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The key answer of exercise 3

The key to exercise solutions in chapter 7.2 - Hands up for the textbook New Total English Pre-Intermediate - Students' Book with authors Araminta Crace and Richard Acklam from Pearson Education

Question

  1. Listen to the adjectives from exercise 2 and underline the stressed syllables.
  2. Now look at the unstressed syllables. Which unstressed syllables are pronounced with a schwa /ə/? Listen again, check and repeat.

Answer

a)

  • ambitious
  • chatty
  • easy-going
  • hard-working
  • lazy
  • open
  • organised
  • reserved
  • sensitive
  • unreliable

b)

  • ambitious → /æm'bɪʃəs/
  • open → /'əʊpən/
  • organised → /'ɔ:gənaɪzd/
  • unreliable → /lʌnrɪ'laɪəbəl/