WORD

STRESS

Prepared by: Teacher Ludividen S. Negrillo

 What is Word Stress

Stress or accent is the emphasis given to a pa

rticular syllable in a word or phrase. The stres
s mark is placed on top of the vowel to give e
mphasis on the word or on the phrase. Stress
can also change the meaning of the word. The
re are some words that are the same spelling;
notice that the change in the placement of str
ess in a word also changes its meaning.
Why Word stress is important?
 All word that have more
Mistakes in word stress are than one syllable have
common cause of word stress.
misunderstanding in One syllable is
English. longer and louder
than the other.
WORD
STRESS English words
has it's own
Word stress is not an rhythm.
optional extra that you Word stress plays an
can add to the English important role of
language if you want. It is correct pronunciations
part of the language. of English words.
 PRO-ject- a specific  ADD-ress- a place where a
person or organization
plan or design. may be communicated
(Noun) with. (Noun)
 pro-JECT- to devise
 a-DDRESS- to mark
in the mind. (Verb)EXAMPLESdirections. (Verb)
 E-xport- something MAN-date- an
exported. (Noun) authoritative
command. (Noun)
 ex-PORT- to carry man-DATE- to
away. (Verb) assign something.
(Verb)
 Longer in duration

How to pronounce
Word Stress? Higher in pitch

Louder in Volume
THINGS TO REMEMBER

A Language learner needs to
engage with a word many times,
preferably in different ways, in order to
really learn it. identifying and practicing
word stress can provide one or two of
those engagements.
Even if the speaker can be
understood, mistakes with word
stress can make the listener feel
irritated or perhaps even amused
and could prevent good
communication from taking place.

Stressing the wrong Word stress is very

syllable in a word can important to knowing how
make the word very to properly pronounce
difficult to hear and KEYS words in English.
understand.

Stressing a word differently Most English words will

have one syllable said
can change the meaning or
louder than the other
type of the word. syllables.
RULES OF WORD
STRESS
1. A word can only have one
stress. In a very long word you
can have a secondary stress but
it is always a much smaller
stress.

2. Only vowels are stressed,

not consonants. The vowels
in English are a, e, i, o and u.
The consonants are all the
other letters.
 ASSIGNMENT:
Answer activity (1,2 and 3) pages 4-5 in your English bo
ok.
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