Group 3

Emphasis
 Member

Thanh Huyền Phương Thảo

453141 453143
Huyền Anh GiaBình
Thu Hoài -

453140 453144
453142
1. Definition
3. How we use

2. Why we use 4. How to improve

 Stress
content word
Nouns Negatives
Verbs Wh - word
Adjectives Interjections
 Stress
content word
Focus word
Is the most important to the
meaning
Focuc word
The last content word
1
in a group
2 New information
Native
English
speakers

Emphasis
Emphasis
express a message
express emotions
why we use
"emphasis" Used to emphasize emotion or
contrast.

Emphasis on pronunciation

To make your writing more

genuine, we need to use
phrases for emphasis.
To emphasize, for long ideas, when
we use the linking words: first(ly),
second(ly), third(ly),...
1. Used to emphasize emotion or
contrast
.

Emphasize what we want to say

Wo r d You do look nice today!
Increase contrast and opposition

Phrase I don’t see my family much, but I do visit my

mother occasionally

Show that what is expected or

scheduled is happening.
I thought I’d pass the exam, and I did pass
2. Emphasis on pronunciation

Wo r d Phrase
Jane phoned me yesterday

Jane phoned me yesterday

Jane phoned me yesterday

Jane phoned me yesterday

 3. To make your writing more genuine we need to use
phrases for emphasis.

To emphasize something, we start a

Emphasis sentence with another phrase or clause
instead of the subject
This question we have already discussed at
some length.

Any video in our catalogue we

can supply, if available. Key information
4 . To e m p h a s i z e , f o r l o n g i d e a s , w h e n w e
use the linking words: first(ly),
second(ly), third(ly),..

The training programme was a great success. Firstly, it was practical.

Secondly, it was effective. And thirdly - and most important - it gave us the
best value for our money.
How we give “emphasis” in
English
 2. Inversions
1.Using cleft sentence
It’s a way of cutting a sentence in half so that you can give emphasis to
the importance or new information

It is/was + emphasis + that + rest of message .

EX: Rosa gave me a gift yesterday.

It was Rosa that gave me a gift yesterday

It was a gift that Rosa gave me yesterday

It was yesterday that Rosa gave me a gift

 2. Inversions
Ex2:
Ex1:
A: What do you think about the movie?
A: What do you think about the movie?
B: Amazing. Never have I been so scared. The B: Amazing. I have never been so scared. The
basement scene was so frightening. basement scene was so frightening.

Start with an adverb (never, not only, at

the point…)
Put an auxiliary verb before the main
clause
3.Emphatic auxiliary verb
A: You are not coming to the party tonight, right?

B: I am coming. Why do you think like that?

A: Last time, you looked so upset.

B: I was rather tired but I did have a good time.

4. Stressing words
Ex 1:
What time is Jane flying to Hanoi tomorrow ? - He
isn’t flying to Hanoi tomorrow.
not tomorrow
Ex 2:
What time is Jane flying to Hanoi tomorrow? - He isn’t
flying to Hanoi tomorrow.
not by plane
 Way to improve EMPHASIS for
students.
They should practice stressing content words in their
We need to master grammar
1 speech so that other people will understand them.
theory.

Self- practicing is also a way to Listen to short recordings of everyday dialogues and
2
improve emphasis skills. then 'shadow read' the script, or read it along with the
tape using the same stress as the speaker.

Note down or record some examples of everyday

conversations and repeat them as often as possible.
 The end
Thanks for listening!