Ex.6. Now, read the sentences with some of the words from Ex.5.

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Ex. 5. Read these two-syllable words. Pay attention to the change of the word stress.

Ex. 4. Read the words in the groups below. Pay attention to the word stress.

a) words with the stress on the first syllable:

ancient, attribute, asset, barter, constitute, counterfeit, cumbersome, diamond, dominant, effort, iron, medium, measure, mechanism, origin, output, perishable, precious, privacy, purchase, relatively, standard;

b) words with the stress on the second syllable:

coincidence, commodity, convenient, convertible, criterion, decree, determine, divisible, economy, economist, effect, emergence, essential, millennium, occur, percentage, possess, society, simplicity, spontaneous, withstand;

c) polysyllabic words with the main and secondary stress:

characteristic, electronically, evolutionary, introduction, independently, irredeemable, organization, representative.

1. I try to avoid conflict wherever possible. This conflicts with the police evidence. She is in conflict with her employers over sickness pay.

2. Helen was transferred from marketing to sales. We're currently dealing the paperwork for your transfer. We're transferring our production to Detroit.

3. Learning a foreign language is a slow process. Data is processedas it is received.

4. Food prices increasedby 10% in less than a year. Our costs have increaseddramatically. Sales have been good despite last year's price increases.

5. Profits were $1million, which is a decrease of 5 per cent on last year. Prices are expected to decrease by less than 1% this year. There has been a decrease in the annual birth rate for the last twenty years.