Polite/Impolite Intonation, Prepositional Phrases and Differences between Wharf, Pier, Dock, Harbour ...

Week 17^th – 20^th June

Hi, how are you doing?

This week we just corrected our ‘use of English’ exercise. The headings were ‘Mystery of the deep’, ‘Bicycle Town’, ‘Insects and Camouflage’, The Emperor’s Villa’, ‘Table for Two’ and ‘Interactive Movies’.

As usual, we had to tackle word building, rewriting and gapped sentences.

And we practised intonation in polite requests.

Remember that intonation and stress mean a lot when we are speaking. They can completely change the meaning of what we are saying. Even if you use a polite structure such as: “I wonder if you could possibly tell me the way to the station” – extremely polite, by the way – if you use a flat intonation, it loses its meaning and you’ll come across as somebody who has just memorized that sentence, out of emotion.

Notice the intonation as well as the word stressed in the following examples given in this exercise. Polite / impolite Intonation

Would you like to practise idioms and prepositional phrases with quizzes? You can do it on this link  Prepositional Phrase Quiz

For Eduardo’s information; I think you’ll find this article interesting!

What’s the difference between dock, wharf, pier, port …? http://www.theshippinglawblog.com/2011/10/what-is-difference-between-quay-pier.html

Remember that we are having 2-hour lessons both days next week, in order to make up for the class we missed the week before the last.

Have a nice weekend! See you on Tuesday!!!