What exactly is a Ben Franklin exercise? See the instructions for it on the exercise page. These exercises are a lot of work, but allow you to really take command of your pronunciation!!

This is an excerpt from the crime drama Castle. Transcript below. This video has lots of questions in it, but not every question goes up in pitch at the end. Notice which ones go up and which ones go down in pitch. What is different about the question and the attitude of the speaker?

Video Text:

• Wait. My people need confirmation on the target's name.
• What did you say?
• The target's name, my people need confirmation.
• Who are you?
• NYPD! Hands up. Not you, Castle.
• Right.
_____________
• You people have no idea what you just stepped into. No idea.
• Why don't you tell us?
• Because you don't want to know. The things that I've seen? Trust me. Ignorance is bliss.
• Who do you work for, the government?
• Well, if not the government, then who?
• What happened to the real Caldwell?
• Dead.
• When?
• Last night.
• That means they know.
• They know about what? About the target? About how you were going to take your shot?
• Who's your target, Hans?
• I spent three weeks in Afghanistan with fire ants crawling on my privates. Somehow I don't think your polite-but-stern routine is going to get you very far. You can ask me whatever you want. But let me tell you what's going to happen here. In just a little while, you will receive a phone call from someone much more important than you. Then they will tell you that there's been a misunderstanding, and you will be instructed to release me. You will do so grudgingly, but you will do so nonetheless. And you will watch me walk out of here, into the night, never to be seen again.