Task 1: Read the following words as the words in italics

Mind that underlined syllable is stressed:

Pete, he, even, stele, scene, theme, zebra, legal, secret, deed, com plete.

Bike, nice, five, my, cry, wife, write, spider, style, pride, try, wine, idle, knife.

Mary, fare, care, square, vary, scare, bare, pre pare, compare, parents, spare.

More, story, shore, snored, oral, be fore, flora, glory, sore, bored, store.

During, fury, se cure, an nual, en dur e, cu rious, mural.

Fire, tired, re quire, I reland, ad mire, desire, tire, inspire and retire.

Task 2: Read and learn two rhymes. The underlined words are stressed.

1). ‘ Tick ’, the clock says. ‘ Tick, tick, tick.

What you have to do, do quick.

Time is gliding fast away.

Let us act and act today ’.

2). Solomon Grundy born on Monday,

Christened on Tuesday,

Married on Wednesday,

Fall ill on Thursday,

Worse on Friday.

This is the end of Solomon Grundy.

1.2. Language Focus