 Intermediate

Lesson Plan
Business/Materials Lesson Objectives

Slides By the end of the lesson, students should be able to:

Video of Richard Crosby excerpt - define word stress
from Friends - identify number of syllables in words
- differentiate stressed and unstressed syllables

Warm-up and Objective Discussion

Recap:

- Teacher to elicit responses to questions about proper enunciation. The following

questions can be asked:
o What have you learnt about proper enunciation?
o Why is proper enunciation important?

Instruct and Model  R  W  L  S

Putting Enunciation & Word Stress Together

- Students to watch the video “Richard Crosby” and teacher to elicit responses to the
following questions:
o What were some repeated words in the clip?
o Richard Crosby and Joey were speaking very quickly – how were you able to
understand what they were saying despite them speaking so rapidly?
o For each of the words, how many syllables did each word have, and was each syllable
spoken the same way?

Guided Practice  R  W  L  S

Main Activity: Word Stress

- Teacher to define “Word Stress” and explain how in English, we do not say each
syllable with the same force or strength. Rather, in one word, we accentuate one syllable very
loudly and the other syllables very quietly.
- Students to pronounce “photograph”, “photography” and “photographic” and
demonstrate drawing stress patterns based on these three words.
- Teacher to select students to draw stress patterns on the board for the following words
and correct misunderstandings:
o Red
o Dollar
o Receive
o Quantity
o Computer
o Guarantee
o Technology
o Contribution

Independent Practice  R  W  L  S

Group Activity: Get Out Of The Maze

- Teacher to divide students into 4 groups, based on ability. Teacher to explain that
students will have to apply what they have just learnt about identifying syllables and word
stresses to complete an activity.
- Each group to be given a maze and issued the following instructions:
o Follow the correct sequence of words to make your way from the start of the maze to
the finish
o The first group to make their way out and verifies their answer with the teacher wins.
- After the first two groups have completed, the game ends. These groups to share their
answers and pronounce the words loudly in front of the class.

Assessment  R  W  L  S
Homework: Students to complete a exercise on identifying word stress.