Activity guide and evaluation rubric – Unit 2 – Task 4 –

Suprasegmentals

WORKSHOP 2_ COLLABORATIVE EXERCISES

1. Answer the following questions:

What is a phoneme?
What is rhythm in English language pronunciation?
What is intonation in English language pronunciation?
What is stress in English language pronunciation?
What is the difference between syllable stress and word stress in
sentences?

2. Take a look at the following list of words.

Basically, stress words are considered CONTENT or FUNCTION words.
So, write in front of each word: Content or Function, according to the
meaning of stress in English language pronunciation.

-The first one is done for you.

Words Content or function?

The Function
America
She
Drive
Beautiful
Where
On
Visit
Carefully
Don´t
opposite
Peter
kitchen
but
they
often
read
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3. Mark in bold what you think is the stress syllable on the

following words, the first is done for you.

1. daredevil: deredevil
2. deactivate
3. deputation
4. deputy
5. deregulation
6. derelict
7. dermatitis
8. derogatory
9. desecrate
10. discrimination
11. dishonest
12. dishwater

13. Watch the following video about stress and intonation

Underline the stressed words in the following sentences.
-The first one is done for you

1. John is coming over tonight. We are going to work on our

homework together.
2. Ecstasy is an extremely dangerous drug.

3. We should have visited some more castles while we were

traveling through the back roads of France.

4. Jack bought a new car last Friday.

5. They are looking forward to your visiting them next January.

6. Exciting discoveries lie in Tom's future.

7. Would you like to come over and play a game of chess?

8. They have been having to work hard these last few months on

their challenging experiment.

9. Shakespeare wrote passionate, moving poetry.

10. As you might have expected, he has just thought of a new

approach to the problem

5. Write the words corresponding to the following phonetic

transcriptions:
/ðæn/…………. /ˈkeɪk/………… /ˈfeɪθ/………… /ˈhuː/………

/ˈθruː/…………. /ˈkluː/…………. /ˈeɪt/………… /ˈfəʊldər/………

/ˈteɪbəl/……… /ˈfaɪl/……... /ˈfɑːsən/……… /ˈtæŋ/……….

6. Write the IPA symbol for the first sound in each of the following
words

a. Philosophy………. d. knowledge ……………. g. her …………

b. use ……………… e. Chemist ………………… h. honorable ………

c. caught ……………. f. through ………………… i. clown…………

7. Using the IPA symbols, provide 2 examples for each type of place
of articulation

bilabial ...................

alveolar................

labio-dental .............

palatal ................

inter-dental .............

glottal ................
8. Using the IPA symbols, provide 1 example for each type of manner
of articulation.

plosives ...................................

fricatives .................................

affricates ..............................

approximants ...........................

nasals .......................................

laterals ...................................

9. Transcribe from IPA to English text the following sentences

1. /ˈaɪ heɪt ˈiːtɪŋ suːp/

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2. / ˈlaɪf ˈɪz ˈbɛtər wɛn ju ˈhæv kæts/

______________________________________
3. / bɜːdz ˈɔːlweɪz ˈiːt wɜːmz/

_______________________________________
4. /kʌm wɪθ mi tu ˈsiː ði stɑrz /
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10. Write the phonetic symbol for the first sound in each word
Judge: ___________
Easy: ____________
Pneumonia: _______
Contact: ___________
Phone: __________
Civic: ____________
Usually: ____________
University: _________
Hospital: ___________
11. Write the phonetic symbol for the final sound in each word

Beds: _________
Bets: __________
Nest: __________
Bathes: ________
Belts: _________
Twelfth: ________
Fifths: _________
Next: __________
Lapsed: ________