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The key answer of exercise 14

The key to exercise solutions in chapter 1.2 - Family ties for the textbook New Total English Upper-Intermediate - Students' Book with authors Araminta Crace and Richard Acklam from Pearson Education

Question

We can show how tentative or sure we are about what we're saying by using different intonation. Listen again to four extracts from the conversation. Which ones convey more tentative statements and which are more confident? How can you tell?

Answer

  • Confident → 2 and 3
  • Tentative → 1 and 4