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61NNA1- NHÓM 5
THIẾT KẾ BÀI TẬP 7
Exercise 1: Multiple choice
1. The one word in a sentence that is most likely to receive sentence stress is
_______.
a. The subject of the sentence.
b. The last content word in the sentence.
c. The longest word in the sentence.
d. The first word in the sentence.
2. In a stress-timed language, _______.
a. All the syllables receive about the same amount of stress.
b. There’s really no predictable rhythm pattern.
c. The time between stressed syllables stays fairly constant.
d. People feel stressed out all the time when they speak.
3. In a syllable-timed language, _______.
a. All the syllables last for about the same amount of time.
b. There’s really no predictable rhythm pattern.
c. The time between stressed syllables stays fairly constant.
d. People feel stressed out all the time when they speak.
4. In elision, when three or more consonant sounds come together, the consonant
cluster is sometimes simplified by omitting ______.
a. The first consonant
b. The last consonant
c. The middle consonant
d. Any consonant the speaker chooses
5. When native speakers talk, they often blend words together and make some
changes in the sounds. This is ______.
a. A sign of sloppy, lazy speech.
b. Mostly a characteristic of uneducated speakers.
c. A sign that the speaker is thinking carefully about these changes
d. A normal aspect of natural connected speech.
6. A: How often do you play online games?
B: I play LoL with my friends whenever we have time.
Where is the contrastive stress in B answer?
a. Play
b. Lol
c. Time
 d. Whenever
7. 'Up above the world so high' . Identify the foot in the sentence above?
a. Above the
b. World so
c. So high
d. Up above
8. Which of the following phrases is partial assimilation?
a. hard path [hɑ:b pɑ:θ]
b. that person [ðæp pз:sn]
c. main gate [meɪŋ geɪt]
d. that thing [ðæt θɪŋ]
Exercise 2: True or False:
1. Rhythm is a prominence with which one or more words in a sentence are
pronounced.
2. Two adjacent consonants within a word or at word boundaries often influence
each other in such a way that the articulation of one sound becomes similar to
or even identical with the articulation of the other one is called assimilation.
3. Assimilation may be of two types as far as the direction is concerned: prefix
and suffix.
4. The modification in the articulation of a vowel under the influence of an
adjacent consonant, or, vice versa, the modification in the articulation of a
consonant under the influence of an adjacent vowel is called adaptation, or
accommodation.
5. There are four distinct levels of stress in the sentence.
6. Lexical words can have either strong forms or weak forms in speech.
Exercise: Matching column A with column B
A B
1. Rhythm a. is the type of assimilation when the following sound
assimilates the preceding sound and the direction of
assimilation is backward.
2. Grammatical words b. which have both strong forms and weak forms belong to
a category.
3. Progressive c. is detectable in the regular occurrence of stressed
syllables.
4. Elision d. link words together.
5. Linking e. is typical of rapid, casual speech.
6. Partial assimilation f. when the assimilated sound is basically the same sound,
but adjusted to be a bit more similar to another sound.
KEY:
Exercise 1: 1b 2c 3a 4c 5d 6d 7b 8d
Exercise 2: 1F ( Rhythm  sentence stress), 2T, 3F ( prefix and suffix  regressive
and progressive), 4T, 5F ( (four→three), 6F ( Lexical  Grammatical)
Exercise 3: 1c 2b 3a 4e 5d 6f