A fun game to practise word stress with any age is to stand students in a circle and ask each to choose a different word with more than one syllable on a given vocabulary topic, e.g. fruit.

Ask each student to say their word, to ensure all are different, and then ask them to clap-slap the word, slapping thighs for the unstressed syllables and clapping for the stressed one: ba-NA-na, STRAW-be-rry, av-o-CA-do.

Then one person has to clap-slap their word and pass to a classmate by clap-slapping theirs.  It’s as much a memory game as a practice of word stress, but either way, a fun five-minute activity to end the lesson.