59 AM ET Turn the camera on yourself and you just might discover a new family picture. In “Selfie,” a short documentary sponsored by Dove and released Monday at the Sundance Institute's Women at Sundance brunch, teenage girls and their moms are challenged to capture their own natural beauty by taking candid photos of themselves on their smartphones. #LoveYourSelfie: Show us how you see your beauty The film also explores how mothers can pass down insecurities to their daughters. “The selfie on the surface seems really simple but when you think about how many selfies people take and then delete or they filter or they somehow change before they put it out there, I really wanted to explore the honest selfie,” Cynthia Wade, who directed the film, told TODAY’s Savannah Guthrie on Wednesday. “We have the power in our own hands to really redefine beauty.” Her mom, in turn, was surprised by how much she influenced her daughter’s body image.
Old English Old English (Ænglisc, Anglisc, Englisc) or Anglo-Saxon[1] is an early form of the English language that was spoken and written by the Anglo-Saxons and their descendants in parts of what are now England and southern and eastern Scotland between at least the mid-5th century and the mid-12th century. What survives through writing represents primarily the literary register of Anglo-Saxon. Adjectives, pronouns and (sometimes) participles agreed with their antecedent nouns in case, number and gender. Finite verbs agreed with their subject in person and number. Gender in nouns was grammatical, as opposed to the natural gender that prevails in modern English. From the 9th century, Old English experienced heavy influence from Old Norse, a member of the related North Germanic group of languages. History[edit] The distribution of the primary Germanic dialect groups in Europe in around AD 1: The history of Old English can be subdivided into: Influence of other languages[edit] Latin influence[edit]
Phrasal Verb Dictionary To look up a phrasal verb, click a letter in the menu. The formats below are used in phrasal verb definitions.separable verbs: (talk * into)inseparable verbs: (run into +)object can be in both positions: (look * up +) 1. A phrasal verb is a verb plus a preposition or adverb which creates a meaning different from the original verb. Example: I ran into my teacher at the movies last night. run + into = meet He ran away when he was 15. run + away = leave home 2. Example: He suddenly showed up. 3. Example: I made up the story. 4. Example: I talked my mother into letting me borrow the car. 5. Example: I ran into an old friend yesterday. 6. Example: I looked the number up in the phone book. 7. Example: I looked the number up in the phone book. Also try our Verb + Preposition Dictionary to look up standard verb + prepostion combinations. Your personal online English school.
Lena Dunham brushes off Vogue cover controversy: 'What's the problem?' - TODAY.com Gael Fashingbauer Cooper TODAY 6 hours ago Brian Williams would like to make one thing clear: He's never said "hippity." Jimmy Fallon presented another remix of Williams' "NBC Nightly News" broadcasts on Monday night's "Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon," pulling out individual words and editing them together to make it appear that the anchor was rapping Snoop Dogg's 1996 Grammy-nominated hit, "Gin and Juice." A February rap remix of Williams' words put to Sugar Hill Gang's 1979 classic "Rapper's Delight" has 8.9 million YouTube views. "It's all anyone mentions to me anymore," Williams said to Fallon of the compilation raps. In addition to insisting "I've never said hippity," Williams pointed out that it's a little creepy to know that a Fallon staffer (film research coordinator John MacDonald) is poring over his every recorded sentence, literally putting words in his mouth. Fallon also mentioned his numerous rap nicknames for Williams, including BriWi, B-Willy, B-Dubs, and Honey Bri-Bri.
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Phrasal Verbs List 200 common phrasal verbs, with - meaning - example sentence ask somebody out invite on a date Brian asked Judy out to dinner and a movie. ask around ask many people the same question I asked around but nobody has seen my wallet. add up to something equal Your purchases add up to $205.32. back something up reverse You'll have to back up your car so that I can get out. back somebody up support My wife backed me up over my decision to quit my job. blow up explode The racing car blew up after it crashed into the fence. blow something up add air We have to blow 50 balloons up for the party. break down stop functioning (vehicle, machine) Our car broke down at the side of the highway in the snowstorm. break down get upset The woman broke down when the police told her that her son had died. break something down divide into smaller parts Our teacher broke the final project down into three separate parts. break in force entry to a building Somebody broke in last night and stole our stereo.
Here Are the Unretouched Images From Lena Dunham's Vogue Shoot My boyfriend is an amateur/hobbyist photographer and I'm always amazed at how much Photoshop can do for a photo. Whether you start with a bad picture or a really good picture, you can do some amazing things. That's pretty much what I'm seeing here, a bunch of meh photographs turned in to some pretty great pictures with the use of improved lighting, saturation, lines, etc. The changes to Dunham herself don't do much to the pictures and I'm actually sort of impressed with how little they messed with her. Also, holy crap is Annie Liebowitz overrated!
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Cops block Wall Street protesters: News24: World: News New York - Hundreds of people marched on Saturday near Wall Street in New York in a failed attempt to occupy the heart of global finance to protest greed, corruption and budget cuts. Plans by protesters to turn Lower Manhattan into an "American Tahrir Square" was thwarted when police blocked all the streets near the New York Stock Exchange and Federal Hall in Lower Manhattan. The demonstrators had planned to stake out Wall Street until their anger over a financial system they say favours the rich and powerful was heard. "The one thing we all have in common is that We Are The 99 Percent that will no longer tolerate the greed and corruption of the one percent," said a statement on the website Occupy Wall Street. By noon, about 700 people, many carrying backpacks and sleeping bags, had gathered near Wall Street to search for a place to camp amid a heavy police presence. Righteous indignation The protesters who did arrive were full of zeal and righteous indignation. Economic crisis
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