In the last segment, we discussed how you can use your intonation to make other people hear what you want to say, not only think and analyze and understand, but make them on a boat audibly feel your message and make them moved and influenced by their message. Thanks. Thanks to the way that you intonate your English now, in this segment, we'll focus on integrating questions. And this topic is very interesting, because for example, if you speak Spanish, you will find that Spanish questions and Spanish affirmations can be exactly the same. The only difference is the intonation at the end. That's what lets you know, if you are making a question, or if you're making an affirmation, right?

So in Spanish, if we say, let's go to the movies, that can be a question, let's go to the movies or information. Let's go to the movies. In English, we have a completely different situation. Because as soon as I say my first word, you already know if I'm asking a question, or making a statement or an affirmation, right, let's see. Do you is this What's your information? Of course a question right?

Can I was to would they? What about I would You see immediately you know that this time, I'm going to make a statement and not a question. So in English questions are a matter of structure and not intonation. Now, this is great news for us, because these allow us to make different intonations in our questions, which we can't do in Spanish. Now, if you don't know this, chances are that you are making your questions exactly the same as you do in Spanish, with intonation at the end, going up at the end, right? So do you like to go to the movies?

Do you like pizza? What do you like to eat? Right It's, it's okay. People understand it, and people know it's a question. But if we practice a different ways of making questions in English, it will add an extra spice extra flavor. To our English speech.

All right, so now let's look at the basics of how to integrate a question in English. If you go online and look for information about integrating questions, you'll find that everybody recommends incarnating the questions in two different ways. One is the questions that start with an auxiliary. Now, I don't like these words like auxiliaries and bears now, so don't worry about them. Just remember auxiliaries are words like do doors can shoot, wood, could, etc. So if the question starts with artillery, do you like can I go, could we pay etc.

You should enter Nate with and authorize at the end of the question. Do you like the kind of like in Spanish you're doing? Right? Would you like to go to the movies? Can I ask you for our pencil? Good.

Have you seen the Lord of the Rings movie? So very simple, right? Just make an all boards inflection at the end of your question like you do in English in Spanish. Now, if the question starts with words like what, where, when, how which hold? You can make your intonation a little bit different. For example, what do you like to do on Sundays?

Do you notice how I'm coming down when I finish my question instead of coming up? So I'm not saying what Did you like to do on Sundays? But what do you like to do on Sundays? What do you like eating? Where do you like visiting? Notice how different it sounds?

Where do you like visiting? And where do you like visiting? Awesome. So with wh questions, what where when, how which holes? Try to give the ending a little downwards intonation. Right?

What do you think? Do you understand that? Is it easy for you to apply this? With a little practice you'll find that there's no problem with this. This will become automatic very quickly for you. If you focus and practice and pay attention to this for a couple of days, okay, so this is what people say Generally, if you ask your English teacher, maybe they will give you this tip.

Maybe they want because if you think about it, maybe nobody has ever told you that you should improve on work on your pronunciation. Right? When I went to school, English school, actually, I went there for more than 10 years. I was studying English in different schools since I was a little child until I was a young adult. And I don't remember ever, any teacher No matter if they were native from the United States from England from South Africa, or they were a non native English teachers. They never mentioned the importance of intonation.

So my intonation was on conscious. I really don't know how I was entirely, but probably it wasn't powerful, persuasive. Not exciting at all. Maybe you have the same situation, but don't worry, because now you know that you can improve your pronunciation simply by experimenting with these little tips. Right if you combine the previous session of having emotional information with this session of having right and natural questions in English, you'll notice good improvements and changes in how you sound and intonate your English Okay, so now that we have learned the formula and the correct way to integrate questions in English Let me give you an on official tip. This is only my perspective and my ideas.

So feel free to completely ignore the rest of what I'm going to say. But let's try to experiment with it a little bit. I love experimentation. Right? I love following instructions. It helps me a lot.

But every time when I finish reading instructions, I like to experiment and see how I can make these instructions my own. How can I add my little twist, middle style and poche I love this because this helps us develop our own style in pronunciation in fluency, especially in intonation. So my own official tip is always experiment with your intonation, no rules. If you like You will like if you don't, maybe you will never say that thing again. So experimentation is key. Now let's apply this idea of experimentation to the way you internet your questions.

A minute ago, we mentioned that questions in English. If they start with Do you can you move I could we should go up at the end, right? Would you like to go to movies? And if the question starts with a wh question, that's what we're when we're, you should come down at the end. Where do you leave? That's good.

And you should use that little formula to help you integrate your questions. But now let's take it to another level. Let's experiment what happens if you Mix this intonations with the different types of questions. Right? So I can say, What do you like to do? But I also can add an extra information.

What do you like to do? Now it sounds kind of British. I don't know if I would use this in the real life, which is cool. Right? What do you like to do? It's a little different.

Where do you study? Where do you work? And where do you leave? The only thing you need to do is, experiment with your questions. Go up, go down, stay flat, and see how it sounds. You will immediately feel if this is a question that you would like to ask him that way, or if it doesn't really work.

Do you understand what I'm saying? Or do you understand what I'm saying? Right Right. So the point here is to feel free to use the tools that we're talking about in this session and the previous sessions, and mix them all together. And try to detect the results and the combinations that you like. So you can write them down or record them and start applying in your real life.

Good. So now let's go to the exercise for today. So first of all, take out a piece of paper and think about the five most important questions that you need to ask. Maybe you need English for your job. So this question should be related to your work, right? Like, when will the project Be ready?

Or How long do I have To finish my report, or how many meetings we have today or at what time is a presentation with the manager, whatever it is, think of the five most important questions that you need to ask to people in your job to people in your life to people when you're traveling, whatever your needs are, think of that most important need. Imagine yourself in that situation. And try to think of the five most important boys to try to combine the questions some of them should be using wide where when how we chose, some of them should start with do can dos would, can, should, etc. Right down these questions and read Each question at least three times trying to give three different intimations. Right. So the first inclination would be probably upwards.

Right? What kind of company that you work for? The next inclination should be downwards. What kind of company did you work for? And the other one, go crazy. Try to make your own kind of question.

And remember, don't worry if it doesn't work. Don't worry if it sounds ridiculous. We're just experimenting and trying to find new sounds that you have never made before. That could work and that you could implement. So don't worry about the results just go crazy. Right?

What kind of company do you work for? I wouldn't say that. But I'm kind of expanding my vocal range. So I want you to do that with the five questions. As you wrote down so now you know that you can be free to intonate however you want when you're speaking, so that you transmit your emotions more than your thoughts. And also, you now know that questions can be intimated differently in English to give a different sense, a different feeling and different impact every time you ask a question.

So, practice as much as you can. Enjoy your practices. And remember what you learn, write down the results that you enjoy. Good. So, this is all for now. And I will see you on the final stage of step number three, to close our intimation segment.

Enjoy your practices. I'll see you soon