Financial English pronunciation four syllable word stress
Syllable counting
Find the four-syllable words in these phrases:
- subordinate remaining debt
- restructuring fee
- limitations on dividends
- material indebtedness
- involuntary bankruptcy
- cancellation of the licences
- misrepresentation of any certificate
- confidential
Word stress
Write those four-syllable words in these columns by stress pattern:
| o O o o | o o O o |
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Check as a class or with the suggested answers. Then work together to pronounce them the right way, first going down the same column, then moving from column to column.
Ask your partner then teacher about any you are not sure of the meaning of, saying the words you have questions about (not just pointing at them). Then test each other on the words:
- point at one for your partner to say
- hum the word stress and see if your partner can say a matching word (with other words not in this lesson also okay)
- say a word and see if your partner can explain it
- say a word and see if your partner can say it in an example sentence
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Suggested answers
| o O o o | o o O o |
| subordinate remaining restructuring material indebtedness involuntary certificate | limitations cancellation confidential |
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