Improve Your Rhythm

These web resources provide exercises to improve word stress, phrase stress, and intonation. They are great resources for practice in private.
  • Sounds of English (Sharon Widmayer and Holly Gray)
    Apart from sound practice, this site has instructions for word and phrase stress, and intonation. Also see Holly's corner for interactive activities.
  • Kathleen Hanson's Website
    This site offers exercises to practice stress using quia software.
  • Pronunciation Strategies (Carolyn Samuel)
    This site offers audio for suprasegmental practice.
  • English Club (Oxford, UK)
    This site has information on sentence stress, word stress, linking, and homophones.
  • Plato (J. Maidment)
    This site offers three sets of exercises on phrasal stress (sentence prominence). Click on a sentence, listen to the stress, place the stress in the correct word/syllable.
Suggested Activities
  1. Direct your learners to these websites and tell them to consult them during their practice time in private.
  2. Ask your learners to do the interactive activities in these websites.

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