The key to exercise solutions in chapter 5.2 - Time well spent? for the textbook New Total English Intermediate - Students' Book with authors Rachael Roberts, Antonia Clare and JJ Wilson from Pearson Education
Question
Listen to the words in the box. Decide if the underlined letter 'a' is pronounced /æ/ or /eɪ/, and put the words in the correct column.
/a/ is often pronounced /e/, when the pattern is /a/ + consonant + /eɪ/. What other spelling patterns with 'a' make the sound /eɪ/?