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Answer — Exercise 10

5.2 - Time well spent?·New Total English Intermediate - Students' Book

Chapter

Exercise

Câu hỏi

Listen to the words in the box. Decide if the underlined letter 'a' is pronounced /æ/ or /eɪ/, and put the words in the correct column.
/a/ is often pronounced /e/, when the pattern is /a/ + consonant + /eɪ/. What other spelling patterns with 'a' make the sound /eɪ/?

Câu trả lời

a)

/æ/

abandoned
album
chapter
character
classic
soundtrack
vampire

/eɪ/

based
danger
page

b)

'ai' → plain, strain
'ay' → play, stay

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