Read the conversation.
A) What will we eat for dinner?
B) What would you like for dinner?
A) I want pizza.
B) What kind of pizza?
A) I prefer pepperoni.
B)Pepperoni pizza sounds good. What size pepperoni pizza?
A) I think medium is good.
B) If it is a medium size, I would also like to get a salad.
A) So, let’s order our pepperoni pizza and salad.
Practice saying the following. Since these are individual sentences without dialogue, YOU can choose your focus words.
1. When I go to the market, I will buy cookies, bread, and meat.
2. I would go to the party if it will start at an early time.
3. Do you really think we should do it?
4. She would like to go to New York for her birthday.
5. John likes to play basketball with his friends.
6. I have good memories from when I was visiting you.
Story Practice for Sentence Stress!
In a village, lived a carefree boy with his father. The boy’s father told him that he was old enough to watch over the sheep while they graze in the fields.
Every day, he had to take the sheep to the grassy fields and watch them as they graze. However, the boy was unhappy and didn’t want to take the sheep to the fields. He wanted to run and play, not watch the boring sheep graze in the field. So, he decided to have some fun. He cried, “Wolf! Wolf!” until the entire village came running with stones to chase away the wolf before it could eat any of the sheep.
When the villagers saw that there was no wolf, they left muttering under their breath about how the boy had wasted their time. The next day, the boy cried once more, “Wolf! Wolf!” and, again, the villagers rushed there to chase the wolf away.
The boy laughed at the fright he had caused. This time, the villagers left angrily. The third day, as the boy went up the small hill, he suddenly saw a wolf attacking his sheep. He cried as hard as he could, “Wolf! Wolf! Wolf!”, but not a single villager came to help him.
The villagers thought that he was trying to fool them again and did not come to rescue him or his sheep. The little boy lost many sheep that day, all because of his foolishness.
