1 Make sure that you studied how certain suffixes influence the placement of primary stress (Check information or handouts your teacher might have given you or visit www WordStress info > Word Stress Rules > Suffixes and Their Stress Rules) 2 Can you highlight, underline, or circle the syllable that will receive the primary stress for each
stress? Examples Phrasal Verbs on the particle turn off buckle up Word With Added ending -ic the syllable before the ending economic electrical -tion, -cian, -sion Technician graduation -phy, -gy, -try, -cy, -fy, -al the third from the last syllable biology geometry -meter Parameter Thermometer
expressed Compounds have primary stress on the first word and on those following them they have secondary stress In the compound ?GOLF ?ball, the first word has primary stress and the following the secondary stress As for phrases, however, their qualified elements i e the words second in line are stressed more prominently
last two words don’t match, they don’t win the cards and have to give two cards to the other players as a punishment When students have finished the pelmanism and/ or snap games, they can write the nationality words of all the country words and mark their number of syllables and/ or stress They can also test each other on the words:
Word Stress Maze Activity Trace a route through the maze following the words stressed on the first syllable (only), starting at the top-left corner You can go left, right, up or down from each square When you think that you have finished, your teacher will tell you which square you should finish
Activity 2: Practise saying the words in Column 1, then Column 2 Activity 3: Practise saying these phrases 1 routine event 8 cotton towels 2 empty stomach 9 crowded pavement 3 without control 10 argue against 4 improve scissors 11 lovely wedding 5 lovely jumper 12 prefer guitars
to greater awareness and familiarity with stress pattern A summary of English word stress rules Rule 1 Note that the majority of these words are verbs
Stress is about which sounds we emphasise in words and sentences For example in The Thai teachers mention some of these problems when they talk about their C Mark stress clearly on the board to give them a visual record to keep