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  • Unit Six: Sentence Focus: Emphasizing content words

    This online course is adapted from:Clear Speech: Pronunciation and Listening Comprehension in North American English (Second Edition) (Student's Book)



    B: Emphasizing a word
    Listen to these sentences and notice how the underlined words are easier to her that the other words.

    1. We'll be arriving tomorrow.
    2. You look great. 
    3. She lives in Toronto now. 
    4. Is the baby walking yet?
    5. Follow that car!
     D: Music of English

    Listen to these sentences and notice how the focus words are emphasized. The stressed syllable of each focus word has a change n pitch and a long, clear vowel.

    You look confused! 
    That's because  I lost my glasses. 
    Listen again. Practice saying the sentences until you can say them smoothly and easily.

      
    G: Emphasizing the focus word

    The  focus words in these sentences are underlined. Each or these focus words is a different category of content word. 
     Listen to the sentences and hear how the focus words are emphasized. 

    1. My cat eats fish
    2. He loves it
    3. But only fresh fish
    4. he eats slowly
    5. I don't know why he eats that way.
     Practice saying the sentences.

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