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WEEK 9:
- Speech Work: Stress: Stress on the fifth and sixth syllables.
- Vocabulary Development: Identification of use of Figures of speech, Hyperbole, Oxymoron, Paradox, Euphemism, etc.)
- Reading Comprehension: Taxation. ( Pages 212-213)
- Structure: Complex Sentence Structure.
- Writing Skills: Argumentative Essay: “Should Early Marriage be Encouraged”? (Oral)
- Summary: Exercise: Use any WAEC/NECO summary question.
ASPECT: Speech Work
TOPIC: Stress on the 5th And 6th Syllables
Stress in an important feature of speech which creates special problems to many
Nigerian speakers of English Language. As the airstream flows during speech, the speakers exert some effort for the production of the sounds. But we do not exert equal effort for the production of all the sounds because some syllables are uttered with greater breath effort and muscular energy than the others. Such syllables which are uttered with greater muscular energy are louder and longer are said to be stressed. Apart from loudness and duration which characterize a stressed syllable, a more important indication of a stressed syllable is the increase in pitch of the voice. A stressed syllable is indicated by placing a stroke at the beginning of the syllable as in female or behind, but in this note, a stressed syllable is written in capital letters. There are no clearly rules governing the stress pattern of words of three or more syllables, some guidelines could be devised to help assign primary pitchprominence to the correct syllables. Some words become very long when prefixes and suffixes are added. Some polysyllabic words may end in –ing, -ed, -ly, -ial, -ic, -ian, -ion, or –ty while the other may have such prefixes as un-, im-, ir-, mal-, pro-, and dis-.
Words Stressed on the Fifth Syllables:
Experimen-TA-tion
Personifi-CA-tion
Naturali-ZA-tion
electrifi-ZA-tion
collective-ZA-tion
Words Stressed on the Sixth Syllables:
Industriali-ZA-tion
conjunctivi-ZA-tion
internationali-ZA-tion
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