Practical assignments Stress

Task 1

Write the words listed below in groups according to the following accentual patterns:

  ();   ;    ();  ;    ():

expose, re-pay, illustrate, forbear, make-up, debate, admission, event, get off, dressing-table, vacancy, pedagogic, vice-dean, discontent, demonstration, well-bred, exact, compensate, antiphonic, exclamation, foresee, multiply, begin, submarine, blue-eyed, celebrate, ice-cream, behave, parenthetic, tape recorder, procession, registration, well-shaped, paraphrase, economic, parenthesis, introduction, machinery.

Task 2

Write the words listed below in groups according to the following accentual patterns:

  ();   ;    ();  ;    ():

Advertise, conversation, demonstrate, believe, antifascist, sitting-room, recognize, composition, postwar, forget, appreciate, situate, armchair, patriotic, academy, inconvenient, election, forbid, gas-stove, economy, blackboard,criticize, recollect, well-known, beefsteak, vice-president, revolution, become, get up, fair-haired, redress, sympathetic, make up, fourteen, picturesque, put on.

Task 3

Write the words listed below in groups according to the following accentual patterns:

  ();    ();     ;     ;     ();      :

Father, phonetics, compound, organisation, phonotactics, practice, saying, communication, allophone, attitude, international, loudness, nucleus, intensity, opposition, pronunciation, syllable, classify, reduction, articulation, phoneme, modification, prosody, palatalisation, quality.

Linking of words in connected speech

1. Linking “r”

Practise the following word combinations and phrases

father-in-law a lecture on history ask for a favour

mother-in-law a picture of acity send for a doctor

daughter-in-law a teacher of English a glass or a cup

brother-in-law the author of the novel closed or open

father and mother the Tower of London German or English

neither is Ann Arthur is here.

neither are we I can’t hear anything.

the door is open The teacher is in the classroom.

the floor is clean They are in the other room.

they are easy She has a shower every day.

they are ours We have a seminar on Wednesday.

2. A consonant with a vowel at the junction of words

Practise the following words, word combinations and phrases:

an uncle went away the first of January

an actress half an hour the fourth of April

his aunt once or twice the fifth of March

his uncle my wife and I the eighth of August

the ninth of October Good evening. It’s always green

the eleventh of December Good afternoon It’s almost open

the twelfth of November It’s all right. It’s always late

the thirteenth of September It’s also nice. It’s Andrew’s aunt.

3. Two adjacent vowels in a word and at a word boundary

Practise the following words, word combinations and phrases:

the artist to earn the twentieth the easiest trying

the actress to own the thirtieth the earlliest going

the Indian to envy the fortieth the heaviest drying

the earth to argue the fiftieth the happiest crying

the only to occupy the sixtieth yellowish living

the eleventh to invent the eightieth bluish staying

very often only a few days It’s a new opera.

very interesting every other day It’s a very easy exercise.

pretty awful nearly a whole week There are only eight.