Lead in#

避开话题导入，开门见山 How can we make our spoken English sound like a native speaker?

Today we’re going to learn another useful skill that helps us sounds more natural and native.

Presentation#

When we pronounce some syllable or words, we’ll put more force in these pronunciation than other syllables or words. We used to learn the meaning of stress is pressure. Here is means to show emphasis or clarity in some words or sentences. eg. Fortunately How do we pronounce this word?The stressed syllable is? In a long passage,we usually stress some words instead of reading each word with equal efforts. Read a passage and find out the main idea. Main idea helps us grasp the most important information and corresponding words easily. First sentence.How would you emphasis? Partner discussion.Mark out your pick.(1 min) Part of speech.,v.,adv.,adj. notional words usually carry significant meaning

Practice#

The following sentence, mark out the stress words.Partner discussion.(2 min) Stick to the rule and don’t forget to stress notional words.Practice by yourself.Read the sentence with rhythm.(another 2 min) One sentence one person.Class repeat. You’re doing better.

Production#

Read the whole passage together. I can see you’ve understood better on stress.

Summary and Homework#

Time to have a summary together. You all did a great job.

Practice stress for another 15 min.