students and the efforts they need for the improvement 11. Ask the students to do more practice after class and get ready for presentation during the next session Notes for Teachers Stressed Words Unstressed Words in a sentence In this unit we will learn how to pronounce stressed and unstressed syllables together in sentences We have made some general observations regarding the location of stress in isolated words. But since speech is made up of words strung together, we must also look at these words in groups, in phrases, or in sentences in order to observe what happens to the stress pattern. Sentence stress refers to the word or words in sentence that receive a strong accent. In most sentences you will find a series of both stressed and unstressed words In a sentence, English speakers joint stressed and unstressed syllables together smoothly. Stressed syllables are long, have a pitch change and have full vowel sounds while unstressed syllables are short and often have a reduced vowel sound a reduced vowel sound is a short unclear vowel sound. The short vowel sound in unstressed syllable is very often the sound /o/, which is the most common of all sounds in English Now, say the following words lecture marker These words all contain the schwa /o/ in the second syllable. Try to pronounce it as a relaxed and easy sound. And since it is in the weak syllable, /o/ is much shorter than the vowel in the stressed syllable Any English vowel letter can be pronounced with the schwa/o/ firemen aeilou support What to stress in a sentence? In an English utterance, stressed words give information to the listener unstressed words join the information words together. Correct pronunciation stressed and unstressed words is thus extremely important for effective communication in English Information words and function words Information words are usually nouns, verbs, adjectives, and ad verbs. They givestudents and the efforts they need for the improvement. 11. Ask the students to do more practice after class and get ready for presentation during the next session. Notes for Teachers Stressed Words & Unstressed Words in a Sentence In this unit we will learn how to pronounce stressed and unstressed syllables together in sentences. We have made some general observations regarding the location of stress in isolated words. But since speech is made up of words strung together, we must also look at these words in groups, in phrases, or in sentences in order to observe what happens to the stress pattern. Sentence stress refers to the word or words in sentence that receive a strong accent. In most sentences you will find a series of both stressed and unstressed words. In a sentence, English speakers joint stressed and unstressed syllables together smoothly. Stressed syllables are long, have a pitch change and have full vowel sounds while unstressed syllables are short and often have a reduced vowel sound. A reduced vowel sound is a short, unclear vowel sound. The short vowel sound in unstressed syllable is very often the sound //, which is the most common of all sounds in English. Now, say the following words: leader lecture marker These words all contain the schwa // in the second syllable. Try to pronounce it as a relaxed and easy sound. And since it is in the weak syllable, // is much shorter than the vowel in the stressed syllable. Any English vowel letter can be pronounced with the schwa //: allow a firemen e possible i // command o support u What to stress in a sentence? In an English utterance, stressed words give information to the listener and unstressed words join the information words together. Correct pronunciation of stressed and unstressed words is thus extremely important for effective communication in English. Information words and function words Information words are usually nouns, verbs, adjectives, and adverbs. They give