Some pronunciation practice

In pairs read through the following text and decide where you would pause in speaking this text. There is no “correct” answer here.

The world’s most popular drink is water. You probably knew that already. After all, it’s a basic requirement of life on earth. But did you know that the wolrld’s second most popular drink is coke? And that the human race drinks six hundred million cokes a day? Now, let’s just put that into some kind of perspective. It means that every week of every year people drink enough coke to fill the World Trade Centre.


Now word process the document and press ENTER where you would pause.

Next, read through the text again and decide which words you would stress when you speak it. This time mark in BOLD the stressed words. Where do they come in the language chunks?



Finally, decide which words you would say more slowly and SPACE those words out, just like this.