Which of the following words has the stress on the first syllable

•Biologist •Photographer

•Psychiatrist

•Secretary

Which 2-syllable word has a different stress pattern from the others?

• police • mother • student • money

Which 2-syllable word has a different stress

pattern from the others? • career • shampoo • balloon • problem

Which 3-syllable word has a different

stress pattern from the others? • cinema • Saturday • umbrella • manager

Which 3-syllable word has a different stress pattern from the others?

• potato

• paragraph

• computer

• professor

Which of these adjectives beginning with ‘un’ or ‘in’ has the stress on the final syllable?

• informal

• unhappy

• unfriendly

• unemployed

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?

Why learn stress?

"I carried the b'tell to the hottle."Now reverse the stress patterns for the two words and you should be able to make sense of the sentence!"I carried the bottle to the hotel."

Some definitions...

In English we can use the word ‘stress’ to refer generally to the way we emphasize

something, or give prominence to it

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

How to identify stress?

O o

equal

o O oo

equality

O o o

equalise

o o o O o

equalisation

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•Before the meeting, you have to register first.

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