Pronunciation 视听说 Book 4 Unit 6 知识讲稿.ppt

1 Listen and repeat the proper nouns.;2 Say the words aloud. Applying the syllable stress rules to identify the stressed syllables.;3 Listen and notice how the underlined words are unstressed. ;Janet So you mean, I can just go to the entrance and ask to go up the tower? Andy Well, I’m not too sure, actually. But I can try and find out. Come to think of it, I’m pretty sure you need to get permission from your Member of Parliament. Joe Ah, you and I don’t have one, because we aren’t UK residents. So I guess that means we can’t go up Big Ben. Andy I don’t really know, to be honest. But it’s also well worth taking a tour round the Houses of Parliament.;4 Listen and notice how the speaker creates connected speech by linking sounds, using contractions and pausing after sense groups.;Stress on first syllable ;The first word of the compound usually takes the stress. If the word has a preposition as the first word of a compound word, the second word may take the stress. ;When we try to find patterns of stress derived from suffixes, remember that syllables must be counted from the end of the word toward the beginning of the word.;Suffix stress patterns;However, many English words do not follow any syllable stress rule at all. The only way to learn them is to listen to native speakers.;;Answers: PLAstic 2. phoTOgraphy 3. CHIna 4. teleVIsion 5. deCIde 6. underSTAND 7. HAppy 8. CRItical 9. old-FASHioned 10. TRAFfic;The basic rules of sentence stress are: content words (main verbs, nouns, adjectives, adverbs and negative auxiliaries) are stressed structure words (pronouns, prepositions, articles, conjunctions and auxiliary verbs) are unstressed the time between stressed words is always the same;Read the following sentences and guess the contexts.