Sentence Stress

What is sentence stress?

• Saying words quieter

• Saying words louder/longer/clearer

• Not speaking

• Saying words faster

Tags

CCSS.L.3.3A

CCSS.L.4.3A

CCSS.L.5.3A

CCSS.L.6.3A

CCSS.L.6.3B

Why is sentence stress used?

• To understand key information and fast speech

• To understand slow speech

• To understand useless information

• To understand Chinese

Tags

CCSS.L.3.3A

CCSS.L.4.3A

CCSS.L.5.3A

CCSS.L.6.3A

CCSS.L.6.3B

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

Tags

CCSS.L.11-12.6

CCSS.L.8.6

CCSS.L.9-10.6

CCSS.W.11-12.2D

CCSS.W.9-10.2D

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

Tags

CCSS.L.11-12.6

CCSS.L.9-10.6

CCSS.W.11-12.2D

CCSS.W.8.2D

CCSS.W.9-10.2D

What is a 'peak syllable'?

• Unstressed syllables

• The tallest syllable

• Stressed syllables

• The longest letter

Tags

CCSS.RF.1.3D

CCSS.RF.2.3C

CCSS.RF.3.3C

CCSS.RF.4.3A

CCSS.RF.5.3A

Structure words contain most of the information in a sentence

• True

• False

Tags

CCSS.L.11-12.2B

CCSS.L.6.6

CCSS.L.7.2B

CCSS.L.8.2C

CCSS.L.9-10.1.C

Content words contain most of the information in a sentence

• True

• False

Tags

CCSS.L.11-12.6

CCSS.L.8.6

CCSS.L.9-10.6

CCSS.W.11-12.2D

CCSS.W.9-10.2D

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

Tags

CCSS.L.1.5D

CCSS.L.2.5B

CCSS.L.3.5C

CCSS.L.K.5D

How do you pronounce the weak from of 'from'?

• /frɒm/

• /frəm/

• /freɪm/

• /frəʊm/

Tags

CCSS.L.3.2F