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T Sounds: Formal Word Stress in Sentences

As you repeat the following sentences, practice the main techniques of word stress:
  • stress important words
  • reduce small words
  • speak in phrases and pause between phrases
  • let words flow together
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Planning the Day


1. I have an important meeting at 8:00AM.
2. There are ten line items on the agenda.
3. The team that is monitoring customer data will identify positive and negative points.
4. Our team is presenting a strategy for dealing with threatening, competitive companies.
5. Our meeting will be live on the internet and some coworkers in other countries will participate virtually.
6. In the afternoon, I plan to venture out of the office, and get a salad at a nearby cafe.
7. During lunch, I'll scrutinize my notes and highlight fundamental objectives or procedures.
8. From 2:00 to 5:00, our team will develop the subtle points of our strategy.
9. After work, there's a big going away party for my coworker.
10. After twenty years of work, he was known as a fixture at the company.*
11. I'll know five or six people, but most people will be acquaintances.
12. Actually, it'll be a good chance to network with a lot of enterprising people.

*in the word twenty, the second T is usually silent, even in formal speech









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