1 PRONUNCIATION EXTRA

PRE-INTERMEDIATE UNIT 1 1.2

1.1 3A 1.4 SENTENCE STRESS and RHYTHM:
relationships Listen to the story. Did Joe and Ann know
1A 1.1 SENTENCE STRESS: questions each other for a long time before they got engaged?
Complete the questions. They all begin with a wh- Joe didn’t have a girlfriend,
question word. Then listen and check your ideas. He met Ann on a plane,
1 A:     They talked a lot and got on well.
studying English? From Mexico to Spain.
B: Because I want to travel.
They fell in love in Malaga
2 A: ’s  favourite
 of music? And Joe proposed to Ann.
B: Rock music. She said ‘yes’, they got engaged.
3 A:        What a happy man!
do homework? Why did she accept so soon?
B: In the library. She doesn’t really know.
4 A:    time But they got married there and then
  spend on Twenty years ago.
     internet?
B: About two hours a day. B Underline the main stressed words in each line. What
5 A:     do you notice about the last word in each line?
last film saw?
C Listen again and say the story with the speaker. Copy
B: The new James Bond film.
the stress and rhythm.
B Read the Pronunciation tip. Then listen again
and say the questions in Exercise 1A with the 1.3
speakers. Copy the sentence stress.
4A 1.5 LINKING: do you, did you, would you
PRONUNCIATION TIP Read the Pronunciation tip. Then listen and repeat the
questions.
Key words are stressed. They are longer, louder
and higher. The other words are usually weaker
PRONUNCIATION TIP
and are said faster.
What do you do? How did you get here today? In fast speech, we oen link Do you /dʒʊ/, Did you
/dɪdʒʊ/ and Would you /wʊdʒʊ/ together.

2A 1.2 SOUNDS and SPELLING: /ɪ/ /iː/ /ʊ/ 1 What did you do last night?
/uː/ /æ/ /ɑː/ Look at some different spellings 2 Did you watch the match?
of the sounds. Then listen and repeat the 3 Would you like a coffee?
sounds and words. Which sounds are short and 4 What would you like to drink?
which sounds are long?
5 Do you have the time?
/ɪ/ did, live, business 6 Where do you live?
/iː/ see, leave, police
/ʊ/ good, sugar, woman B 1.6 Listen to the questions and circle the phrases
/uː/ food, who, shoe you hear.
/æ/ happy, transport, pasta 1 Do you Did you Would you
/ɑː/ answer, car, laugh 2 do you did you would you
3 do you did you would you
B 1.3 Read the phonemes and try to say the
4 Do you Did you Would you
words. Listen and check. Then write the spelling.
5 Do you Did you Would you
1    /kiː/ 6 do you did you would you
2    /mɪnɪt/
3    /bʊk/
4    /skuːl/
5  /blæk/
6  /hɑːf/

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