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Monday 23 March 2020

A1-PRONUNCIATON: Word stress in two syllable words

As we have studied in class, English words can be divided into Syllables and there is always a syllable in a word that carries the stress. 

This time we are looking at stressed syllable in two-syllable words. In these types of words the stress can be on the first syllable, (u-gly), or on the second (for-get).

We also studied that, generally speaking, adjectives (u-gly) and nouns (ta-ble) have stress on the first syllables. Verbs, on the contrary, have stess on the second syllable (for-get). 

Watch this video to practice word stress. Follow these four steps
  1. When the words appear stop the video. 
  2. Say the words you see on the screen. 
  3. Decide which one is different.
  4. Play the video again and check.  

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