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How does stress change the meaning of a sentence?
You’ve probably watched movies and wondered why you were missing some of the jokes, or couldn’t follow the conversation even though you heard and understood the words clearly. In this lesson, you’ll find out that a big part of communication is not just language, but how we speak.
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Perfect! Thanbks.
its helpful really
reaaly like your lessons about intonation. Please give us more intonation lessons. I need to learn more so I would not sound like a robot. Thank you!
really it is useful
Perfect! Thanks a lot.
hi my name is Narjice thanks a lot for all teachers and thank you Adam for this lesson but please can you make a video on the diffrence between start and begin or just give an answer here .thanks.
thanks for your simple way ,the lessons are very useful.
Nice lesson, thank you :) And welcome teacher Adam :)
thank you
ı am aturkish.and ı learning english here.thank you for everything
perfect
We are really appreciative for what you are doing here.
as you know nowadays most people apply for studying abroad.
so, I would like to ask you talk about university vocabulary.
The things that a student needs to know about Foreign universities from applying to studying there.
Dear Adam,I like your lesson.Your lesson really,really funny.It makes me smile.
I like very much engvid and I see your for the fist time. You are certainly a new teacher. you are welcome. I enjoyed very much this lesson and I’m looking farward to listening to the next
Hi Adam and welcome in engvid.com! Thanks for your lesson.
Waiting for new lessons I subscribed to your Y.T.Channel!
welcome teacher adam and thanks all your explians
Great lesson thanks Adam!!!
wonderful lesson thanks Adam!!!
Hello Mr, Adam
congratulation
I am so happy about the new teacher in the English Video, I hope learn and improve my english as before.
Good Luck. Mr, Adam
Thank you very much!
thank u i think i understand lesson dispite i got bad mark. maybe i should practice more and more @@
Adam, very pleased to meet you! Your way of teaching is just excellent, and I’m really looking forward to learning from you in the future. Regards!
I scored 10 out of 10. I am really surprising myself! =)
welcome Adam,im very pleased to meet you, and thanks for this lesson, i really appreciate
edlene (brazil)
thank you sir and welcome for us.
A new style of teaching.
I enjoyed it very much.
Welcome teacher! Engvid is going to become even more energetic!
If she stressed the word THAT’S, why didn’t Kathy think that another guy was Lisa’s boyfriend?
Or if she stressed the word LISA’S, why didn’t Kathy think that he was your boyfriend by any chance?
How do we know what was in her mind?
I totally agree what you said!!
Hi Bonhob,
You’re right. t’s hard to tell, especially when you see the stress in writing. If you noticed, the question said what MIGHT the person understand. Of course it could be other things, but I tried to make the answer choices a little more obvious. In reality, the context and the personality of the speaker will be much more helpful in knowing what they intend to communicate. The point to take away from here is to listen carefully to how words are being expressed and realizing that meaning does not rely on surface definitions alone.
Good job pointing this out.
yes it’s absolutely right and you are a great teacher
You are totally right, teacher Adam! It is a good lesson. I really understand what you mean… You are a good teacher. Congratulations!
Thanks Adam for your lesson, welcome to engvid.com, I looking forward to see the next lesson.
Well done ! Thanks a lot.
Looking forward to hearing from You more clever lessons.
hey adam it is realy uesful lesson . Thank u 4 that Iam waiting 4 ur next uesful lesson thanks .
Hi Adam, i’m from Brazil and I’ve been studying very hard, but it’s too difficult to understand native speakers, mainly when they came from US. This class will help a lot. Thanks.
Awesome lesson, thank you
Iam ahmad thank you for this beautiful video i am waiting for your next…, thanks .
Hi Adam. fist of all, welcome. Thank for this important and useful lesson. I’m waiting for your next videos. Hugs
Welcome Mr Adam, Your teaching is very good!! A Good teacher must be an advisor also. We are expecting advices for listening improvement.
Is true, intonation is an important part in every language and sometimes nobody cares about it during the english lessons. Thanks Adam and welcome :)
another useful lesson and another great teacher !
I found this website just googling and it’s very usefull, really! ;)
thanks man, nice lesson, very helpful…
hello adam ,you seem to be a helpful and a useful teacher
Yes i want to see it please may i
thanx
Thank you.
Great! Thanks.
Thanks great class
engvid rules, f’-k yep. keep teachin’ good english. thanks Adam n’ welcome.
welcome Adam to this comunity of students of english, It’s nice to meet new teachers so enthusiastics like you, I hope to see you very soon and be sure I will follow you from Barcelona (Spain)
Adam , good lesson. another good teacher in inved
Thank you for this video Adam. I’m very happy to meet new teachers, so welcome :)
I like your idea and the way you explain it .. thanks adam .
i like your idea and the way you explain it .. thanks adam best regard .
It is pretty clear!!! Fantastic!
Hi,Adam! I have a doubt about the quiz.
Can you ask me what’s the diffence between very and a lot?
Thanks and welcome!
Hi Margaret,
What’s the difference between very and a lot?
:)
Maybe you meant to ask me that. well, ‘very’ is used to describe the intensity of something. ‘A lot’ is used usually to talk about quantity. So… I like you a lot, or I like you very much–same meaning, but you’ll notice that ‘very’ needs the quantity word ‘much.’ Also, ‘very’ can come before a verb, but ‘a lot’ can’t. So… He runs very fast, but not he runs a lot fast.
Does that help?
Thanks for understanding my question rsrsrs, and yes, you help me a lot!
Awesome!
Why is there something wrong with my IE when I watch the lessons vedio? Who can do me a favor,please?
My email is:
zhongdeming@buaa.edu.cn
You might want to check that you have the latest version of IE and the Flash plugin!
Adam, I really like your lesson! I look forward to listening more your lessons indeed.
Thanks a lot :)
very good, thank you so much
a good lesson… bravo
thank you Adam, and wellcome!
Hi Diego, Sorry I’m not your teacher but I noticed a mistake in grammar from you. It something that I used to do too. Welcome is with only one letter L. It´s not Wellcome, It´s Welcome. Excuse me, we’re both learning. Sorry again. Bye
It was a great lesson, although I scored 7 out of 10. I need to pratice more…Thank you Adam
thanks Adam
and wellcome to the world of engengengvid
i got bad mark, so bad arrrr….
but I like the Quiz
Hi Adam, your first lesson was REALLY great :) thank you and wellcome.
Very good¡¡¡ Thanks¡¡¡¡
Very good¡¡¡Thanks¡¡¡¡
Hi There,
Could you please do lesions on following topics/ topic that would cover the following matters?
1. Different between –
a. Alex worked in a company for 4 years (but he is no longer working in the company)
b. Alex had been working 4 years in a company (but he is no longer working in the company)
2. Different between – Need explanations.
a. Julian Assange urged Barak Obama to end “witch hunt” again his website, appearing in public Sunday –
i. Why we are not using On Sunday
ii. Can we write Julian Assange urged Barak Obama to end “witch hunt” again his website, appearing in public on Sunday
3. Which is the correct one & why?
a. Students who have question or
b. Students who has question –
4. Which are correct one & why?
a. Everyone have /Everyone has
b. No one have / No one has
c. Everybody have/ Everybody has
d. Everyone have / Everyone has
e. Dose everyone have ? / Is everyone have?
5. Writing Media’s heading / News heading – what rule they are following?
6. Confusing of using Passive voice – which one is correct & why?
a. Mentally disabled Pakistani girl arrested for blasphemy (from Toronto star news paper)
b. Mentally disable Pakistani girl (was / is / had been / has been) arrested for blasphemy
I would appreciate if you could do lessons to get clear on above confusions matter , it would be helpful for other viewers as well.
Thank You in advance,
Yours truly,
Nila.
Hi Nila,
Lots of stuff here to cover, and I’ll try to get to some of these, but for now, just keep in mind that newspapers and other media forms are working with limited space and sometimes take shortcuts. That being said, once you have good control of grammar rules you can then begin to break them (or at least bend them). I’ll try to show you some examples of this in a future lesson.
1. b. It happened before something else happened
3. a. Students who have questions… (Students are plural)
4. a. Everyone has… b. No one has.. c. Everybody has… d. Everyone has… People are…
6. a. disabled is an adjective that means lacking one or more of the physical or mental abilities that most people have
Hi, Adam, how are you? Welcome to the world of EngVid. I am very happy about your lesson and the way you teach. I am expecting more lessions from you and I am looking forward to watcing more and more lessions from you. Thanks a lot.
Hi Adam, thank you very much and Welcome. The explanation was quite clear. What’s more, REALLY did not know that had many meanings. And I realized that the intonation is very important to interpret the ideas and speak clearly. Thank you again.
actually,I like this video and way of your teaching……. thank you Adam…
it’s a very helpful and useful lesson, … thank you so much teacher
VERY HELPFUL THANKS
Thank you teacher your style in a beautiful explanation.
Thank you very much I wish see many lesson.
Extraordinary, Useful , Really good …
Oh,’really!?!!
U r a new prof.!Welcome.
Brilliant it was,many thx.
9/10
Good luck with ur job,keep it up plz!
This is one of the great lessons on Engvid. I wonder if I can be teacher on Engvid someday! By the way, I am English teacher here in Pakistan. I have taught many students who can now speak and understand English very well.
useful….tnks so much…..
Well done teacher, i hope watch more videos….you speak very clear !!
Very nice your explanation teacher!!….I want more!!
Welcome
Very helpfull Adam, please send more videos like this.
thanx a lot sir Adam .
Good! Thanks for the lesson!
hi, Adam. very clarifying this lesson – really important. I liked it very much. it’s the first time i take a lesson from you and i have to say that you are a great teacher. you are right. sometimes, when i watch movies, i see that the actors say something that doesn’t fit very well with the situation if you pick only the real meaning of the words, but from now on, i’ll pay more atention to the intonation. i am sure that, in this way, i’ll understand the exact meaning of the sentence because i’ll understand the language based on the context, on the situation.
Thank you mr.Adam
great work.
thanks, Teacher Adam and welcome…
oh it realy good
Thanks Adam.
It was excellent.i got some odea about stress patterns………..thanks Mr Adam
Hi Mr Adam, i’m a student in high school, i love this web and all teachers too.
Thanks for giving us those helpful lessons, i have improved a lot..:D
this really helps Mr. Adam. :) tnx.
thanks a lot
Welcome Adam!
Thank you for the very warm welcome everyone. I hope to provide you with more quality lessons in the future. I look forward to your comments.
Take care
:)
Omg, that´s a great website and many thanks for teaching. take care
Adam ! What is your orgin ? Are you Turkish or did you live in Turkey…?
Your accent is strange
Hello Alex :)
Could you explain me the meaning of LAY DOWN? Like in a song “don’t want to let it lay me down this time…”
SORRY! I meant Adam, of course :)))
Hi there,
Here,lay down means “2 give up”.
Goooooooodlucccccccccck!
:) Fatima is right, it means to give up, surrender.
Hi mr. Adam,
could you please work more on pronuciation.i really need to get my pronuciation right.i’m a student,studying english litrature and i need help with learning elemnets of poet
i’ll be grateful :)
Like. Thanks very much.
Great, wonderful class, i undertood everything that you said and the mening about this subject is very very good, it’s a diferent way we could say about theaching ESL language. i’ve been studying English by skype with some new yorkers theachers and i can tell it’s a very good way to learn too. Congratulations for your class and keep doing something diferent as you did. Great.
good
Thanks Mr.Adam. And It would be interesting to see if some of the Nila’s point can be cover in your future lessons. Because I also have almost same questions and I hope others also have same questions and I find media articles are confusing and looks like breaking the grammar rules and it was nicely said that “media has limited space” and now I understand why always media articles are so confused and I’m waiting to see new lesson that will Nila’s concern.
Thanks and well come to Engvid.
Best Regards,
Tamil Eelavan.
(From Toronto)
You scored 10 out of 10.
Yeaaaah :D Thanks Sir
Hi, I am Mary. I loved this class.It is very helpful^^
thanks Adam, it challenge me a lot. going to deep to learn English really am..
IT WAS VERY INTERESTING WATCHING THIS VIDEO …THANKS
Hello Adam!! Welcome at EngVid.com! Nice lesson =]
Thank you …
really nice….
thanks sir, i liked it and i am a new learner of English language and i liked your teaching way and looking forward to more lessons.
Hello Adam Welcomeee that is so useful!!
Really when i watched us movie cant understand i can catch the word what they say, like you told must watching alot speak alot.. Thank you^^
Really a nice lesson
You are a superstar teacher too
thanks
Thank you
Is very good lesson for me,I think for others. I like your speaking on English. I should like to continue others interesting lessons. Because you have only two lessons. and language is understanding for foreins.If I have any with the sentences please correct me
adam the best teacher!
I can understand everything! thanks!
Thanks Adam your english is very clear I undestood every word you said.
THANK YOU SO MUCH TEACHER /ADAM FOR GOOD LESSON IT’S QUITE CLEAR .
GOD BLESS YOU AND MORE POWER TO YOU
Thank you very much for this very helpful lesson!
Hi!
that was “REALLY” useful! Is there a way to download videos?
awesome!You focused on the real communication skills and that’s what I really wanted. What a grrrrrreat point you’ve picked! I look forward to the lectures of yours.
If you’re wondering why a word is or is not in a sentence, you should stress the word which means to say it louder no matter how many syllables it has.
You’re great!
Thank you a lot!!
HI, Adam i think that you are a very good teacher,your lessons are very easy to understand.
thanks a lot.
Like your lesson so much. Looking forward to learn more.
Thank you teacher.
EngVid is the best site ever.
Hi,Adam. I am from Cambodia. I found your clip very useful. I have studied English in ages, but it is still hard to understand English native speakers. Could you tell some technique to study English faster? Thanks in advance, from Phnom Penh.
thanks to you sir .It was so helpful 4 me …but I have a question please ..waht is the difference If I say (so good) and (very good ) ??? thanks you
I am really happy the way you teach. Thank you
Thank you so much
I think that it’s very difficult to understand the situations in this test. For example, the sentence about Lisa’s boyfriend (6), i can think that he is very handsome for Lisa (she is ugly) and that’s why I’m so surprised or really i thought that he is Lisa’s friend. Please, correct me if i’m wrong
i agreed with u elimy. it is for native speakers ..we said.. but we can learn little by little .. what do u do? r u interested in english chatting on gtalk? or any one else from here for pratice .. plz write me tnx adm for good lecture..
thanks for all but he helped me to to understand more
Thank u sir iam learning english i read . learn but i have no one with tyr my english but iam not lost my hope
It was a simple and super lesson… No language center here teaches intonation as I heard about them. You all guys doing super job in spreading education. We will definitely would not forget you throughout our life. Be blessed.
Very. Interesting
It is what I haven’t known before
Thank you very much
very nice Sir.Adam :D i ( Really ) learnd alot today :D :D
Greating from EGYPT :D
I really need to learn more about intonation. I’m still weak in this subject.
More videos please!! you’re great!!
Hi Mr. A seems like Engvid family is getting bigger.Welcome!
I really like your pofile’s statement.i live on the Washington dc area for a while already.I speak english fluently ith an accent since this is not my native tongue.My dream is do hat you have already done.live abroad and help peolple to get over the language barrier that once back in the time when i started this path was a huge obstacle between me and the natives.
how long do you think would it take me to learn the didactic to be able to stand infront an student classroom and have a acceptable teaching performane?
Thanks!
Awesome lesson, thank you. English is very difficult for me, but i am trying and trying.my scored is 4/10
Thank you very much. :)
excelent dear :)
GOOD LECTURE AND I UNDERSTOOD
Nice lesson!! Thanks! I’ m lucky i have discovered these lessons because I don’ t know noneone native English speaker…
very interesting …i liked it alot
Excellent and very clear explanation. I couldn’t believe all the meanings that a simple sentence like that could have, but it’s true. Thanks a lot for this lesson, I’m sure it’ll help me out next time I watch a movie :-)
So good lesson Adam!!!
Thank you so much.
Perfect! Thanks a lot.
i have never seen such a helpful site ever.it help me a lot thanks all of the teachers
Thanks a lot
i have googled alot lookink for words’ stress and sentence’s…and i find u adam..u gave me a light in that strange field of phonetics..thanks a lot..but according to u we can stress any word in a sentence.. i’ve found in a scholar book(stress falls on content words than function ones ,..key words giving important information..) please help../algiers
Thank you Adam!
Such a nice teacher!
I subscribe your yt channel!
Hi Mr. Adam ,
Welcome in engvid.com.
We need avideo about syllable stress / accented
syllables.Thank you in advance.
We all use the same way to express, but its really cool to refresh these information for us thats help us to think about it deeply
great lesson i like it a lot!!!!. thank yu so much and welcome…
very interesting and useful… Thanks a lot.
I really like your lesson.Thank you
Thank you, Adam!
It’s my first time in engiv.com and your lesson was my first one in this site. I am really happy that I can understand you completely. These tools of punctuation are part of any language but up to now I haven’t thought about that in english. Your short lesson was very helpfull for me.
Thanks Adam ,your are doing very well.have a good one .
Thanks a lot Adam! You’re just amazing!
hi Adam i want to know that how to speak fluent English .i have some hesitation problem.
Would this lesson on hesitation devices help?
Thanx Adam.And I want to know how to start perpetration for IELTS .i mean basic tips.I m going to appear for exam in next month.And i m confused how ill start my prepartion.
Thanks a lot Mr. Adam. its was nice.
Thank you very much! It was really helpful ;) 70/100% – it wasn’t bad as I thought…
hi adm sorry i can not understand the lesson
You got 8 correct out of 10.
:)
Thanks very much Adam ,but this lesson make me confused sort of ,can you give us more lessons like this to understand well ?
boss thanks a lot.. could you help me about the subordinate conjunction.. sometimes i made a mistake to use a conjunctions when i am having a conversations with other people. this is my second language and i want to enhance it as well.
I like your lesson.I liked the part when you are telling meanings of the word “really”.I hope you teach us a lot.Have a good time.
I liked the video. I am looking forward to watch another video from you. I now understand that a sentence can have more than one meaning after watching this video.
Thanks Adam. You’re really a good teacher. It is very useful for all. I have ever visited such a useful site before. Further more, I’m slowly improving my English. Thanks again to all the teachers. Have a nice day!
Hi tezen1, excuse me but I’m going to work and live to your country, in Kathmandú, I’d like to talk to you about your country, if you want.
My e-mail is webcgomez@gmail.com
It was perfect video, and perfect way of teaching English. I enjoyed a lot.
I’m studying because in the near future time I hope i will take the Teaching English certification.
i’m going to prepare my first lesson on line and your explanation it was so perfect about the stress and intonation.
I would like to know something more about this subject.
Can i have some help from you please?
a
a lot of greetings.
rafaela
A splendid lesson!
Grrr, i got 5 correct answers…its ok, Thank you so much fot the lesson…its really usefull :D
Thanks!!!
hahaha ^^ that was great ! thank you sir … i’m excited for the next lesson
It’s very fantastic lesson…o!really!
wow out of 10 i got 5 correct hehehe i need to practice more and maybe put myself into the scenario :)
This is awesome and very useful.
I can’t thank you enough.
your teaching style is very interesting. Thanks Adam…
thaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaank you _^
is there any problem with this website ? please let me know
This was a lesson which i have been waiting for….you watered this topic for me…..thankx Adam……thanx a lot…..and keep going, you really do well….. congratulations…….let me fix all this intonations in my language too……bye take care…….
very interesting, thanks sir
Thanks for online video lesson it is very helpfull and understanding and speaking ,because ı have lived in USA 11 years,but my problem is writing( punctuations)and ı advise the other students pls try to watch alots of movies…
very great lessons, thnx…
Now that’s really funny at the same time crucial too.
Thanks for your lesson .But i think it’s not easy to understand all .I need to drill more exercises by watching movies, listening to dialogues…
M
thank you
very nice
but could you give us lessons in English Business?
i repeat my thanks for your efforts
Really I love your lessons
Thank you, Adam. We are happy for having you as our teacher! I have already watched all the videos you have done. They are very useful!
thank you very much foruseful lesson.could you tell me what ishoud do to pass toefl test
thank you so much teacher It’s very fantastic lesson ”.I hope you teach us a lot.Have a good time.
you are a great teacher i love your teaching style. thanks
i must to learn very hard :(
The explanation of material is great
6 out of 10 :(((
Thanks a lot Mr. Adam. its was nice. but I have Question
in quiz,Question first why we chose this answer
. You are walking along a shopping street with a friend. You stop in front of a shop window and look at the display there. You see a multi-coloured sweater on sale and tell your friend you want to go in and buy it. Your friend replies “You want that?”
If your friend stressed the word you, you might understand that:
He has certain opinions about you and you are surprising him now
HAPPY NEW YEAR !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Very nice! I understood the lesson.
Thanks a lot
thank you so much ..i am surprised because it is free website
thank you Adam
Thank you! It was very helpfull!
Really Nice Thta’s What I was Loooking for:D
Thank ya :D
you give me a positive feeling. i like your teching way.thanks for that
teaching
Thank you
Reallllllllllllllllly it is nice. thank ou
thanks very much Adam
You are very very very good teacher. Thank you very much!
I got 6 correct out of 10.
:(
Good lesson, thank you.
Excelente curso y ademas pensado para que se entienda fácil. Solo una cosa me llama la atención: ¿es dirigido solamente a países de habla inglesa? Porque los apoyos van solamente en inglés…Acaso nadie de habla hispana se interesa por el curso?
hello Adam one topics about parents thanks
thanks for teaching and i wold like to learn more english pleace help me
Thanks teacher Adam
It’s a VERY interesting lesson, REALLY ! Thanks Adam.
DEAR SIR
i have a little prob on the usage of ”where”..i know how to use it with all other ways besides this rule please help me..
I wanna know how to use ”where” with these words and what the grammar rule is..pls give me a few examples of your own ones..
1 Due to the volume of emails we receive we are unable to respond to the emails where the answer can be found on our web site itself
2 If you have gone to a website where you have to create an account for yourself..
3 This procedure should be followed in cases where dishonesty has been alleged.
4 I heard a strange noise from the upstairs where the children were playing.
5 There is a stage in life where you can’t even hold a cup of tea.
Thanking you
Roystan
My score is too bad, I feel that I can’t learn English At all my life!!
thank’s
Adam, how can we express stress while writing say, an essay or a paragraph? Can we use the(`) symbol?
Thanks a lot!!
I realized again that English is very curious language.
When speaking, I have to care about accent, pronunciation, and intonation…..
Hmm, seemingly it looks difficult.
I keep all things in my mind at the same time.
I seem to need to get used to speaking English more.
UTTERLY PERFECT …!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Please, make a bit more lessons about sleng and speaking)