Homework
- Start writing your essay.
- (Email me your essay topic if you were absent today.)
- Your essay should
- be between 800-1,500 words
- be in academic format (double-spaced),
- have at least 5 paragraphs (introduction, body and conclusion)
- have a bibliography – a list of all the books, articles, websites, movies, videos, etc. you read or watched in your research.
NB: the makeup class for cancelled week 6 will be on January 10th, not December 13th or 20th.
Today’s class
- Presentation on “Phonemes and parts of speech”, by Ms. Sugihara and Yoshioka.
- Presentation on “Intonation”, by Ms Makiyama and Odahara.
- In the last 20-30 years, there has developed a strange way of talking among young native English speakers: they raise their intonation at the end of non-question (declarative) sentences. Here’s a comedian demonstrating this and asking why. It sounds like a lack of confidence, as if the speaker isn’t really sure, or wants to appear unsure rather than confident.
httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SCNIBV87wV4
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