Cover of the textbook English File Advanced - Student's Book

The key answer of exercise 2

The key to exercise solutions in chapter 9B - How to cook, how to eat 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. Read these two sentences aloud. Which has more syllables? How many syllables do they each have?
  2. Listen to ten sentences. For each one, write the last word.
  3. Cross out the vowels that are not pronounced in the words you wrote in b.

Answer

a)

Sentence 1 has more syllables, with 11 syllables whereas sentence 2 has 9 syllables.

b)

  1. restaurant
  2. comfortable
  3. medicine
  4. different
  5. temperature
  6. dictionary
  7. miserable
  8. separate
  9. family
  10. ordinary

c)

  1. restaurant
  2. comfortable
  3. medicine
  4. different
  5. temperature
  6. dictionary
  7. miserable
  8. separate
  9. family
  10. ordinary