1. Word and sentence
stress

2. Which of the following words has the
stress on the first syllable
•Biologist
•Photographer
•Psychiatrist
•Secretary

3. Which word sounds different?
•Debt
•Fret
•Treat
•sweat

4. Which word sounds different?
•Mother
•Bother
•Brother
•Another

5. Which word sounds different?
•Hot
•Knot
•Taught
•What

6. Which word does not rhyme with the
others
• Through
• Sew
• Due
• Do

7. Which 2-syllable word has a different stress
pattern from the others?
•a) police
•b) mother
•c) student
•d) money

8. Which 2-syllable word has a different stress
pattern from the others?
• a) career
• b) shampoo
• c) balloon
• d) problem

9. Which 3-syllable word has a different stress
pattern from the others?
• a) cinema
• b) Saturday
• c) umbrella
• d) manager

10. Which 3-syllable word has a different stress
pattern from the others?
•a) potato
•b) paragraph
•c) computer
•d) professor

11. Which of these adjectives beginning with ‘un’ or
‘in’ has the stress on the final syllable?
• a) informal
• b) unhappy
• c) unfriendly
• d) unemployed

12. Underline the stressed syllable
• Economic
• Economy
• Democracy
• Volunteer
• Acquisition
• Acquire
• Verification
• Recognizable
• Necessary
• Exception
• Contagious
• Delicious
• Ecological
• Relevant
• Unfortunately
• Accuracy
• Category
• Comfortable
• Literature
• Subsequent

13. In which sentence does the speaker want to tell us that
John’s car is not second hand?
• a) John’s bought a new car.
• b) John’s bought a new car.
• c) John’s bought a new car.
• d) John’s bought a new car.

14. Accurate- Educate- Advocate- Associate- accumulate-
adequate- activate- appropriate- complicate- separate
• This is an accurate account of what took place
• What complicates matters is that nobody
showed up
• That film is not appropriate for children
• You cannot appropriate the money of the
government
• Charles is an associate member of this
department

15. Register-Record-Upset-Project-Control- protest-
subject- present
• They are conducting a science project
• Before the meeting, you have to register first.
• The equipment is out of control
• A protest was held by the company against
animal testing
• This offer is subjected to the approval of the
board

16. Word Stress
Qualify banana understand
Ooo oOo ooO
Syllabus
Substitute
Technical
Engagement
Banana
phonetic
Usherette
Kangaroo
understand

17. Key Rules
• Schwa is by nature an unstressed sound,
never appears within a stressed syllable
• We can only stress vowels not consonants

19. Sentence stress
• Isochrony is the idea that a language
rhythmically divides time into equal portions.
Three types of divisions are postulated:
• the temporal duration between two stressed
syllables is equal (stress-timed);
• The duration of every syllable is equal
(syllable-timed);
• the duration of every mora is equal (mora-
timed).

20. Sentence stress
• He LIVES in the HOUSE on the CORner
Content words: conveying important
information
Function words: hold language together
Tonic syllable: Corner: most important word
Longer, louder, main pitch

21. • Where did you say John lives?
• He lives in the house on the corner
• John lives in the block of flats on the corner,
doesn’t he?
• No, he lives in the house on the corner

22. Sentence meaning
I love you (…and I want you to know this)
I love you (I don’t love her)
I love you (He doesn’t)
Oo Ooo oOo Oooo ooOo
Plumber- electrician- doctor- journalist- musician- shop- assistant-
teacher- soldier- novelist- architect- carpenter- actpr- policeman-
fireman- lecturer- florist- businessman- artist- farmer- scientist-
researcher- gardener-designer

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