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Sentence Stress RhythmSet 1

1A good broadcast script should:

2In the sentence "The dog was desperate to go for a walk, " which word is likely to be stressed?

3I started it last Tuesday.Which of the highlighted final sounds would disappear in fast speech?Choose as many as you think are right.

4The natural rhythm or flow of sounds in speech or poetry is called .....

5What should you remember about your answer in part two of the TOEIC speaking test?

6Choose the stressed words in the following sentence. The students haven't studied for a month.

7What is "fluent speech"?

8What deals with the propriety of stress (intensity of sound or voice) and tone (pitch of sound or voice)?

9Which term refers to the speed at which a speaker delivers a speech?

10When assessing fluency, an interviewer should pay close attention to .....

11Why is sentence stress used?

12Long and short sounds measured according to the beat is .....

13A disorder which includes interruption of the flow of speech that may include hesitations, repetitions, and prolongation of sounds and words.

14What does the term "juncture" refer to in connected speech?

15In the phrase 'What do you want to eat?', which word carries the primary stress?

16Choose important aspect in delivering a presentation clearly

17The most important reason to speak clearly and calmly on a professional phone call is because:

18Rhythm is the sense of movement in speech marked by stress, timing, and quality of syllables.

19In stress-timed rhythm:

20It is the connecting of the final sound of a word to the initial sound of the next.

21Band 2 connected speech attempts are:

22Which is important in a speech choir?

23How can we correct some information that is wrong

24What is required for speakers to maintain the rate of phoneme production over a long period of time?

25The phenomenon where the words or sounds are connected together is .....

26When a word ends in a consonant sound, we often move the consonant sound to the ..... of the next word.

27Which of these is NOT a type of sentence stress?

28Fluency/Continuity is .....

29Which words in a sentence are usually stressed?

30What is connected speech?

31How fast or slow you speak.

32Syllable-timed rhythm states that the time from each stressed syllable to the next will tend to be the same .....

33What aspect of the sample answer does the teacher emphasize for a better delivery?

34According to IELTS criteria, which of the following is an essential element of "Fluency" ?

35The recurrence of stressed and unstressed sounds in poetry

36The speaker should be heard by everyone in the room. This pertains to

37What does supper segmental phonetics connected speech with?

38This refers refers to how slow or fast the speaker is in speech or delivery.

39Why can you only practice good English rhythm by speaking, not by reading out loud?

40What should you do to achieve clarity in speech?

41What does stressing "Can you believe it?" express?

42From which of the following words/phrases would we most easily be able to hear the distinctive feature(s) of a Northern accent?

43Extends from the first stressed syllable up to (but not including) the tonic syllable / nucleus.-> Stressed syllables before nucleus

44The tendency to place the nuclear stress in a content word in utterance final position is

45How does changing stress in 'I love chocolate' affect its meaning?

46Which word is typically stressed in this sentence: "Can you help me?"

47Which of the following is an example of correct sentence stress?

48The speeches of Barack Obama are good examples of .....

49Some languages (French, Spanish) have a different rhythmical structure: called .....

50What are the three elements of Prosody?

51Comprehension specific deficits from RH damage include missing differences conveyed via ..... information.

52A beat or two of silence between words, sentences or ideas in a speech

53What do our brains create that gives us the impression of pauses between words?

54Which word is stressed in the sentence:'She loves to play the piano.'?

55Which of these actions best shows a rhythmic pattern?

56What level or levels do stress and intonation refer to?

57What is prosody in speech?

58Why do connected speech processes occur?

59It is the use of connected speech at the natural speed without hesitation, repetition or self-correction.

60Which of the following can affect a speaker's intelligibility?

61What does rhythm refer to in language?