2. CLASSROOM
STANDARDS:
• Sit properly.
• Listen attentively.
• Raise your hand if you want to ask or answer a
question.
• Minimize going outside of the classroom
• Do not talk when someone is talking
• Have fun in learning.
3.
4. WORD STRESS
•The emphasis that may be given to a
syllable.
•The degree of force with which a
syllable or word is uttered
5. SYLLABLE
• A unit of sound made from a single vowel or single
vowel/consonant combination
• Every word is made from syllable
• Each word has one, two, three or more syllables
Example: e-le-men-ta-ry es-ca-la-tor
ed-u-ca-tion-al
7. FIVE RULES FOR STRESSED WORDS
Rule #1:
With most nouns and adjectives with 2
syllables, the stress is on the first syllable
Example:
PROgress ENgine INcrease
REcord PREsentPREtty
8. FIVE RULES FOR STRESSED WORDS
Rule #2:
With most verbs with 2 syllables,
the stress is on the second syllable
Example:
preSENT reCORD adMIT
anNOUNCE beGIN imPRESS
9. FIVE RULES FOR STRESSED WORDS
Rule #3:
Words ending in -TION, -SION, -CIAN
the stress is usually on the second last
(penultimate) syllable
Example:
eduCAtion concenTRAtion demonsTRAtion
muSIcian maGIcian perMISsion
10. FIVE RULES FOR STRESSED WORDS
Rule #4:
Words ending in –IC, the stress is usually on
the second last syllable
Example:
acaDEmic eLECtric ecoNOmic
draMAtic reaLIStic eLECtric
11. FIVE RULES FOR STRESSED WORDS
Rule #5:
Words ending in –EE and -OO the stress is
usually on the last syllable
Example:
employEE guarantEE shampOO
tattOO tabOO
Exception: comMITtee COFfee
12. Rule #6:
Words ending in –CY , -TY , –PHY , -GY and -AL
the stress is
usually on the third from end (ante-
penultimate) syllable
Example:
deMOcracy phoTOgraphy geOLogy
aNAlogy CRItical geoLOgical
FIVE RULES FOR STRESSED WORDS
13. NUMBERS
•Every multiple of ten, the stress is on
the first syllable
twentythirty forty fifty sixty
seventy eighty
