Answer — Exercise 3
3.1·Speakout Upper-Intermediate - Workbook
Question
- Complete the news story with the correct form of the verbs in the box. There may be more than one possibility.
- 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)
- had been feeling / had felt
- seemed / had seemed
- was explaining
- realised
- had climbed
- was sitting
- had also failed / also failed
- was beginning / had begun
- overheard
- rushed
- changed
- had been using / had used
- told
- brought
b)
- had been feeling → /ə/ /ɪ/
- seemed
- was explaining → /ə/
- realised
- had climbed → /ə/
- was sitting → /ə/
- had also failed → /ə/
- was beginning → /ə/
- overheard
- rushed
- changed
- had been using → /ə/ /ɪ/
- told
- brought