Ear training guide: tonality

Task 1: Listen to the utterances below and chunk appropriately. Punctuation has been
removed on purpose. (Adapted from Hancock, M. (2007). English Pronunciation in
Use-Intermediate)

1. It was cold outside there was snow on the ground

2. Was that the question he asked
3. They are leaving soon it’ll be quieter
4. There was nothing inside it was empty
5. We walked carefully downstairs it was dark
6. I watched him silently he opened the drawer
7. The rain didn’t stop the next day it just carried on
8. The weather was hot at the weekend it was 40 degrees
9. I saw her clearly she was hungry
10. It was cold last night the roads were icy

Task 2: Decide I which order the following utterances were produced. Write 1 (first)
or 2 (second) according to what you hear. Punctuation has been removed on purpose.
(Adapted from Hancock, M. (2007). English Pronunciation in Use-Intermediate)

Quoting Not quoting

Do you know what he said to me
What she said was good
He said Linda was married
That’s the thing he said
He wrote a letter to the president
I don’t know what I thought
She says what she thinks is right
Who wrote Julius Caesar
Who said Martin