Individual Activity

Direction: Assume that you will be teaching someone the proper word stress. Come
up with a tutorial video presenting the proper way of stressing the following words.

Rubrics:
Creativity - 10 points
Clarity - 10 points
Proper word stress - 10 points

Read the following words, giving emphasis on the syllable that receives the
strongest stress or the primary stress.

1. Two-syllable words stressed on the first syllable.

actor drastic carbon organ essence
logic hamper chaos magic waffle
clothing charcoal sterile baggage folder
village timber closet color jewel

2. Two-syllable words stressed on the second syllable.

conceal corsage avoid reveal revise
collage abrupt direct event enthuse
assent surreal dessert dissent oblique
bestow proclaim disclose reprint oppose

3. Three-syllable words with the primary stress on the first syllable.

amulet polisher gallantry arrogant decibel
coroner violet avalanche arbiter caliber
palpable anarchy difficult portable condiment
benefit deficit flammable bigotry personnel

4. Three-syllable words with the primary stress on the second syllable.

arrival connivance conjecture consortium commercial
monarchial aroma continuous ambitious completion
defective imperfect persona coercion insomnia

5. Three-syllable words with the primary stress on the third or final syllable.
understand warranty lemonade jamboree
conjugate overthrow undermine impolite

6. Four-syllable words with the primary stress on the first syllable.

adversary commentary incandescent temporary
aviary mortuary oligarchy mandatory

7. Four-syllable words with the primary stress on the second syllable.

congressional biology histology ferocity
belligerent impeccable transferable commendable
ambivalent conditioner injectable
8. Four-syllable words with the primary stress on the third syllable.
obligation anarchism machination charismatic
accidental manufacture departmental ambidextrous

9. Five-syllable words with the primary stress on the second syllable.

romanticism commercialism conventionalize refrigerator
consideration industrialize sophistication Catholicism

10. Five-syllable words with the primary stress on the third syllable.
photosynthesis personality archipelago operational
parliamentary elementary beneficiary temporarily
chronological choreography sedimentary metropolitan

11. Five-syllable words the primary stress on the fourth syllable.

Accommodation characteristics appreciation temperamental
Socialization authoritarian pronunciation antagonistic
Consideration classification alliteration precipitation