Sentence Stress

What is sentence stress?

• Saying words quieter

• Saying words louder/longer/clearer

• Not speaking

• Saying words faster

Why is sentence stress used?

• To understand key information and fast speech

• To understand slow speech

• To understand useless information

• To understand Chinese

What is a content word?

• Words used for grammatical purpose

• Words used for fun

• Words used to annoy people

• Words used to represent key or important information

What are structure words?

• Words used to represent key information

• Words used to build things

• Words used to help people

• Words used for grammatical accuracy

What is a 'peak syllable'?

• Unstressed syllables

• The tallest syllable

• Stressed syllables

• The longest letter

Structure words contain most of the information in a sentence

• True

• False

Content words contain most of the information in a sentence

• True

• False

which words are stressed: 'Give me the ball'

• Give, Ball

• Me

• Give, Me, The, Ball

• Give, Me

Which words are stressed: 'You don't have the right to do that'

• Don't

• You, Don't, Right

• Don't, Right, Do

• Don't, Right, That

How do you pronounce the weak from of 'from'?

• /frɒm/

• /frəm/

• /freɪm/

• /frəʊm/