Reading Twice

Worksheet Description

This Word Stress worksheet is a listening exercise where students are expected to distinguish between pairs of words that are pronounced differently. The teacher will read out each pair of words, and students must circle the word that they hear being said twice. Each pair contains words that may look similar but have different meanings and are often stressed differently, such as “seventeen” versus “seventy” or “print out” versus “printout”. The task relies on the student’s ability to carefully listen and identify the word based on the stress pattern used by the teacher.

The worksheet’s objective is to teach students the auditory discrimination of word stress in English pronunciation. It helps students to understand that how a word is stressed can affect its meaning and that even slight differences in pronunciation can distinguish one word from another. This is particularly important for words that may appear visually similar but are actually different in both meaning and pronunciation. Enhancing this skill is vital for effective listening comprehension and clear verbal communication in English.