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The key answer of exercise 3

The key to exercise solutions in chapter 3.2 - City life for the textbook New Total English Intermediate - Students' Book with authors Rachael Roberts, Antonia Clare and JJ Wilson from Pearson Education

Question

  1. What examples can you find in the poem of words which rhyme?
  2. Some words such as bang, crash, pop, click sound like the sound they describe. What examples of words like this can you find in the poem?
  3. What examples can you find of words close together which begin with the same sound?

Answer

a)

  • sputters - gutters
  • hurrying - scurrying
  • race - face - pace - place
  • nights - lights - heights
  • creep - sleep

b)

  • swish
  • swash
  • swoosh
  • sputter

c)

  • swish - swash
  • pulse - people
  • sweepers - swooshing
  • pacing - places
  • city - senses - sleep

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