This document provides an overview and exercises on English phonetics, specifically word stress and sentence stress. It explains that word stress refers to emphasizing certain syllables within words, while sentence stress emphasizes certain words within sentences. It then gives examples of the 8 common word stress patterns in English words containing 1-4 syllables. Exercises are included to practice identifying word stress. Sentence stress is described as giving English its rhythm, with content words usually stressed over structure words. More examples and exercises are provided to practice sentence stress through intonation.

1. English Phonetics
project
by
Alejandra Valero
Aldemar Trujillo

2. In this project we are going to try to teach how we apply the word and
sentence stress through some diferent speaking exercises .
At first step we are going to give you an explanation and each explanation
with an exercises.
Stress is the relative emphasis that may be given to certain syllables in a
word, or to certain words in a phrase or sentence in other words, is the
accent or the strong tone that we give in a sentence.

3. WORD STRESS PSYCHOLOGY
Is the stress placed on syllables within words
EXERCISE
Listen and repeat after the recording

4. This are two simple rules about the word
stress:
• One word has only one
stress
• We can only stress
vowels, not consonants.

5. NOW HERE ARE THE EIGHT WORD
STRESS PATTERNS IN ENGLISH.
One Syllable – Stressed: the only syllable have the stress
EAT, WELL
Two Syllable - First Syllable Stressed:
PICture, HEAting
Two Syllable - Second Syllable Stressed:
toDAY, aLLOW

6. Three Syllable - First Syllable Stressed:
Operate, Energy
Three Syllable - Second Syllable Stressed:
poTAto, comMITtee
Three Syllable - Third Syllable Stressed:
japanESE, volunTEER
Four Syllable - Second Syllable Stressed:
neuTRAlity, eVAporate
Four Syllable - Third Syllable Stressed:
inforMAtion, poliTIcian

7. ACTIVITY:
listen and underline the word stress:

8. SENTENCE STRESS
Is the stress placed on words within sentences.
EXERCISE
Listen and repeat after the recording
• Will you SELL my CAR because I’ve GONE to FRANCE
• The PRESIDENT’S FAMILY lives in the WHITE HOUSE

9. Sentence stress is what gives English its rhythm or "beat".
Most sentences have two types of word:
content words: give the meaning of the sentence
main verbs – sell, give, employ
nouns – car, music, mary
adjectives – red, big, interesting
adverbs – quickly, loudly, never
negative auxiliaries – don’t, aren’t, can’t

10. structure words: complement the sentence
pronouns – I, he, she, we, they
prepositions – on, at, into
articles – a, an, the
conjunctions – and, but, because
auxiliary verbs – do, be, have, can, must
“to be” as a main verb – is, are, was
EXAMPLES:
Where did you go?
We want to go to work.

11. Now practice the pronunciation through the intonation in the sentence stress
and underline the stressed word, repeat after the recording:
My teachers really amuse me.
How long are you going for?
John wants to be an actor, so he wants to live in Hollywood.
After the movie, they went to a bar to have beer.