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The key answer of exercise 2

The key to exercise solutions in chapter 7A - As a matter of fact… for the textbook English File Advanced - Student's Book with authors Christina Latham-Koenig, Clive Oxenden, Jerry Lambert and Kate Chomacki from Oxford University Press

Question

  1. Listen to two conversations and complete the exclamations.
  2. Listen again and answer the questions with a partner.

Answer

a)

  1. What a ridiculous idea
  2. How interesting

b)

  1. The adjectives (ridiculous and interesting) have extra stress. The intonation is more exaggerated, with extra stress on the stressed syllable.
  2. Because interesting begins with a vowel, and when a word ending in w is followed by a word beginning in a vowel, the /w/ sound is added.