Cover of the textbook Speakout Upper-Intermediate - Students' Book

The key answer of exercise 4

The key to exercise solutions in chapter 8.3 - Have you got a minute? for the textbook Speakout Upper-Intermediate - Students' Book with authors Frances Eales and Steve Oakes from Pearson Education

Question

  1. Complete phrases 1-5. Then look at the audio script on page 173 and check.
  2. Listen and underline the stresses in the phrases. Does the voice rise or fall at the end of each phrases? Why?

Answer

a)

  1. meaning (= intending, thinking about)
  2. just (It's just that ... 'softens' the message)
  3. take
  4. what
  5. sound

b)

  1. There's something I've been meaning to talk to you about.
  2. I hope you don't take this the wrong way, but ...
  3. I don't want you to get the wrong idea, but ...

The first phrase goes down as it is a completed statement. The other two phrases go up because they are unfinished.

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