Additional exercises

Exercise 1

How many syllables do these words have? One is done for you.

furniture……3 bought…… blackboard…… examination…… remember…… collect…… anybody…… please…… grandmother…… impossible…… electricity…… rabbit…… directions…… goodbye……

Listen and check your answers.

Exercise 2

Show the stressed and unstressed syllables in the same way in the words as in the example.

furniture l · ·

Listen again to the words given in ex.1. Repeat the words and check your answers.

Exercise 3

Here are the English names of some capital cities. How many syllables are there in each name? Show which syllables are stressed.

Budapest Moscow

Bangkok Jakarta

Madrid Lima

Exercise 4

Four of the words in each of the lines below have the stressed pattern shown and one has a different pattern. This is the odd one out. Before listening to the words, try to find the odd one out in each list.

1. · l above, chicken, postpone, guitar, correct

2. l · under, dirty, handsome, Japan, reason

3. · l · exciting, tomorrow, November, injection, telephone

4. l · · policeman, cinema, yesterday, politics, overcoat

5. · · l · unemployment, competition, supermarket, information, immigration

Repeat the words and check your answers.

Exercise 5

How many syllables do these words have? One is done for you. When you have finished, repeat the words and check your answers.

economics……4 Zimbabwe…… diplomat…… July…… Chinese…… biology…… Arabic…… Peru…… August…… photographer…… Norwegian…… Germany…… accountant…… chemistry…… September……

Exercise 6

Work in pairs. Use the words in ex.5 to complete these conversations. Choose the words to match the stress shown. Then say the conversation together.

1. A: What does she do?

B: She’s a(n) · l ·

2. A: When are you going to Italy?

B: In l ·

3. A: I liked history at school.

B: My favourite subject was · l · ·

4. A: Do you speak Swedish?

B: Yes, but I don’t speak · l · very well.

5. A: Where are you flying to?

B: First to France and then to · l ·

Exercise 7

Listen to these sentences. Put a circle round the numbers you hear.

1. 11.14 11.40 4. 17 70

2. 15 50 5. £2.18 £2.80

3. 16 60 6. £19 £90

Exercise 8

If you are not sure if someone has said 30 or 13, 40 or 14, and so on, you should ask them to repeat. These conversations show you how. Listen.

l ·

A: He’ll be thirty tomorrow.

l · · l

B: I’m sorry. Did you say thirty or thirteen?

l ·

A: Thirty. · l

A: I live at number fourteen.

l · · l

B: I’m sorry. Did you say forty or fourteen?

· l

A: Fourteen.

Listen again and repeat the conversations a line at a time.

Exercise 9

Work in pairs to make similar conversations starting with these sentences.

1. That will be $30, please. 3. To get to the theatre, catch bus 80.

2. Turn to page 17. 4. I’ll see you at 3.15.

Exercise 10

If you are not sure of the stress pattern in a word, you could look in a dictionary. Write these words in the table. The first is done for you.

motorbike across museum

ambulance photograph suggestion

machine professor July

perhaps garden also

l ·	· l	l · ·	· l ·
		motorbike

Exercise 11

Many numbers have moving stress. Listen to this conversation.

A: Where does Jim live?

l l

B: Lime Road.

A: What number does Jim live at?

l · l

B: Twenty-two.

A: What’s Jim address?

l · · l l

B: Twenty-two Lime Road.

Listen again and repeat the conversation a line at a time.

Exercise 12

Work in pairs to make similar questions and answers.

Emma – 26, High Street

Tom – 32, Nixon Road

Ann – 63, Broad Road

Sue – 58, Bond Road

Philip – 45, New Street

Bob – 89, Bristol Street

Ray – 77, Edgar Road

Louise – 94, Bull Road

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