[franorfulang]

Thanks for your reply. I would like to work on longer utterances with my students, after 8 years of study they should be able to.. in real life they have to use longer sentences too. But I agree that shorter ones are a better starting point and can demonstrate more clearly. However, to teach some kind of 'choice' intonation, it needs to be a bit longer..

The problem I'm having though is deciding how to describe the intonation that will be modelled. Taking your example of an exclamatory 'his name is john!', should I just model it myself, without description, and have this as a model for all exclamatory utturances, or is there actuallly another model/ a range of models for exclamatory intonation, that I should teach. When I read 'is he going to the dentist' out loud, this doesn't sound like a "rising" intonation (whatever that means).