FIVE WORD SYLLABLES

ENGLISH LANGUAGE SS2 SECOND TERM

WEEK SIX

THEME: SPEECH WORK

FIVE WORD SYLLABLES

PERFORMANCE OBJECTIVE

Students should be able to;

1. Identify five words syllables
2. Use dictionaries to check where the stress falls.

CONTENT

Here are few Five Syllable Words. To understand word stress, we have to understand syllables. Words have one or more syllables. A syllable is a unit of pronunciation. It consists of either a vowel sound alone or a vowel and one or more consonant sounds. Notice that (with a few rare exceptions) every syllable contains at least one vowel (a, e, i, o or u) or vowel sound. Every word is made from syllables. Each word has one, two, three or more syllables.

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