Finding the True Downbeat ....Sound .mp3?
The true Downbeat is on the Main Word's strong part. Study this picture:
Now your most difficult pronunciation will be putting the little "up beat" words in between the strong down beats. You must speak the little "up beat" words very quickly. When you can do it, you will be a good speaker. Let's practice with these. Try this yourself first:
When the weather is bad, airplanes have difficulty flying into our airport.
OK, say it after me:
When the WEATHer is BAD, AIRplanes have DIFficulty FLYing into our AIRport.
You see? "weather bad airplanes difficulty flying airport" gives you the main ideas. That makes it easier to understand when you are listening. But the TIMING of the "up beats" will make you the best speaker. So let's try that sentence one more time, and try to have exactly the same timing between beats, even if you have different numbers of words.
In the sentence we are working with the up beat words "when the" and "--er
is" have exactly the SAME TIME BETWEEN DOWNBEATS as "--ficulty" and "-- ing into our" 
Frame Words on the Up Beats
We've been talking a lot about Main Words and Downbeats. The rest of the words are grammar which "frames" the meaning in the sentence.
Frame Words are Prepositions like "into" and Articles like "the" and Conjunctions like "When." Frame Words are important to "frame" the picture. So we will call those Upbeat words "Frame Words." They are all the little words between the Downbeats in the Main Words.
And that is why you learn grammar, so that you know what is in the Frame for the Main Words.
Our next SayIt lesson will be ALL PRACTICE on saying sentences with Main Words on the Downbeat and Frame Words on the Upbeat.
And we will give you one word for all of this: RHYTHM. It is pronounced RIH-thum.
See you then.
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