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Q: How can you help students hear and understand the stress in the word 'banana'

10 years 36 weeks ago in  Teaching & Learning - China

 
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Use phonemic symbols.

 

i.e. / bə 'na: nə /

 

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use the phonemic as suggested above, and underline the syllable that is stressed. Then repetition from each student! (sorry, that is the CELTA approach, not acceptable in China as I have found)

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Stamp your foot on the stressed syllable while saying the word.

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When they say the word banana right when they are about to get to the stressed syllable get one of those foam bats and bonk them on the head! Then they won't forget! You can even ask them afterwards where the stress syllable is and if they get it wrong bonk them on the head again!

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With you, I'd use a baseball bat and stress every syllable  ... Shift+R improves the quality of this image. Shift+A improves the quality of all images on this page.

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There is no stress in bananas - as fruit go they're extremely laid back.

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/be'nane/

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I dont think he got the joke, happywanderer....indecision

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But sometimes that makes it funnier somehow.

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The stress is in the "b", right? 

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Write it in pinyin.

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Don' worry about that. The stress is well taught to Chinese students during their junior high schooling. What you need to do is to remind them: every word has a stress, and stress is as important to English as the tone to Chinese.". Also tell them in a sentence which words need to be pronounced stressed.

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Lots of times they don't even know what the sound coming out of their mouth .    Get them to speak into there voice recorder on their phone till they get the sound that you are teaching them .it is also a  easy home work exercise for them

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when teaching new vocabulary I have a dot put over the stressed syllable, they have to copy it that way, and of course, lot of practice with stumping feet  Smile

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