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
Listen to two conversations and complete the exclamations.
Listen again and answer the questions with a partner.
Answer
a)
What a ridiculous idea
How interesting
b)
The adjectives (ridiculous and interesting) have extra stress. The intonation is more exaggerated, with extra stress on the stressed syllable.
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.