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1. Listen and repeat.

1) Read aloud the words on page 47 by yourself. Decide

which syllable should be stressed.2) Work in pairs and take turns to read aloud those words

to your partner. Compare your pronunciation with your

partner’s and find out the difference.

3) Listen to the audio file and compare your

pronunciation with the standard one.

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2. Read the following conversation by yourself. Please don’t look at your book and decide the places where you should pause.

Mark A man in a wheelchair was crossing the road in front of a lorry at some traffic lights. Somehow, the back of the wheelchair got stuck on the front of the lorry. When the lorry started moving, it took the wheelchair and the man with it!Kate You’re joking!Mark The driver drove for several miles at 80 kilometres an hour before he stopped at a garage. The man was unhurt because his seatbelt had stopped him falling out.Janet What a terrible story! Thank goodness the man was all right!Mark The police asked the driver if he’d realized he had a passenger. The driver said he had no idea at all.

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Now look at the textbook. Listen to the audio file

and check your division of sense group.

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3. Listen and underline the words which the speakers stress.

1) work in pairs. Read the conversation by yourself and decide which words should be stressed.

2) Compare your stresses with your partners’. Discuss which one is appropriate and try to reach an agreement. 3) Listen to the audio file and check your version against the original one.

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Answer Rick I can’t stand reality TV. I mean, OK, if it’s a property programme or a gardening programme, fine, but most of them are just –they’re set up to humiliate people.

Tricia Not always.Rick I disagree. People are on show. It’s like watching animals in a zoo. I mean, would you appear on a reality show?Tricia Maybe. I don’t know. Probably not.Rick There you are you see? You don’t want to be humiliated.Karen Some people do very well on reality shows. They win a lot of money.Rick OK, that’s true, but – standards on reality shows can be pretty low, you can’t deny it.

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1) Listen to the news and mark the stresses and pauses according to the anchorwoman.

4. Shadow reading

2) Listen to the news again and read after it. Try to speak at the exactly the same speed and rhythm as the anchorwoman.

3) Try one more time with the sound turned down several times in the middle of the recording to see if you are still in time when the sound is turned back up.

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Shadow readingThe largest international conference on climate change has opened in Copenhagen, Denmark. Representatives from more than 190 nations are seeking a new treaty, designed to halt the warming of the earth. One United Nations official has asked for $30 billion to help poor countries deal with climate change. Negotiators have not yet been able to agree on how much rich countries should provide to help poor countries. South Africa has offered to reduce the greenhouse gases it released into the air by 34% by the year 2020. The environmental group “Green Peace” says that makes South Africa a star at the conference.

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5. Sentence stress practice

Consider the following rejoinder: I did not say you stole my red hat.

1) Work in pairs and read aloud the sentences with different word stresses.

2) Discuss what possible meanings those stresses may convey. For example, if some stress is placed on the first word,

I did not say you stole my red hat. Then the meaning contains the idea that someone else said it, not me.3) Finish the exercises on the next page with your partner.

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Which word in “I did not say you stole my red hat” should be accented in order to express the following meaning

1) I said that you stole my blue hat. 2) I wasn't accusing you. I know it was someone else. 3) But I implied it that you did. Did you? 4) I said you did something else with it, or maybe

borrowed it.5) I said that you stole my red bat. You misunderstood my pronunciation.6) Strong anger and denial of the fact.7) I meant that you stole someone else's red hat.

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