1. Word and sentence
stress

2. “Houston, we have a problem”

3. “I see dead people”

4. “Run Forest, run”

5. “What happens in Vegas, stays in
Vegas”

6. “Nothing beats a first kiss”

7. “To infinity and beyond”

8. “May the force be with you”

9. “I’ll be back”

10. “My mamma always said: Life was
like a box of chocolates you never
know what you’re gonna get”

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

18. Can you pass me a plastic knife?
I want to take a photography class.
China is the place where I was born.
Please turn off the television before you go out.
I can't decide which book to borrow.
Do you understand this lesson?
Sparky is a very happy puppy.
It is critical that you finish your essay.
My Grandfather wears an old-fashioned coat.
There is a lot of traffic on the highway today.

19. 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

20. What is stress?
How can you
identify stressed
syllables?
Which sound never
appears within a
stressed syllable?
Up to how many
levels of stress have
been identified?

21. • When a word or syllable is pronounced with
greater force than other words in the same
sentence or other syllables in the same
word,.

22. STRESS FEATURES
Pitch change: prominence
Loudness: Level of speaker’s voice
Length: Longer syllable

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

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

25. Plumber- electrician- doctor- journalist-
musician- shop- assistant- teacher- soldier-
novelist- architect- carpenter- actor-
policeman- fireman- lecturer- florist-
businessman- artist- farmer- scientist-
researcher- gardener-designer
Oo Ooo oOo Oooo ooOo

26. When a noun or adjective comes • Artist friendly
from a one-syllable word
When a verb comes from a one- • Remove become
syllable word, compound verbs
second syllable • Understand overflow
Some two- syllable words are both • Record record
nouns and verbs.
Compound nouns are made from two • Bookshop newspaper
smaller words • Check-in desk crossword
• Forget
Stress does not change when adding • Forgetful
prefixes or suffixes • Quietly
For compound adjectives, the stress • bad-TEMpered, old-FASHioned
is on the second part

28. Sentence stress
• The beautiful Mountain appeared transfixed in
the distance.
• He can come on Sundays as long as he doesn't
have to do any homework in the evening.

29. 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

30. Prepositions
• before, next
Auxiliary to, opposite Pronouns
verbs • they, she, us
• don't, am,
can, were
Determiners Conjunctions
• the, a, Function • but, while,
some, a few words as

31. Nouns
Main
verbs
Adjective
s&
adverbs
Content words

32. 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).

33. Isochronicity

34. 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.

35. • 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

36. 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)