rhythm读英语时需注意的节奏

Rhythm of Speech (话语节奏)
Practice: Listen to the following pairs of sentences. Read them with your partner together — begin at the same tiຫໍສະໝຸດ Baidue: one read the short one and the other read the long one. 1. Keep dogs, cats and snakes. Keep the dogs, and the cats and the snakes. 2. Keep pigs, cows, and sheep. Keep the pigs, and the cows and the sheep. 3. Grow beans, dates and rice. Grow some beans, and some dates and some rice. 4. Buy maps, pens and books. Buy me some maps, and some pens and some books.
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The Sloth
A Bradypus, or sloth, am I I live a life of ease Contented not to do or die But idle as I please. I have three toes on either foot Or half a ‘doz on both With leaves and fruits and shoots to eat How sweet to be a sloth!
Rhythm of Speech (话语节奏)
Try the following: tapping while speaking
敕勒歌 敕勒川, 阴山下， 天似穹庐， 笼盖四野。 天苍苍， 野茫茫， 风吹草低见牛羊。
Rhythm of Speech (话语节奏)
Try the following: tapping while speaking Buy milk, jam and bread. Buy me some milk, some butter and some bread. Black or white? It was black and it was white. soft and light It’s soft and it’s light. Dan and Sue It was Danny and it was Susie. bread and milk Some bread and some milk. get a purse. Get us her purse. a dark room It was dark in the room. cold winter It was cold in the winter.
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For days and days among the trees I sleep and dream and doze (thank you, very much) Just gently swaying in the breeze Suspended by my toes While eager beavers overhead Rush through the undergrowth I watch the clouds beneath my feet How sweet to be a sloth While eager beavers overhead Rush through the undergrowth The door’s not shut on my genius But I just don’t have the time No I just don’t have the time. No he just don’t have the time
The world is such a cheerful place When viewed from upside down: It makes a rise of every fall A smile of every frown I watch the fleeting flutter-by Of butterfly and moth And think of all the things I’d try if I were not a sloth:
Rhythm of Speech (话语节奏)
Practice: Act out the following dialogue with your partner. Gloria: Excuse me, John. Are you at the office this afternoon? John: Yes, from 3 o’clock. Gloria: Oh, I was wondering if you could help me with the interpretation of some statistics in my research project. John: Oh dear, I’ve got too much work to do today. Gloria: It won’t take long. Just a few minutes. John: I’m sorry, but I really can’t this afternoon. I really must finish some work for tomorrow. Gloria: Never mind. John: How about Wednesday? Gloria: Yes, that’d be fine. Thanks. See you on Wednesday then.
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Spoken:
Oh, I would climb the very highest Himalayas Be among the greatest ever tennis players Win at chess, or marry a princess Or study hard and be an eminent professor I could be a millionaire Play the clarinet, travel everywhere Learn to cook, catch a crook Win a war then write a book about it I could paint a Mona Lisa I could be another Ceasar Compose an oratorio that was sublime Oh, the door’s not shut On my genius but, I just don’t have the time
Rhythm of Speech (话语节奏)
Requirements for a good English rhythm: 1. giving proper emphasis to stressed syllables. 2. weakening unstressed words and syllables and obscuring the vowels in most of them (use weak forms when possible); squeezing the unstressed syllables together and saying them quickly 3. organizing words properly into word groups by means of pauses 4. linking naturally sounds between words within the same word group when possible
Rhythm of Speech (话语节奏)
Rhythm — the timing pattern (the regular beats) of successive syllables. Rhythmic patterns in different languages: syllable-timed languages (e.g. Chinese) : every syllable is given a strong beat and is spoken within about the same length of time; stress-timed languages (e.g. English): every stressed syllable is given a strong beat and is spoken within about the same length of time. The rhythmic pattern in English — based on stress; a rhythm unit is formed by a stressed syllable, together with unstressed syllables which may come before that stress and/or after it.
Rhythm of Speech (话语节奏)
5. Buy desks, chairs, and boards. Buy some more desks, and some chairs and some boards. 6. Buy meat, fish, and fruit. Buy me some meat, and some fish and some fruit. 7. Buy wine, beer, and juice. Buy me some wine, and some beer and some juice. 8. Buy pears, grapes, and sweets. Buy me some pears, some grapes, and some sweets. 9. Get water, tea, and coffee. Get me some water, and some tea and some coffee. 10. Get bread, cream, and jam. Get me some bread, and some cream and some jam.
Rhythm of Speech (话语节奏)
Chief features of rhythm units in English:
1. Each rhythm unit contains one (and only one) stressed syllable, with or without unstressed syllables before or after it. 2. Each rhythm unit is spoken in almost the same length of time as the other rhythm units. It does not matter that some rhythm units may contain more syllables than others. 3. The words in one rhythm unit are grouped together and are spoken with no pause or break between them. A pause is usually made at the end of a rhythm unit. 4. Within a rhythm unit, unstressed syllables that come before the stressed syllable are quite short, whereas unstressed syllables after the stress are relatively longer: e.g. It was a 'cold De'cember 'morning.