Cover of the textbook New Total English Elementary - Students' Book

The key answer of exercise 3

The key to exercise solutions in chapter 8.3 - Changing weather for the textbook New Total English Elementary - Students' Book with authors Mark Foley and Diane Hall from Pearson Education

Question

  1. Listen to these words. Is the vowel sound the same in all four?
  2. Listen to these word pairs. Are the vowel sounds the same or different?
  3. Listen. Is the sound /ɒ/ (not) or /əʊ/ (cold)?

Answer

a)

  • cold and snowing → /əʊ/
  • hot and foggy → /ɒ/

b)

  1. same
  2. different
  3. different
  4. same

c)

  • /ɒ/ → clock, cost, not, on, bottle
  • /əʊ/ → old, note, hotel, wrote, own