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Phonetics & Stress

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Sounds
Vowels (20)
Long (5)
sheep farm coo four bird

Short (7)
ship

Diphthongs (8)
day eye boy mouth

hat
foot sock

cup
head above

nose
ear hair poor

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Consonants (24)
Voiceless (9)
pen town cat fish think

Voiced (15)
book day give look run yes

very the
zoo vision jump

we moon
name sing

say
she cheese hand

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Mechanics of Oral Communication


Word Stress

In English, we do not say each syllable with the same force or strength. In a word, we stress on ONE syllable. That syllable is emphasized more strongly than the others.

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Word Stress Let's take 3 words: Photograph Photographer Photographic Do they sound the same when spoken?

No. We stress ONE syllable in each word. And it is not always the same syllable. Listen to it once again
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Sentence Stress

Sentence stress is the stress on certain words within a sentence. Most sentences have two types of words: content words structure words

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Sentence Stress Content words are the key words in a sentence. These are the important words that carry the meaning of a sentence. For example: Will you sell my car when I've gone to France? How kind of you to let me come!

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Tomorrow morning, I shall visit your office. Tomorrow morning, I shall visit your office. Tomorrow morning, I shall visit your office. Tomorrow morning, I shall visit your office.

Tomorrow morning, I shall visit your office.


Tomorrow morning, I shall visit your office.

Tomorrow morning, I shall visit your office.

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Sentence Stress

The basic rules of sentence stress are: 1. content words are stressed 2. structure words are unstressed 3. the time between stressed words is always the same

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Accent, MTI, Intonation

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Mechanics of Oral Communication


Accent Indian accent

He is my best friend.
This is my favourite film. I like it very much.

Its easy.
Words such as : environment, iron, women, embarrassing, technology etc

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Mother tongue influence Last night, I saw a dream. Whats your good name? Then he said ki he wasnt feeling well. I told you na, he is like that only. He came to me running running.

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Pause

Julia, said Preity, is intelligent.


Julia said, Preity is intelligent.

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Intonation Is John here? John is here.

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Tone
Affirmative

Thats a great job.

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Tone
Interrogative

Thats a great job?

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Tone
Exclamative

Thats a great job!!!

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Syllable (in a word)
Consult Learn System

Consultant
Consultancy

Learner
Learning

Systemic
Collaborate

Lead
Leader

Continue
Continuous

Collaboration
Economics

Leadership

Continuously

Economical

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