9 PRONUNCIATION EXTRA

ADVANCED UNIT 9 4 A Look at the table. Start at ‘mother’ and go to ‘door’.

Choose a new pronunciation of ‘o’ each time. You
9.1 can only use each sound once. Go up, down, le or
right.
1 A SILENT LETTERS Look at the groups of words.
Which consonant is silent in all of the words of each mother honey Monday store more
group? Match the groups to the letters.
bother glove shone moon solar
b d g k l n p t w bone cloud spoon joy sorry
1 answer, write, wrist, wrestler       dome sound fool cook actor
2 autumn, government, solemn, column      
zone doubt dog ground door
3 climb, thumb, comb, plumber      
4 cupboard, psychology, pneumonia, receipt      
B 9.5 Listen and check. What is the phonemic
5 handkerchief, sandwich, Wednesday, adjective       symbol for the ‘o’ sound in each word on the route?
6 knock, knuckle, knowledge, knife      
7 listen, castle, Christmas, mortgage       9.3
8 salmon, calm, talk, half      
9 sign, champagne, gnome, campaign       5 CONNECTED SPEECH: linking, elision and intrusion
Match the explanations to the underlined examples
B 9.1 Listen and check. in sentences a)–c).
1 linking: the final consonant of one word links to
C Listen again and say the words with the speakers.
the initial vowel of the next word.            
Can you think of one more word for each group?
2 elision: the final /t/ is dropped in consonant
2 A Look at the words in the box. Which vowel is silent clusters across word boundaries.            
in each word? 3 intrusion: an intrusive sound, /j/, /w/ or /r/,
is used to separate final and initial vowel
every evening different several interesting sounds.            
vegetable literature temperature jewellery
a) I had no idea of the time.
b) You mustn’t say a word.
B 9.2 Listen and say the words with the speaker. c) Sorry, I’m in a hurry.

9.2 6 A Look at the sentences below. Find the connected

speech features in brackets.
3A 9.3 PRONUNCIATION: ‘o’ Listen and read the Raving
short text below. Look at the words with ‘o’ and find It was absolutely incredible.
at least one example of each of the sounds. (elision, linking, intrusive /j/)
My first choice for finding inspiration is to go for a It’s really the best media event.
walk in the woods. Sometimes I listen to music or a (elision (x2))
podcast, but more oen than not, I just listen to the I was one of the lucky ones.
sound of the leaves under my shoes. (linking (x2))
1 /ʌ/ (some)                 I couldn’t believe my luck when I saw it.
2 /ʊ/ (took)                 (elision, intrusive /r/)
3 /ɒ/ (on)                 It’s an all-time great (elision, linking (x2))
4 /ɔɪ/ (coin)                 Ranting
5 /ə/ (actor)                 If there’s one thing I can’t stand, it’s lies.
6 /u:/ (shoot)                 (linking (x2), elision (x2))
7 /aʊ/ (mouth)                 It drives me up the wall. (elision, intrusive /j/)
8 /ɔ:/ (door)                 It was absolutely awful. (elision, linking, intrusive /j/)
9 /əʊ/ (show)                 It was a total waste of money. (elision, linking (x2))
It’s not my cup of tea at all.
B 9.4 Listen and check.
(elision (x2), linking, intrusive /j/, linking)

B 9.6 Listen and say the sentences with the

speakers.

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