
Sentence Stress
Sentence stress is a technique we use to sound native when speaking in English. Believe it or not, English sentence stress is regulated by a set of rules, which we teach and demonstrate in this course.
Course Facts
- Level Elementary
- 2 hours of activities*
- 15 minutes of video content
- 15 downloadable resources
- 9 self-study activities
* When all activities are completed thoroughly with 10 minutes allocated to each self-study activity.
Prerequisites
Course Objectives
- To define stress and understand its importance in the English language
- To understand the difference between syllabic and stress-timed languages
- To identify parts of speech as content or function words
- To apply the rules of sentence stress to any sentence in English
- To understand the situations when we don't require stress
- To define and understand emphatic stress and apply it where necessary in English
- To understand what an intensifier is and know the most common intensifiers in English
- To define and understand contrastive stress and apply it where necessary in English
- To understand the differences between sentence stress and poetry stress
Course Features

Notes Tool
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Translator
Use our built-in translator to translate anything into your own language.

Support
Ask our teachers anything English-related using our online messaging tool.

Transcripts
View transcripts for all our video lessons to understand everything that our teachers say.

Downloads
Download numerous resources including flashcards, worksheets and games to practise.
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- 4 Lessons
- 17 Topics
- 1 Quiz
- Course Certificate
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