Cover of the textbook Gateway B1 - Workbook

The key answer of exercise 3

The key to exercise solutions in chapter 4 - Developing speaking for the textbook Gateway B1 - Workbook with authors David Spencer and Lynda Edwards from Macmillan Education

Question

Listen and underline which word is stressed in the compound nouns. Five have the same stress pattern. One is different. Which one?

Answer

‘First aid’ is different (the stress is equal on both words; the stress on the other words is on the first syllable.)