When you want to correct something someone said, you can reply using sentence with the right information. For example, Núria enters a shop where the shop assistant is an old woman. Núria asks for two pears and two oranges. The woman, after preparing two pears, asks her if she wants two lemons. Núria tells her that it is not the case, and that she wants oranges.
Núria: No! TARONGES!
Listen again to the sentence you have just heard. Listen to the melody of the sentence: the voice tone rises sharply in the last stressed syllable of the sequence (-ron-) and then falls in the last syllable (-ges).
Now, imagine that Núria asks for one marrow instead of oranges. Listen and watch the example.
Now pronounce a sentence with the same corrective intonation. Imagine that you enter a shop where the shop assistant is an old woman. She doesn’t hear you well when you ask for strawberries and she asks you if you want lemons. You answer: “No! Maduixes!”.
Listen to the following sentences and decide if the intonation is the same you heard in the sentence of the initial video.
Listen to these sentences and decide if their intonation is appropriate for the context.