A2 Elementary , All Courses , Pronunciation ,

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.

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This course is only available as part of our lifetime learner programme.

Course Facts

* When all activities are completed thoroughly with 10 minutes allocated to each self-study activity.

Prerequisites

Intensifiers

Word Stress

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