Answer — Exercise 4
8.3 - Have you got a minute?·Speakout Upper-Intermediate - Students' Book
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
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 wrong way, but ...
- 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.