Cover of the textbook Speakout Elementary - Students' Book

The key answer of exercise 2

The key to exercise solutions in chapter 4.1 - A place to stay for the textbook Speakout Elementary - Students' Book with authors Frances Eales and Steve Oakes from Pearson Education

Question

  1. Read the texts again. Underline four rooms / places in an apartment and four items of furniture.
  2. -
  3. -
  4. Listen again and underline the stressed syllable. What do they all have in common? Listen and repeat.

Answer

a)

Rooms / Places

  • bedroom
  • bathroom
  • roof terrace
  • living room

Furniture

  • beds
  • sofa
  • washbasin
  • (big-screen) television

d)

  • a sofa
  • an armchair
  • a carpet
  • a cupboard
  • a shower
  • a wardrobe
  • a table
  • a bedroom
  • a bathroom
  • a kitchen
  • an office
  • a terrace

They are all two-syllable words and they are all stressed on the first syllable.