SOUND /e/

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and fill the gaps (1-7) with the correct questions (a-g) below.

a) Can I get you a drink, Adele?

b) Is that better?
c) Was it expensive?
d) Are you listening to the Red Hot Chili Peppers?
e) How did you spend your holiday, Adele?
f) Are you a friend of Emma's?
g) Have you met my friend Adele yet, Kevin?

Friends

Adele: Hi, Emma! Hi, Ben! Hello, Emily! Hello! Eddie! Hi, everybody!
Everybody except Kevin: Hi, Adele!
Emily: Nice to see you again, Adele. Kevin, this is Adele. Adele, this is Kevin.
Adele: Hi, Kevin,1_______________________? It's terribly loud.
Kevin: Yes ... (turns the music down) 2_______________________?(Adele nods
her head) 3_____________________?
Adele: Yes.
Kevin: Emma said she had a friend called Adele.
Eddie: Help yourself to Mexican food, Adele. It's on the kitchen bench.
Emily: And there's French bread on the shelf.
Ben: 4_________________________?
Adele: Yes, thanks, Ben. Some lemonade with a bit of ice in it.
Emma: 5_______________________?
Kevin: Yes. I've just met her. She's very friendly.
Ben: 6_________________________?
Adele: I went to South America with my best friend Kerrie.
Everybody: Well!
Emma: We're all jealous.
Eddie: 7_______________________?
Adele: Not very. But l spent everything. I haven't any money left.

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SOUND /a:/

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dialogueand fill the gaps (1-5) with the correct adjectives from the box.

marvellous attractive fantastic fabulous smart

At a party

Margaret and Alana are at the bar. People are laughing in the garden.)
Alana: What a 1________party this is! I'm having so much fun, Margaret.
Margaret: Where's your glass, Alana?
Alana: Here you are. Thanks. That's enough.
Martin: Alana! Margaret! Come into the garden. Tara Darling and Markus Marsh
are dancing on the grass.
Margaret: In the dark?
Martin: They're dancing under the stars.
Alana: 2________! And Bart Jackson is playing his guitar.
Margaret: Just look at Tara! She can't dance but she looks very 3________.
Martin: Look at Markus. What a 4________dancer!
Alana: What an 5________couple they are! Let's take a photograph of them.

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SOUND /ɒ/
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and fill the gaps (1-6) with the correct adjectives from the box.
soft hot long strong popular horrible
Advertisement for 'On wash'
Voice A: What's wrong with you, Mrs. Bloggs?
Mrs Bloggs: What’s wrong with me? I want a holiday from this 1_______ job of
washing socks!
Voice B: Buy a bottle of 'On wash', Mrs. Bloggs!
Voice C: 'On wash' is so 2________and 3________.
Voice D: You don't want lots of 4________water with 'On wash'.
Voice A: It's not a 5________job with 'On wash'.
Voice B: Use 'On wash' often.
Voice C: You won't be sorry when you've got 'On wash'.
Voice D: Everybody wants 'On wash'.
Everybody: 'On wash' is so 6________!
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SOUND /ɔ:/

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Sports report from Radio Station 4

Announcer: This morning the Roarers football team arrived back from York. Laura
Short is our sports reporter, and she was at the airport.
Laura Short: Good morning, listeners. This is Laura Short. All the footballers are
walking towards me. Here's George Ball, the goalkeeper. Good morning, George.
George Bal: Good morning. Are you a reporter?
Laura Short: Yes. George. I'm Laura Short from Radio Station 4. Tell us about the
football match with York.
George Ball: Well, it was awful. We lost. And the score was forty-four, four. But it
wasn't my fault, Laura.
Laura Short: Whose fault was it, George?
George Ball: The forwards.
Laura Short: The forwards?
George Ball: Yes. The forwards. They were always falling over or losing the ball!

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SOUND /ɜ:/
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The worst nurse

Sir Herbert: Nurse!
Colonel Burton: Nurse! I’m thirsty!
Sir Herbert: Nurse! My head hurts!
Colonel Burton: Nurse Sherman always wears such dirty shirts.
Sir Herbert: He never arrives at work early.
Colonel Burton: He and er ... Nurse Turner weren't at work on Thursday, were
they?
Sir Herbert: No, they weren't.
Colonel Burton: Nurse Sherman is the worst nurse in the ward. Isn’t he, Sir
Herbert?
Sir Herbert: No, he isn't, Colonel Burton. He's the worst nurse in the world!

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SOUND /ʊ/

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A lost book
MR COOK: Could you tell me where you've put my book, Bronwen?
MRS COOK: Isn’t it on the bookshelf?
MR COOK: No, The bookshelf is full of your cookery books.
MRS COOK: Then you should look in the bedroom, shouldn't you?
MR COOK: I’ve looked. You took that book and put it somewhere, didn't you?
MRS COOK: The living room?
MR COOK: No. I’ve looked. I’m going to put all my books in a box and lock it!
MRS COOK: Look, John! It's on the floor next to your foot
MR COOK: Ah! Good!
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SOUND /u:/

The two rudest students in the school

MISS LUKE: (l) Good afternoon girls.
GIRLS: (2) Good afternoon, Miss Luke.
MISS LUKE: (4) This afternoon we're going to learn how to cook soup. (5) Turn
on your computers and look at unit twenty-two.
LUCY: (2) Excuse me, Miss Luke.
MISS LUKE: (l) Yes, Lucy?
LUCY; (2) There's some chewing gum on your shoe.
MISS LUKE: (5) Who threw their chewing gum on the floor? Was it you, Lucy?
LUCY: (2) No, Miss Luke. It was Susan.
MISS LUKE: (l) Who?
LUCY: (2) Susan Duke.
SUSAN: (3) It wasn't me, stupid. It was Julie.
JULIE: (1) It was you!
SUSAN: (8) It wasn't me! My mouth's full of chewing gum. Look, Miss Luke!
JULIE: (4) Stop pulling my hair, Susan. It was you!
SUSAN: (l) YOU!
JULIE: (1) YOU!
MISS LUKE: (11) Excuse me! lf you two continue with this rudeness, you can
stay after school instead of going to the pool.