Name: The Teachers' Room: Teaching word stress
Uploaded: 2021-04-11T16:50:15.000Z
Duration: 5 min 38 s
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So are you stressed about teaching words stressed down?

I think of all the areas of pronunciation, it's the one that I'm most comfortable with.

No, please after you ladies first car was going to say that you might say something about marking word stress for new vocation is exactly what I was going to say that the point I was going to make.

So don't forget when you're writing new words on the board, particularly ones that the word stress causes confusion.

You could use the same colors and shapes and try and use a visually clear and consistent style.

I'm a box kind of guy like squares rigid.

Happiness Also encourage our students to be independent so they can mark stress in their notebooks to help them in the future and show them how to look it up in a dictionary so they can find out for themselves with more advanced learners who know a little bit more about word stress.

It might be worth highlighting the difference between major stress and minus stress, difficult, difficult stuff in a dictionary.

So how do you make word stress fun in your class?

I like to use a variety of physical methods and make a bit of a joke out of it because everybody writes down the words stress.

But by getting them to do things, especially kinesthetic learners, I'm a kinesthetic learner, I like movement.

So a bit of movement makes everybody laugh and it's a bit of a giggle together and they'll remember.

Yeah so you can use like clapping and tapping friend nancy ation A.

You can use humming and whistling like a late night show that he was humming or whistling.

You can also use whispering and shouting.

Like all areas of english there are rules and exceptions with words dress so it can help to encourage students to notice these patterns and make them aware of it.

Certainly with a few simple rules, you can help them increase their knowledge and help them to better pronounce un encountered words in the future.

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The Teachers' Room: Teaching word stress

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