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Hello and welcome to Six Minute Vocabulary. I'm Catherine. And I'm Finn.

Catherine, look at this photo. Do you like it? I took it this morning. Wow, that's not bad. Okay, I didn't know you were into photography.

Well, I. I love taking photographs. Really?

Well, funnily enough, the words photography and photograph are good examples of today's topic, which is what stress we're going to look at, the way word stress can change and words that come from the same root word.

We'll show you how to work out the stress of these words. There'll be a quiz and we'll leave you with a top tip for learning vocabulary.

But first, let's listen to John. He's a photographer, which is a person who takes photographs as a job. He's talking about his latest project.

Here's a question to think about while you listen to what John's project. The book is a collection of photographs of my father. He studied geography as a young man and went all over the world during his career. He visited some very interesting geographic locations, the Andes, the Sahara, beautiful places, the books like a photographic record of his life, a kind of biography and pictures.

And so that's John. We asked you what was his project? And the answer is a biography. Now, a biography is the story of someone's life, usually a book.

But John's a photographer, so he told the story of his father's life and photographs.

Let's hear a clip. He studied geography as a young man. John's dad was interested in geography. The study of the physical features of the earth and geography is a key word in today's show because of its stress.

Yes. Now geography has four syllables g all grare fee and the stress falls on the third syllable from the end.

Geography, not geography, geography or geography, it's geography, words that end in the letters p h y pronounced phee usually have this stress pattern like by geography and photography. Do you like photography, Katherine?

To be honest, not really. Not really. No. Sorry to hear that. No, nevermind.

Anyway, these words like geography, biography and photography are all nouns. We can change them to adjectives by changing the Y at the end to Icee pronounced. And when we do this, the word stress moves to a different place in the word.

Here's John again.

He studied geography as a young man. He visited some very interesting geographic locations.

Did you hear the difference? When we say adjectives that end with Isy, the stress falls on the penultimate syllable. That's the syllable just before the last one. So it's geography, but geographic, geography, geographic. And we have photography. Photographic, yes, and there's other words like dramatic to do with theater and drama, alphabetic to do with the alphabet and artistic to describe things to do with art, then are you artistic? Well, I like to think of myself as quite artistic.

Yes. And Katherine. Yes. What's the most interesting geographic location you've been to?

It's a lovely place in Turkey called Aladin is listening to BBC, learning English, and we're talking about word stress.

We've looked at the stress patterns of words that end in P.H. Y like photography and words ending with icey like photographic films.

And now it's time for a quiz to choose the correct pronunciation for the words in these sentences. Katherine will tell you the answers. Ready? Number one, I like reading books about famous people. I love a good A biography, B biography or C biography. And it's B biography. Well done.

If you got that right.

Number two, the police arrested him when they found a photographic evidence, B, photographic evidence or C, photographic evidence.

And the answer is C, photographic evidence.

And that's the end of the quiz. And that almost brings us to the end of the program.

But before we go, here's today's top tip for learning vocabulary.

If you use an online dictionary, you can usually hear an audio recording of a word's pronunciation. Listen carefully to the word stress and try to copy it to tip. Thank you.

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