Pronunciation Week 6 - Session A

-ed endings – Handout

Intro – Free time activities: Work in pairs.
Tell your partner what you do in your spare time.
Think about: art and music / collections / games and puzzles / outdoor
activities / sports

Vocabulary:
Find the adjectives for the definitions in the following texts.
Work with a partner. Find -ed or -ing adjectives in the texts to describe the
following:

BASE Jumping Bodybuilding

1. something fantastic 6. feeling very interested
2. feeling very afraid 7. something horrible and unpleasant

Karaoke
3. feeling stupid and ashamed
4. feeling concerned and afraid
5. feeling happy and enthusiastic
Sudoku
8. something pleasing that makes you
feel good
9. something uninteresting
10. feeling a little angry

www.britishcouncil.org Taken and adapted from: Life Pre-Intermediate, page 76.

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Grammar
Work in pairs.

Pronunciation
Work individually. Answer the exercise.

www.britishcouncil.org Taken and adapted from: Life Pre-Intermediate, page 76.

Pronunciation
Look at the infinitive parts of the words above.
Which types of sounds do they end in?
Match to the categories below.

• T, D
• P, K, F, GH, SH, CH, SS, C, X, S, /θ/, /ʃ/, /tʃ/
• L, N, R, G, V, Z, B, M, /ð/, /dʒ/, /ʒ/

Pronunciation
Now, put the following –ed ending words into their correct categories
(below).
watched waited damaged fixed

washed painted laughed

used loved called looked

sounded accepted cleaned

lifted blended kissed shopped

**Remember, it's the SOUND that the infinitive ends in, not the letter the
infinitive ends in, that determines the -ED ending sound!

/ɪd/

/t/

/d/

www.britishcouncil.org Taken and adapted from: Life Pre-Intermediate, page 76.