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PRONUNCIATION EXTRA
INTERMEDIATE UNIT 2

Circle the five auxiliary verbs used to form the past

perfect or past continuous. Which auxiliary verb is
not pronounced as a weak form? Why not?

2.3 Listen and check. Then listen again and

say the text with the speaker.

2.1

2.1 WEAK FORMS: present perfect vs

past simple Listen and number the sentences in
each pair in the order you hear them. Then listen
again and repeat.
1 a) I met him.

b) Ive met him.

2 a) She bought it.

b) Shes bought it.

3 a) You worked hard.

b) Youve worked hard.

4 a) We travelled far.

b) Weve travelled far.

5 a) They spent their money.

b) Theyve spent their money.

4 A SOUNDS: the schwa // Read the Pronunciation

tip. Then look at the table. Start at attack and go

to attempt. Choose only words with the schwa. Go
up, down, le or right.
PRONUNCIATION TIP

Unstressed vowels are oen represented by a schwa

// sound. This is the first vowel sound in about,
away and around. Its the final vowel sound in pasta,
system and woman.

2 A PRONUNCIATION and SPELLING: irregular

forms (consonants) Find one word from each

circle that
1 has a silent p
2 has a silent b
3 has a silent g
4 has a ch that sounds like /k/

5 has a gh that sounds like /f/

6 looks like a four-syllable word, but is a
three-syllable word
A
psychology
comfortable foreign
enough climb
technology

B
bomb laugh
vegetable
stomach receipt
design

strike

raid

record

arrested

politician

hobby

fraud

security

robber

disaster

hostage

suspect

gang

violent

destroy

crowd

campaign

alarm

conspiracy

crash

fugitive

escape

attempt

2.4

Listen and check. Then listen and repeat.

2.3

5A

2.5 INTONATION: discourse markers for

telling a story Listen to a story. What was the
problem and how was it solved?

Complete sentences 15 from the story. Then listen

again and check.
1
a friend and I were travelling across the States.
2 We were driving through the New Mexico desert
when all
we heard a bang.
3 The next
, the car was skidding off the road.
, it began to get dark
4
and we really werent sure what to do.
,
5 But
we didnt need to.

2.6 Underline the stresses on the phrases you

completed in Exercise 5B. Listen again and copy
the intonation. Then try to retell the story using
sentences 15 to help you.

2.2 Listen and check. Then listen again and

repeat the words.

2.2

3 A WEAK FORMS: had, was, were Read the story. What

does it tell us about Einsteins memory?

Forgetful Genius
Albert Einstein had done some work for the
Rockefeller Foundation, so they sent him a cheque.
But months later he still hadnt cashed it because he
was using it as a bookmark. He then lost the book.
The Rockefeller Foundation was trying to keep its
records in order, so they sent Einstein a replacement
cheque. But Einstein had forgotten all about the first
cheque, and wrote back, Whats this for?

attack

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