ESL Lounge Word Stress and Syllable Exercises
ESL Lounge Word Stress and Syllable Exercises gathers three sets of practice on stress patterns and syllable counting, fourteen exercises in all. Published by ESL Lounge, an English teaching site for students and teachers, the page groups them by task: matching a word to its stress pattern, picking out the word stressed on the first syllable, and finding the word with the most syllables.
100% Free (unlimited): All fourteen exercises on the page open and mark themselves in the browser, with no account, no registration and no payment, and a learner may repeat any of them. The other three pages of pronunciation exercises on the site work the same way.
How It Helps Your Business English
Three groups of exercises sit on the page. In the first, four exercises, a word is matched to a stress pattern written in capital and small letters, so that Italian goes with oOoo. In the second, four more, the word stressed on its first syllable is picked out of three. The third, six exercises, asks which of the words given has the most syllables.
You can work on the shape of a word before its meaning: the pattern-matching set trains you to count beats, and the first-syllable set makes you choose between three words that look alike. A set takes a few minutes, which makes it a practical warm-up before a call. The syllable exercises are the ones to turn to when a long word keeps coming out with the wrong number of beats.
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