Diphthongs, Word Stress and Intonation
1. Observe
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A: What should I do if I cannot open my computer files?
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B: Analyse your computer.
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A: And if there is a virus.
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B: Wait for the final anti-virus diagnosis. It will restart the system.
In complex interrogative sentences: we use a falling tone and mark it on the last word of the result part and rising tone on the last word of the condition part.
In answers we use a falling tone and mark it on the last word.
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A: What will you do if you don’t find a job?
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B: I will go back to university.
Do The Task
In each list identify the word that contains the indicated diphthong
- Tall-toy-doll /ɔɪ/
- Are-car-aisle /aɪ/
- Hit-bit-here /ɪə/
- Ten-day-pen /eɪ/
- Door- poor- bought /ʊə/
- No-dot-not /əʊ/
- Debt- air- pet /eə/
- Look-took-drought /aʊ/
- /ɔɪ/ Toy
- /aɪ/ Aisle
- /ɪə/ Here
- /eɪ/ Day
- /ʊə/ Poor
- /əʊ/ No
- /eə/ Air
- /aʊ/ Drought
There are eight diphthongs
1. /ɔɪ/ |
2. /aɪ/ |
3. /ɪə/ |
4. /eɪ/ |
5. /ʊə/ |
6./əʊ/ |
7. /eə/ |
8. /aʊ/ |
Boy-coin |
I - Try |
Beard – Dear |
Gay – pray |
Tour Pure
|
Know Dough
|
Bear Dare |
Bough Drowsy |
Remember that a diphthong is a combination of two vowels in one syllable. Therefore, short words composed of one diphthong have no stress
drought- /draʊt/
buy- /baɪ/
know- /noʊ/
dear-/dɪər/
However, short words composed of a triphthong have a stress as a triphthong is a combination of three vowels in two syllables.
- Science/’saɪəns/
- Diet/ˈdaɪ.ət/
- Quiet /’kwaɪət/
- Hour /’aʊər/
1-/aɪ.ə/ fire-buyer
2-/ɔɪə/ destroyer-loyal
3-/aʊə/ ‘ hour-power
4-/eɪə/ player-layer
5-/əʊə/ mower-lower
Choisir la réponse correcte de la liste
Which syllable is stressed in each word?
- Technology****
- Technological****
- Solution****
- Static****
- Statistics****
The word stress rules concerning :
- Nouns ending in “ics”, tion/ sion and adjectives ending in “ic” are stressed on the second syllable from end:
- Mathematics
- Civilization
- Revision
- artistic
- Adjectives ending in “al” and nouns ending in “cy”,”gy”,”ty” and “phy”are stressed on the third syllable from end.
- Biological - bi’ology
- policy
- responsibility
- إختبارات
- 12
- الأجوبة الصحيحة
- False
- الأجوبة الخاطئة
- False
- مجموع النقاط
- False
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