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What is sentence stress?
Saying words quieter
Saying words louder/longer/clearer
Not speaking
Saying words faster
Why is sentence stress used?
To understand key information and fast speech
To understand slow speech
To understand useless information
To understand Chinese
What is a content word?
Words used for grammatical purpose
Words used for fun
Words used to annoy people
Words used to represent key or important information
What are structure words?
Words used to represent key information
Words used to build things
Words used to help people
Words used for grammatical accuracy
What is a 'peak syllable'?
Unstressed syllables
The tallest syllable
Stressed syllables
The longest letter
Structure words contain most of the information in a sentence
True
False
Content words contain most of the information in a sentence
True
False
which words are stressed: 'Give me the ball'
Give, Ball
Me
Give, Me, The, Ball
Give, Me
Which words are stressed: 'You don't have the right to do that'
Don't
You, Don't, Right
Don't, Right, Do
Don't, Right, That
How do you pronounce the weak from of 'from'?
/frɒm/
/frəm/
/freɪm/
/frəʊm/
Which words are stressed: 'there's a test at 8 in the morning, you should study'?
Test, 8, Morning, Study
Test, 8, Study
Test, Morning, Should, Study
Test, 8, Should, Study
Sentence stress can help you be understood more easily?
True
False
I don't know
I am crazy
Sentence stress makes you speak quicker
True
False
You can't prove it
Everything is a lie
Native speakers use sentence stress every time they speak
True
False
Native speakers can't speak English
No one uses sentence stress
Sentence stress can help you understand fast speech.
True
False
I don't know
Go away
You don't have to use sentence stress to be understood but you need to be able to understand it to listen to native speakers.
True
False
I don't know
Chicken nugget
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