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#1 What Is Stress? This multiple choice activity will introduce you to stress in the English language.
#2 Listen to the Beat! In this activity, you will count the beats or syllables in words that you hear.
#3 Pairs Spelled Alike Some related nouns, verbs, and adjectives have the same spelling. Find out if the stress changes one form to the next.
#4 Compound Nouns Compound nouns have predictable stress. Listen to the lecture and then have fun with the crossword puzzle.
#5 Looks Can Be Deceiving Some words look like compound nouns, but really aren't. Listen to sets of words and determine which one is not a compound noun.
#6 Shifting Forms When words change forms, the stress within a word sometimes changes. Here are some common stress shifters.
#7 More Shifts Here's some extra practice with listening for the difference between nouns and verbs in a reading passage.
#8 Sentence Stress This cloze exercise introduces a few patterns for stress in sentences.
#9 Some Patterns of Sentence Stress Now that we've looked at some stressed words. Let's apply what we know in this quiz.
#10 Reductions You will hear a brief explanation of reduced expressions in English followed by sample sentences. As you listen, you'll match the long forms with their reductions.
#11 Whaddaya Say This neat little crossword puzzle helps you practice identifying reductions and their long forms.
#12 Lyrics and Informal Speech Casual speech in North American English can be problematic, but it is just about everywhere you look. Popular songs almost always have one reduction or another and sometimes even incorrect forms! Here's one example.
#13 You Gotta Be Here's another great cloze activity for reductions in songs. You will hear the American singer, Des'ree, sing her hit "You Gotta Be".
#14 Tune In Learn about some common types of music in this matching exercise.
#15 Tune In Part Two Match more kinds of music here! Look at the pictures and match them to the music type.
#16 Music! Test your music I.Q. in this listening quiz. Listen to short music clips and fill in the category of music.
#17 Reductions In Song Titles Now that you've had a little fun with music. Review reductions in famous song titles in this matching exercise!
#18 Wrap It Up & Take It Review stress patterns for words and sentences in this matching exercise.

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