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
Complete phrases 1-5. Then look at the audio script on page 173 and check.
Listen and underline the stresses in the phrases. Does the voice rise or fall at the end of each phrases? Why?
Answer
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a)
meaning (= intending, thinking about)
just (It's just that ... 'softens' the message)
take
what
sound
b)
There's something I've been meaning to talk to you about.
I hope you don't take this the wrongway, but ...
I don't want you to get the wrongidea, but ...
The first phrase goes down as it is a completed statement. The other two phrases go up because they are unfinished.