When you want to convince someone, or when you want this person to do you a favor, you can use an exhortative sentence (which often starts with words like: Va! (Come on) or Sisplau! (Please). For example, Núria want to go to the cinema with Maria and she asks her so. Maria answers that she has a lot of work to do and that she can’t join her. Núria knows that Maria can postpone her work and try to convince her.
Núria: Va, vine...
Listen again to the sentence you have just heard. Listen to the melody of the sentence: the voice tone falls in the last stressed syllable of the sequence (vi-) and then rises and falls again in the last syllable (-ne).
Now, imagine that Núria wants Maria to have lunch with her. Listen and watch the example.
Now, pronounce a sentence with the same exhortative intonation. Imagine that you are speaking with a friend. You want him to come to the cinema with you. You have asked him plenty of times before and he always said no. Now you ask him again and say: “Va…Vine al cine…” (Come on… Come to the cinema…). After practicing, listen how it is pronounced.
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.