What if you don't have time to cover everything in The Guide? Don't worry! The Complete Guide to the TOEFL® Test, iBT Edition was designed so that you can skip parts of the exercises and lessons and still improve your students' scores. | 528 Section 3 Guide to Speaking Most rules for word stress are too numerous and complicated to be helpful. However here are a few simple guidelines to help you predict stress in academic words. These are simply guidelines and there will be exceptions Guideline 1 Most 90 two-syllable nouns have first-syllable stress. LECture PROBlem STUdent Guideline 2 Many two-syllable academic verbs have second-syllable stress. exPLAIN ocCUR reQUIRE Guideline 3 Many two-syllable noun-verb pairs differ according to stress. Nouns have first-syllable stress and verbs have second-syllable stress. Noun Verb Noun Verb OBject obJECT CONtract conTRACT PROject proJECT PERmit perMIT Where s your PERmit to park Does the school perMIT free parking on weekends Guideline 4 Most compound nouns and compounds made up of two nouns have primary stress on the first noun. CLASSroom HOMEwork DISK drive Exercise 4 Find the Stressed Syllable The words in each column have similar stress patterns. First say the words. Then listen to the words being pronounced. Underline the stressed syllable as you listen. Then say the words again. After you have said the words the first time start the Audio Program. 0 Verbs Compound Nouns Nouns Nouns Verbs de fine air port cred it pro duce pro duce ob tain soft ware out come pro gress pro gress pre fer math test con cept con duct con duct se lect health care of fice in suit in suit com pare stock market fac tor rec ord rec ord as sume su per mar ket in put pres ent pres ent Guideline 5 These common suffixes beginning with -i shift the stress to the syllable before the suffix. -ity MAjor mafORity -ic al eCOnomy ecoNOMic -ion apPLY appliCAtion Speaking Tutorial Building Pronunciation Skills 529 Guideline 6 The suffixes -logy and -graphy also shift the stress to the syllable before the suffix. psyCHOlogy biOlogy techNOlogy phoTOgraphy biOgraphy geOgraphy Guideline 7 Notice the important differences between these numbers THIRty thirTEEN or THIR-TEEN FIFty fifTEEN or FIF-TEEN
