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

The key answer of exercise 6

The key to exercise solutions in chapter 1B - One world for the textbook English File Elementary - Student's Book with authors Christina Latham-Koenig, Clive Oxenden and Jerry Lambert from Oxford University Press

Question

  1. Listen and repeat the pairs of numbers. How is the stress different?
  2. Listen to the conversations. Which number do you hear? Circle a or b above.

Answer

a)

The numbers in a, e.g. 13, 14, etc., are stressed on the second syllable, and the numbers in b, e.g. 30, 40, etc., are stressed on the first syllable.

b)

  1. a
  2. b
  3. a
  4. b
  5. a
  6. b
  7. b