Sentence Stress

 We want to go.
 We WANT to GO.
 We want to go to work.
 We WANT to GO to WORK.
 We don’t want to go to work.
 We DON'T WANT to GO to WORK.
 We don’t want to go to work at night.
 We DON'T WANT to GO to WORK at
NIGHT.
Sentence Stress
 General rules
 content words are stressed
 structure words are unstressed
Sentence Stress
Content words Example
Main verbs Go, talk, get
Nouns Book, rose, car
Adjectives Red, short, tall
Adverbs Very, quickly,
never
Negative Auxiliaries Aren’t, don’t,
can’t
Sentence Stress
Function words Example
Pronouns I, she, you
Preposition At, on, for
Articles A, an, the
Conjunction And, but
Auxiliary verb Do, be, can
Sentence Stress
 SELL CAR GONE FRANCE?

 SELL my CAR I’ve GONE FRANCE?

 Will you SELL my CAR because I’ve

GONE to FRANCE?
Sentence Stress
 General rules
 content words are stressed
 structure words are unstressed
 the time between stressed words is
always the same
 1 2 3 4
 1 and 2 and 3 and 4
 1 and a2 and a 3 and a 4
 You
should KNOW that
SENtence and WORD
STRESS are VERy
imPORtant !!!
Paragraph & Paragraph Unity
 A paragraph is a collection of
related sentences dealing with a
single topic
 Elements of a Good Paragraph
 Unity
 Development
 Coherence
Paragraph & Paragraph Unity

 My department has just taken in one

new staff. He is a young and good
looking man. His name is Peter. Peter
is a very popular name. I have a cousin
whose name is Peter too. My cousin is
a pilot. Pilot is a well-paid job. I wish I
were a pilot.
 As I enter my aunt and uncle’s house, I go into
a small living room with a fireplace which
almost always is vacant. I also regularly find
my cousins playing computer games, watching
MTV, or viewing movies in the family room. A
kitchen and large formal dining room are
adjacent to the family room. Every night the
family eats dinner at the round wooden kitchen
table where I usually notice a lingering scent of
vanilla candles. Like the living room, the dining
room rarely is used. A small hallway connects
the dining room to a laundry room and one car
garage where I occasionally notice my aunt
loading laundry into the washer or dryer.
Sample
 The way we use banks is currently changing. This is
partly because of the introduction of new technology
in the last ten years. The personal computer and the
internet, for instance,allow customers to view their
accounts at home and perform operations such as
moving money between accounts. At the same time
banks are being reorganised in ways that affect both
customers and staff. In the past five years over 3,000
bank branches have closed in Britain. The banks have
discovered that staffing call centres is cheaper than
running a branch network.
Paragraph & Paragraph Unity
 How to increase paragraph unity
 A topic sentence is a sentence that indicates in a
general way what idea or thesis the paragraph is
going to deal with.
 Topic sentences can occur anywhere in the paragraph
 Not all paragraphs have clear-cut topic sentences
 Topic sentences often have controlling ideas (i.e.
words or phrases that need further explanation)
 Avoid writing topic sentences that are
 too broad; or
 too narrow