SS2 ENGLISH LANGUAGE THIRD TERM WEEK TWO

CONTENT

1. Speech Work: Speech Skills – Stress Patterns
2. Comprehension/Vocabulary Development: Words Associated with Law and the Judiciary
3. Structure: Adverbial Phrases
4. Writing Skills: Free Writing – Features of Drama
5. Summary: Summarizing in a Specified Number of Words – Solutions to Unemployment (NOSEC. Pages 172-173)

ASPECT: Speech Work

TOPIC: Stress Patterns

Introduction to Stress Patterns

Previously, you learned that if you have a combination of two nouns, the first noun is spoken with more stress than the second noun. This is the Type 1 stress pattern. This applies whether the two nouns are joined when written, hyphenated or not joined at all. (It also applies to a few examples where the first word is not a noun, such as “a medical school”, “the legal system” and “the financial sector”. These adjectives are used to express the type of school, system and sector, not to describe them.) The vast majority of noun + noun combinations fit the Type 1 stress pattern.