Practice saying and adjusting stress from the passage in the book.
People have been coming to the wise man, complaining about the same problems every time. One day he told them a joke, and everyone roared in laughter.
After a couple of minutes, he told them the same joke, and only a few of them smiled.
When he told the same joke for the third time, no one laughed anymore.
The wise man smiled and said: “You can’t laugh at the same joke over and over. So why are you always crying about the same problem?
Practice saying and adjusting stress for content words.
One day, two best friends were walking on a lonely and dangerous path through a jungle. As the sun began to set, they grew afraid but held on to each other. Suddenly, they saw a bear in their path. One of the boys ran to the nearest tree and climbed it in a jiffy. The other boy did not know how to climb the tree by himself, so he lay on the ground, pretending to be dead. The bear approached the boy on the ground and sniffed around his head. After appearing to whisper something in the boy’s ear, the bear went on its way. The boy on the tree climbed down and asked his friend what the bear had whispered in his ear. He replied, “Do not trust friends who do not care for you.
