Welcome! Usain Bolt!
I am pleased to
have you in my Monday Euphony Presentation Class. In your Moojuk history, not a
day goes by without delivering presentations on the stage, not a week goes by
without being on the stage, especially in my class. All your blood and sweat
for having your English skill improved soon pay off. And this will become a
driving force to get ahead in your lifetime in not only Moojuk, but also in
your department.
Ahead of
beginning my comments, I would like to explain the purpose of this class. It
was expressly designed for checking each person’s presentation
manner on the stage. On Mondays, presenters would convey what they had
memorized during a week. Keeping gestures, pronunciation, stress and chunk
between words in check comes to a quantum leap of your English Presentation
Skill. Let me allow check out these matters.
<Pronunciation>
Please imitate each word by listening to voice records on the
following site.
http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary
From this momentum on, I am going to
explain how to pronounce each word, more than how to make each alphabet sound
correctly.
C[ou]ntry
Here are
alphabets ‘ou’ which sound like ‘ㅓ’.
Use
When
it is taking a role as Noun, ‘Se’ should be pronounced as like ‘스’. If this word is Verb, ‘Se’ is voiced like ‘즈’.
Reign
It
has same pronunciation with the word ’Rain’.
[F]orm
For pronouncing
Alphabet ‘F’, your jaw is in need of opening nearly closed. The upper side of your
bottom lip is pressed a bit strong by the bottom of the top teeth. And then you
need to push air out of your mouth between the top teeth and your lips bitten
by the top teeth, voicing ‘F’.
Ad[a]pt
‘A’ in this word sounds like ‘ㅐ’.
Acc[o]mpany
The alphabet ‘o’
in this word sounds ‘ㅓ’, not ‘ㅗ’. Keep it in mind.
1446
When reading
four digits of the year, its intonation goes like this. In the case of ‘1446’, its voice
should be raised at the end of the first ‘4’. I point the red colored number.
Then pronouncing 4 with the same pitch of former one come after, and you should
lower your pitch at the end of ‘6’. I talk about the yellow colored number. I
will visualize its intonation as same as follows.
1 4 4 6
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<Long Vowel Sound & Stress>
From now on,
rather than showing each phonetic alphabet, I will let you know stress and long
vowel sound on words with simple method.
Red colored character = It is the alphabet you ought to put stress on.
Underlined
character = It is the
alphabet you must voice long vowel sound.
Uneducated, Character, Everyone
<Ending Sound>
No missed ending sounds were found. Good job! However, there was
grammatical error in one sentence.
‘, have been many who, having something that they wish to put into
words, have been unable to express-‘
The words highlighted
in red, ‘Be unable to’ is common expression has a same meaning of ‘Cannot’, Keep
it in mind.
<Intonation>
I could find
little errors in your intonation. Excellent!
<Manner>
As I know, it was the first time to deliver your presentation in
Monday Euphony class! You performed well. Especially, your folded hands were
placed on your belly. And your head was calcified giving audience sense of comfortableness.
Good job!
<Mission>
The first story that I had memorized in this institute
is ‘Invention of the Korean Alphabet’. I am still having a fond memory of this
story. The sentences were got to my heart, and these linger long and I am definitely
sure that this will be implemented in my heart forever. Let us practice the
preface at our ease, and adapt them to our daily use.
Making
friends in my class is next mission you have to complete. Studying alone in
Moojuk would be rough and thorny path. While giving comment to your classmate,
try cracking funny joke, and become their friend. Let us see next week!
What better way
is there to enhance your English in a short time than to attend Euphony
Classes, especially Monday Class? Please be on the stage on upcoming Mondays. I
cannot thank you enough for all that you have done in my class. See you next
week!