Welcome to the class, Qiao!
Today we continued talking about word stress. We practiced saying words that end in -tion, -sion, and -cian. Then I asked you if you noticed any pattern in the stress of these words. Bashar said the stress always falls right before the "shun" sound. That's exactly right.
Next we did a short activity where you underlined the stressed syllable in some words without having me pronounce them for you. You were able to predict where the stress would fall based on the rule. Cool, eh?
Then we did the same thing with some words ending in -ic. They were all adjectives. We noticed that the stress always falls on the syllable before "-ic." Right after that we practiced saying words ending in "-ical." Once again, we were able to find a rule. The stress always falls on the syllable right before "-ical," doesn't it? Magical, political, economical. Those are also all adjectives.
We practiced some words that have two clear vowel sounds, each in its own syllable, like "biology" and "create." Usually the second vowel takes the stress and so is a bit longer.
Finally, we looked at how stress can be the only difference between a noun and a verb that are spelled the exact same way. For example, an export is a product that one country sells to another country. Rice is an export of the U.S. To export means to ship something to another country for sale. It's the verb.
We practiced saying the noun / verb pairs. Then we worked with our partners to see if our partners could tell which we were saying, the noun or the verb of a noun/verb pair.
There were lots of interesting words on today's worksheet, so we spent a little time talking about the meanings of some of them. I was amazed that Florin knew the meaning of the noun convert. Florin has a very large vocabulary in English!
See you Thursday. Don't forget to bring your socks if you are going bowling.
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