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Search programs by skill on our website, bbclearningenglish.com. Hello and welcome to 6 Minute Vocabulary. I'm Catherine. And I'm Finn. Catherine, look at this photo. Do you like it? I took it this morning. Wow, Finn. That's not bad. Okay. I didn't know you were into photography. I love taking photographs. Really? Well, funnily enough, the words photography and photograph are good examples of today's topic which is word stress. We're going to look at the way word stress can change in 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. What's 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 book's like a photographic record of his life, a kind of biography in pictures. 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 in 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-O-G-F-E. And the stress falls on the third syllable from the end. G-O-G-F-E. Not geography. Geography or geography, it's geography. Words that end in the letters P-H-Y, pronounced phi, usually have this stress pattern like biography and photography. Do you like photography, Catherine? To be honest, not really. Not really, I'm sorry to hear that. No, never mind. 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 I-C, pronounced Ick. And when we do this, the word stress moves to a different place in the word. Here's John again. He visited some very interesting geographic locations. Did you hear the difference? When we say adjectives that end with I-C, 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, photo-graphic. Yes, and there's other words like dramatic to do with theatre and drama. Alphabetic, to do with the alphabet and artistic, to describe things to do with art. Finn, are you artistic? Well, I like to think of myself as quite artistic, yes. And Catherine, what's the most interesting geographic location you've been to? It's a lovely place in Turkey called El Udennis. We'll listen 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-I, like photography. And words ending with I-C, like photographic. And now it's time for a quiz. Choose the correct pronunciation for the words in these sentences. Catherine 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 programme. 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's dress and try to copy it. Top tip, Finn. Thank you. There's more about this at bbclearningenglish.com. Join us again for more six-minute vocabulary. Bye. Sometimes we all need an extra helping hand. Especially with a tricky business problem you've been putting off. Claude is the AI for just that. It's the collaborator that understands your entire workflow. And thinks with you, not for you. And Claude isn't just for quick questions. Hand it a whole task like turning a folder of scattered notes into a report. And it does the work and hands back something finished that you can open and edit. Claude can now draft a doc or deck right in front of you. And Claude design now lives right inside Claude. Describe the website or prototype your picturing. 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