In today's class we:
- Looked at syllables and different rules of syllables
- Analysed primary stress in words
- Did an exercise about finding the primary stress of a word (see below)
- Did an exercise creating our own new word with definition (but following basic syllable rules)
- We looked at 2 new monopthongs /e/ (bed, leg) and /iː/ (meat, leave)
- Did an exercise separating different words into the correct categories of their vowel sound
- Did exercises 6.1-6.3
- Pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis
is, according to the Oxford English Dictionary, "a factitious word alleged to mean 'a lung disease caused by the inhalation of very fine silica dust, causing inflammation in the lungs. It has 19 syllables - Looked at the importance of stress in the English language
- Did an exercise on analysing language (Fawlty Towers...episode). Click here to download all of the episodes
In today's class we;
