Word Stress, Pause

Question Task Evaluation Criteria

1-2 Read a text Aloud • Pronunciation• Intonation and stress

The Questions

Content words:Facts vs. Feelings

Content words

Adjectives (형용사 ) – great, special, amazing, global

Adverbs (부사 ) – quickly, slowly, certainly, soon

Verbs (동사 ) – close, announce, visit, start

Nouns (명사 ) – service, product, meeting, conference

•practice finding content words in sentences and questions.

We’re going to:

Adjective Adverb Verb Noun Person / Company / Place Name

X

The new Z-phone from Samsung is here! Get one now!

1. Student A reads a card to other students (groups of 3):

2. Other students listen and write the information they catch in the boxes:

new is / get Z-phone Samsung

3. After reading 4 statements, change!

ANSWERS:Adjective Adverb Verb Noun Person / Company / Place Name

Activity:

x quickly be (leaving/seated) bus Busan

short x (am) / is /leave message Tom

Korean proudly announced travel (Korean) government

amazing / new x tell / starting service x

Sunny / Luxurious x are / visit x Hightop Hotels

National x x training Conference the UN

late x have / find parking space x

x slowly remember / speak voice x

great x offer products / services John's Building Store

special / expert certainly prepare program / insttructors X

short x be giving out meeting / survey x

happy soon remind / be closing shoppers Department Store

Activity 1.

We were the number one seller of luxury cars in March.

Who was the number one seller of cars in March?Were you the best seller?In luxury car sales for March, what was your ranking?

Use stress and pause to ‘reveal’ the answer!

Normal traffic conditions are said to be expected starting at 9pm.

A) What are the traffic conditions at 9pm?

B) When will traffic be normal?

Activity 2.

Use stress and pause to ‘reveal’ the answer!

The message

Facts

3pmOn TuesdaySeoulThe manager

The message depends on the job!Stress words that you want listeners to remember.

Feelings

beautifulconvenientexcitingnew

Content words

Adjectives (형용사 ) Adverbs (부사 ) Verbs (동사 ) Nouns (명사 )

The message

Facts Feelings

•practice communicating messages and making memos

using word-stress and pause.

We’re going to:

Activity: Messages and Memos

LISTENING TASK 1 Listen to the sentences as you read along. Underline the words that receive the most stress.

1. The correct numbers are 13 and 17, not 30 and 70. (4)

2. We strongly suggest that you back up your computer files at the end of the day. (1)

3. Our genealogists will conduct a very thorough search of your family tree. (1)

4. On the new schedule, you will see that the bus departs on Tuesday at 1 p.m. (3)

5. Your estimated wait time to speak to a representative is ten minutes. (1)

6. The parking spaces are clearly marked “visitor.” (2)

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HINT:

Think about the message when choosing the words you are going to stress.

Think about what you want listeners to remember: facts? or feelings?

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