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Ship Or Sheep (Unit 3: e (pen))

Exercise - 4bcd

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b. Word stress
Practise the word stress in these place names. In many place names the strong stress is on the first syllable.
Denmark Venice Edinburgh Mexico
Mecca Melbourne Lebanon
A smaller number of place names have the strong stress on the last syllable.
Japan Mumbai Madrid Beirut New York
In longer place names the strong stress is sometimes in the middle of the word.
the Riviera the Mediterranean Australia America Helsinki Philadelphia

c. Now practise the conversation below, using the place names in 4b.
A: How did you spend your holiday?
B: I went to . .
A: Was it expensive?
B: Yes. Very. I Not very.

d. Dictionary work: word stress
When you meet a new word, you can check which syllable is strongly stressed in a good dictionary (e.g. Cambridge Advanced Learner’s Dictionary). The pronunciation of the word is shown in the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA), with the symbol1 in front of the main strong stress of the word, e.g. electric /?'lektr?k/. Your dictionary will also show the secondary stress (usually in longer words) with the symbol,, e.g. electricity /?lek'tr?s?ti/.
In Ship or Sheep? only the main strong stress in a word is in bold to show you where the stressed syllable ends, e.g. electric, electricity.
Look up some of these words in a dictionary and bold which syllable has the main strong stress.

EXAMPLE except or ex'cept

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