8 PRONUNCIATION EXTRA

STARTER UNIT 8 C 8.5 Listen and check. Then listen and repeat.

8.1 8.3
1A 8.1 SOUNDS and SPELLING: /ʊ/ /ɔː/ Look at
4A 8.6 LINKING: prepositions of place Listen to
some different spellings of the sounds. Then listen the prepositions and look at the linking. Then listen
and repeat the sounds and words. again and repeat.
/ʊ/ put, full, sugar, football, took, book on the right of the on the le of the
/ɔː/ forty, door, your, thought, ball /rɑɪtəv/ /leftəv/
in front of the next to the
B Circle six /ʊ/ sounds and underline seven /ɔː/
sounds in the sentences. /frʌntəv/ /nekstə/
1 My little daughter looked at the water.
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2 My mother was a good cook.
3 I thought I saw a woman. When a word ends in ‘t’ and the next word starts
with ‘t’, only say one ‘t’, e.g. next to /nekstə/.
4 They pushed and pulled but the door didn’t open.
5 It’s quarter to four.
B Look at speaker B’s part. Mark links between words
C 8.2 Listen and check. Then listen and repeat. ending with a consonant sound and words starting
with a vowel sound. Cross out any ‘t’s you can
8.2 leave out.
A: Where’s my coat?
2A 8.3 SENTENCE STRESS and RHYTHM: past
B: It’s on the right of the door.
simple wh- questions Listen to the poem and
underline two stressed words in each question. A: Where’s my bag?
Where did you go? B: It’s on the le of the chair.
What did you do? A: Where are my shoes?
How was the weather? B: They’re in front of the window.
Did Ken go, too?
A: Where are my gloves?
When did you go? B: They’re next to the table.
Where did you stay?
How did you travel? C 8.7 Listen and say B’s part with the speaker.
Was the flight OK?
5A 8.8 INTONATION: sounding polite Read
How was the food? the Pronunciation tip. Then listen and circle the
How was the drink? intonation. Is it polite (P) or impolite (I)?
How were the people?
What did you think? PRONUNCIATION TIP

B Listen again and say the poem with the speaker.

Copy the weak forms. Say Excuse me … when you want to speak to a
stranger. Use polite intonation and start high.
3A 8.4 SOUNDS: /j/ Look at some different
spellings of the sound. Then listen and repeat the 1 Excuse me, where’s the fruit? P I
sound and words. 2 Excuse me, where are the snacks? P I
/j/ you, music, university, new, Tuesday, WWW 3 Excuse me, how much are the cakes? P I
4 Excuse me, do you have the time? P I
B Look at the table. Start at ‘yesterday’ and go to 5 Excuse me, is there a post office near here? P I
‘www’. Choose only words with the sound /j/. 6 Excuse me, do you speak English? P I
Go up, down, le or right.
B 8.9 Listen and repeat the questions. Copy the
yesterday country year www polite intonation.
yellow July euro very
the UK young usually try
holiday party sixty your

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