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  • In last week's lesson, Ona and Marcia talked about shopping and making dinner.

  • They used several compound downs.

  • It helps English learners toe learn the stress or intonation of these now owns.

  • Notice the stress pattern in the compound noun shopping list.

  • Hi, Ana.

  • Do you have the shopping list?

  • We can write it like this to show the first sound is a little louder shopping list.

  • Some food names are compound noun or announce that have two or more words.

  • Let me see.

  • You bought a bunch of bananas, a box of pancake mix, a bag of coffee on a This is all wrong.

  • What do you mean wrong?

  • I bought a jar of peanut butter and a loaf of bread.

  • No, wait.

  • Two loaves of bread.

  • Now you try it.

  • Say these compound knowns and put more stress on the first part of the first word pancake.

  • Mix peanut butter in this lesson on a put some words together to talk about her dinner.

  • You may breakfast.

  • Yes, I call it Let's eat breakfast for dinner, dinner in writing, we can use hyphens to connect the words that modify a noun in this sentence.

  • The two words that get extra stress, our breakfast and the second dinner.

  • We can write it like this.

  • Yes, I call it Let's Eat Breakfast for dinner.

  • Dinner.

  • The stress pattern shows that these are the two most important words of the compound down.

  • Now you try it.

  • Say this sentence with a compound known.

  • I used my credit card to buy everything on my shopping list.

  • Then I got an ice cream cone.

In last week's lesson, Ona and Marcia talked about shopping and making dinner.

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