Game: stress maze

When I lived in Turkey I taught a group of 9-10 year old girls.  At the time, Dance-Dance-Revolution was all the rage.  I had the idea of putting words from a song ("Hello, I love you" by the Doors) on cards on the floor and having them take turns listening to the song and trying to step on the words as they heard them.

I wondered if I could do the same with stress patterns.  How's this one?

 

Consider the stress pattern in the following sentence:

GAMING IS A SYSTEM

If you follow the stress pattern noted in bold, you should be able to make your way through the maze like this:

STRESSED	STRESSED	STRESSED	STRESSED	UNSTRESSED	STRESSED
UNSTRESSED	UNSTRESSED	UNSTRESSED	UNSTRESSED	UNSTRESSED	STRESSED
STRESSED	STRESSED	UNSTRESSED	UNSTRESSED	UNSTRESSED	STRESSED
UNSTRESSED	UNSTRESSED	STRESSED	STRESSED	STRESSED	UNSTRESSED
STRESSED	STRESSED	UNSTRESSED	STRESSED	UNSTRESSED	STRESSED
STRESSED	STRESSED	STRESSED	UNSTRESSED	STRESSED	UNSTRESSED

 

Try the following sentence:

SYSTEMS HAVE INTERCONNECTING PARTS.

First identify the stress pattern, then try and find your way through the maze. 

Remember you can move in any direction as long as the next square touched the previous one.  You cannot use the same square twice.

STRESSED	STRESSED	STRESSED	STRESSED	UNSTRESSED	STRESSED
UNSTRESSED	UNSTRESSED	UNSTRESSED	UNSTRESSED	UNSTRESSED	STRESSED
STRESSED	STRESSED	UNSTRESSED	UNSTRESSED	UNSTRESSED	STRESSED
UNSTRESSED	UNSTRESSED	STRESSED	STRESSED	STRESSED	UNSTRESSED
STRESSED	STRESSED	UNSTRESSED	STRESSED	UNSTRESSED	STRESSED
STRESSED	STRESSED	STRESSED	UNSTRESSED	STRESSED	UNSTRESSED

 

Now, make the squares bigger and place them on the floor.  You now have to walk through the maze following the same rules as above.  Make your own sentences; you may have to rearrange the squares in order to have a solution.  Then challenge your classmates and have fun!