Practice the following conversation with a partner. The words in bold can be stress are suggestions - stress does change in different situations. Remember that when you stress a word, pause briefly before or after this allows th erstand better). Also, de-stress the small words. a Telling good news. The following is a phone conversation between a college student ar mother. Take turns reading the dialogue with a partner. 00 Bill: Hi, mom. I have some good news. Inga: Great. I like phone calls with good news. What is it? Bill: I made the Dean's list. I really pulled my grades up. Inga: Wow. That's wonderful! Congratulations! Bill: It was a lot of hard work, but it also showed me how much I wasn't doing before that I could have done. Inga: So it wasn't quite as hard as you expected? Bill: Not really. Once I got into a few study clubs, I started to like it. I got more competitive. Inga: Like when you were in high school and did the track team? Bill: Yeah. I stopped thinking of it as work and started trying to beat everyone else. That made it fun. Inga: Whatever works!​