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Answer — Exercise 3

3.2 - City life·New Total English Intermediate - Students' Book

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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