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  • Today I'm going to help your English sound more natural by focusing on stress and using

  • it to emphasise how we feel. All that is coming right up.

  • So why is stress so important? 'This is such a good party''I'm so excited right now!' 'This

  • is really good'. Woah! Ok without stress our sentences have no life. So we use stress to

  • help us to show or to indicate what we think is the important information in a sentence.

  • We also use it to emphasise how we feel about something and that's what we are going to

  • focus on today. So we use before adjectives. 'He is so annoying' 'She's so cute' 'Oh my

  • God! It's so cold' And we use such in front of a noun. 'He's such a nice guy' 'That's

  • such a good idea' 'It was such a bad film'. Ok, can you see there that I'm stressing so

  • and such? And they are just emphasising how I feel. It's such a good idea, you know it's

  • not just a good idea, I believe in the idea. It's such a good idea. Alright let's put it

  • into a conversation. A conversation about Game of Thrones. Did you see Game of Thrones

  • last night? No, was it good? ? Oh my God! It was so good. You have to watch it. Ok,

  • cool. I will. Yeah, you've got to watch it, it was such a good episode. Now this stress

  • pattern is commonly used with so and such. That's used all the time. We can also use

  • it with other adverbs so in this sentence 'It really stinks in here' 'Can you actually

  • believe what he just said?' 'I am very tired.' Alright so other adverbs there. We've got

  • really, we've got actually and we've got very. Alright guys it's time for you to practise.

  • Now I'm going to throw up some sentences up here and I want you to say them at home using

  • this natural stress pattern. Ok? Are you ready? Here we go.

  • Alright guys, I hope you have enjoyed that. I hope you found that useful and I hope that

  • your English will now sound more natural with this stress pattern. If you would like more

  • videos on pronunciation or stress then let me know in the comments below. Please give

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  • every Tuesday and every Friday helping you take your English to the next level. Thank

  • you so much for hanging out with me guys. This is Tom, the chief dreamer, saying goodbye.

Today I'm going to help your English sound more natural by focusing on stress and using

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