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The key answer of exercise 3

The key to exercise solutions in chapter 3.1 for the textbook Speakout Upper-Intermediate - Workbook with authors Frances Eales, Steve Oakes and Louis Harrison from Pearson Education

Question

  1. Complete the news story with the correct form of the verbs in the box. There may be more than one possibility.
  2. Listen to the news story above. For each verb 1-14 underline the main stressed syllable and write any weak forms: (/ə/ or /ɪ/).

Answer

a)

  1. had been feeling / had felt
  2. seemed / had seemed
  3. was explaining
  4. realised
  5. had climbed
  6. was sitting
  7. had also failed / also failed
  8. was beginning / had begun
  9. overheard
  10. rushed
  11. changed
  12. had been using / had used
  13. told
  14. brought

b)

  1. had been feeling → /ə/ /ɪ/
  2. seemed
  3. was explaining → /ə/
  4. realised
  5. had climbed → /ə/
  6. was sitting → /ə/
  7. had also failed → /ə/
  8. was beginning → /ə/
  9. overheard
  10. rushed
  11. changed
  12. had been using → /ə/ /ɪ/
  13. told
  14. brought