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Welcome
Teacher’s Name: Kaniz DilrubaRoll No-13
P.T.I Comilla
PresentationSubject-English
Topic: “Common patterns of stress and intonation in English”
Learning Outcomes: By the end of this presentation you’ll be able – 1. to define syllable, stress and intonation. 2. to use common pattern of stress and intonation.
What do we mean by syllable and stress?Syllable-
“A syllable is apart of a word that contains a single vowel or sound and that is pronounced as
a unit.” For example –Book has one syllable.Stress-
“word stress is the term used to describe the accent or emphasis given to a particular syllable
of a word.”For example- father answer begin
Common patterns of stress-
1. Many common nouns and adjectives will have stress on the first syllable. For
example- people, mother, happy etc.2.In words with prefixes such as-be,in,dis,
ex,un etc.the stress is always on the second or third syllable. Example-Begin, Because,
Examine,Dislike,Undeerstand
3. Suffixes, such as-ly,-ible,-ory,-ical,-ic are never stressed.Examples-
lovely,impossible,category,logical,economic.4. Compound words which are formed with two
nouns are common.They are stressed on the first noun.Examples-
Newspaper,Grandfather,Grandmother.5.Usually prepositions conjunctions will have no
stress because they are not content words. Example-on, in, and etc.
Intonation: “Intonation is the way that the voice rises and falls as the speaker speaks.”For example-What’s your name?
Common pattern of intonation in English
1.We use rising voice at the end of the question type sentences.
For example-what is this?2.We use a falling voice at the end of
the statement type sentences.For example-It’s a bag.
Thanks a lot