Changing stress in word families

1. Shifting stress in word families.

Listen to these words from the same word family. Note how the main stress is different in one case.

sigNIFicance
sigNIFicant
SIGnify
insigNIFicant
sigNIFicantly

Listen to the following word families, and say whether the stress is always the same or sometimes different.

2. Shifting stress in word families (continued).

Listen again, and mark the word that has the different stress from the other two.

3. Practice.

Practise saying these pairs of words.

1.	theory	theoretical
2.	final	finality
3.	investigate	investigation
4.	consequence	consequential
5.	isolate	isolation
6.	method	methodical

4. More practice.

Now practise saying these word families.

1.	theory	theorise	theoretical
2.	construct	construction	constructive
3.	evidence	evident	evidently
4.	finality	finalise	final
5.	emerge	emergence	emergent
6.	investigate	investigator	investigation
7.	consequence	consequential	consequently
8.	isolate	isolated	isolation
9.	distinctive	indistinctive	distinction
10.	method	methodical	methodically