1. Teaching the stress
Prof. Walid Amer
The Islamic University of Gaza

2. Teaching the
stress

3. Teaching the stress:
Learn the stress of every single word when learning the word
Give generalizations when teaching stress.
Use the English pronouncing dictionary.
Teacher should keep a record of students pronunciation mistakes and help students avoid them individually.

4. How many syllables can you find in each words?
beautiful
Sugar
weather
Su.gar
Beau.ti.ful
employee
superficial
wea.ther
Em.ploy.ee
Su.per.fi.cial

5. Fun with Word Stress!
1. Prepare 12 pages of coloured paper with the target vocabulary and post them to the board.   Each sheet has a number in the top left hand corner.

6. 2 radio 6 Italy 1 Japan 5 positive 3 concider 8 about 9 kitchen
4 television
5 positive
6 Italy
7 education
8 about
9 kitchen
10 addition
11weekend
12 expectation

7. 3. Explain the following to students:
2. Students get into teams of 3 students per team and choose a team name.
3. Explain the following to students:
Each team in turn will choose one page (e.g. Green, 5) without saying the word.  Once a group chooses their word, they now have 1 minute with their group to decide:
A) how many syllables it has B) where the stress is C) how to pronounce the word D) give another adjective that has the same stress pattern

8. 5 positive negative Po.si.tive
Teams get one point for each correct answer and If they get all four correct, they get 5 points (one bonus point)

9. Beautiful employer dangerous influence perfected consider
Activity 3: Put the words into the correct columns. Look at the examples first. ( = stress on second syllable in a three-syllable word,  = stress on first syllable in a three-syllable word)
Beautiful employer dangerous influence perfected consider
banana document organic photograph Italy radio official addition
Column 2 
Column 1 
employer
beautiful
perfected
dangerous
influence
consider
document
banana
organic
photograph
official
Italy
addition
radio