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b) Make up your own sentences, using the words below.export, import, contract, abstract, escort, insult, perfect, permit, protest, rebel.
Decide which syllable should be stressed and why. financial permission intellectual pedestrian occasion artificial possibility situation realistic qualification sufficient conscious cautious flexible necessity suspicious production recognize energetic referee terrific publicity terrify impossible solidify sociology essential anthropology psychology proficient autobiography vegetarian photography parameter judicious speedometer superstitious thermometer refugee trainee fantastic humidify conclusion career deficient volunteer Japanese antique incredible technique exaggerate humidity vocabulary associate contemporary certificate efficient criticize politician Portuguese unusual necessary computerize mysterious individual integrate personify spontaneous simultaneous
Decide whether the two words in each pair have the same stress pattern. Two-syllable words 1. advise compete 2. humid perform Three-syllable words 1. official magnify Four-syllable words 1.opposition necessity Five-syllable words 1.incompatible sociology
Group the following words so that they match the patterns in the table. a)Infamous dinosaur banana calendar enjoyment excel begin imply arrive cluster eternal before worry kingdom countless defeated history statement passage mountain
b)astonish calendar develop opponent appetite curious hurricane possibility document congregate crocodile commercial instrument choke vanilla sentiment
Read the sentences paying attention to double-stressed words. Decide which of the stresses should be lost.
1. She says she’s eighteen. This is lab eighteen. 2. She’s rather light-headed. They say she’s light-headed. 3. He’s a middle-aged man. None of them are middle-aged. 4. Does he live upstairs? The upstairs study is mine. 5. There are fifty five pages in the magazine. It happened in nineteen fifty five. 6. It’s his favorite armchair. There’s a large armchair in the study. 7. This meat is underdone. He doesn’t like underdone meat. 8. He’s rather independent man. He’s rather independent. 9. He has five o’clock tea nearly every afternoon. It’s nearly five o’clock. He’s having afternoon tea. 10. The upstairs room is vacant. He lives upstairs. 11. There’s a good-looking girl over there. She’s very good-looking. 12. The girl is nineteen. The nineteenth page is missing. 13. He has a charming little weekend cottage. He goes there every weekend. 14. He’s a hard-working student. He’s very hard-working. 15. She’s nearly fifteen. There were fifteen students in the group. 16. They are coming for the weekend. The weekend was great fun.
Date: 2015-12-18; view: 1992
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