We are going to listen to a song. Can you guess what this song is about just looking at the pictures?
Now, listen to the song and try to follow the identify/pay attention to the stressed words:
Idea from:
Autor: Karen Ludlow; Macmillan Heinemann English Language Teaching.
Editorial: Oxford, UK : Macmillan Heinemann English Language Teaching, 1996.
Now, listen to this video. Stress-timed versus syllable-timed language:
or revise these PWP presentations on word stress, sentence stress and connected speech and intonation.
Here its is a MUSICAL example to understand it:
Here it is a good explanation:
or a song:
If you do not follow the stress-timed rules, you might have problems. If you do not believe me, try to sing this other song:
Try it with this other version.
Two more songs to finish this part of the class:
More:
Good prezi presentation to clarify/consider:
https://prezi.com/2gf2edhqclf9/sentence-stress/