Self-check questions

1. What types of word stress do you know?

2. What prepositions usually have strong forms?

3. What is a stress shift?

4. Speak on the usage of weak and strong forms of personal pronouns.

5. What do you remember about sentence stress?

6. What English tones do you know?

7. Read the conversation and mind the words with the sound |q|. Practise the conversation:

A: What shall we have for supper?

B: Would you like bacon and eggs?

A: No, not bacon and eggs tonight. What else have we got?

B: There are some potatoes, and lots of tomatoes. We could have baked potatoes, and a tomato salad.

A: I had a baked potato yesterday.

B: Well then, you can buy some fish and chips, from the shopat the end of the road.

A: OK. Shallwe have a bottle of wine?

B: No, just a jug of water.