Pedagogical prioritiesBegin with the 3T theory first, i.e., tonality, tonicity and tone and then move on to the pitch contour.Teaching ProceduresPresentation-present the basic principles of tonality, tonicity and tone.Practice-repeat the intonation patterns and practice with predetermined, focused dialogues or passages.Production-produce the real life conversation with an appropriate intonation.It will be helpful to associate the nuclear tones with sentence types, a popular idea among the leaners is that statements often said with a fall, and questions with a rise. Although there is an element of truth in this generalization. It is far from the complete truth. In English, statements may have a fall, but they may also have a rise or fall rise. Questions may have a rise, but they may also have a fall or a rise fall.