🗣️ Teaching Tip Tuesday: The English Stress System

Feeling stressed about teaching stress? Don’t worry — this is the good kind of stress. 😄

Here’s a quick refresher for the classroom:
🔹 Word Stress – One syllable takes prominence: REcord vs. reCORD.
🔹 Sentence Stress – Content words carry meaning: “I NEED to CALL my FRIEND.”
🔹 Contrastive Stress – Shifting stress changes focus: “I said HE stole the money.”
🔹 Rhythm & Timing – English is stress-timed: “I WANT to GO to the STORE.” (regular beats on stressed syllables)

👏 Try marking stress in dialogues or having students tap the rhythm to build awareness.