Cover of the textbook New Total English Upper-Intermediate - Students' Book

The key answer of exercise 7

The key to exercise solutions in chapter 3.2 - Land of invention for the textbook New Total English Upper-Intermediate - Students' Book with authors Araminta Crace and Richard Acklam from Pearson Education

Question

In spoken English, some sounds almost disappear so we can’t hear them. Listen to sentences 1-3 below and delete the sounds which have almost disappeared.

Answer

The words a, the, I, for, of, that, and are understressed and almost disappear.