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1 Listen and repeat.

fortunate advertising marketing productsenergy surroundings insurance attentionmagazine combination absolutely

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2 Listen and underline the words which the speaker stresses.

* Which words in Activity 2 should be stressed?

Now read the passage aloud. Make sure you Stress the words you underlined.

** Have you made a correct prediction?

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You can sell almost a feeling of energy and even passion. It grabs your anything with red. It’s a hot colour, which suggests attention, and can make people buy almost anything. You often see red on magazine covers. But if you use it too much, it looks cheap and may make people tired. And orange has a similar effect to red, it’s upbeat and happy, it suggests pleasant feelings and images. Most people react well to orange, and it’s especially popular in advertising and on packaging for baked food.

Key:

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Stressed words

Remember that in English the stressed words are the ones we consider to be most important in a sentence. Between two stressed words, there may be one or several unstressed syllables, but as the stressed words tend to come at regular intervals, the unstressed syllables can sound compressed, and may be hard to understand.

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Pair work: Stress Maze

Look at the Maze on the next page: draw a line from the entrance arrow to the exit arrow through 3-syllable words with the first syllable stressed. The line can neither jump over any word nor be crossed and overlapped by itself. The person who draws the fastest and correctly wins.

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hamburger police banana student weather

Saturday tomorrow passenger holiday shopping

regular possible yesterday together unhappy

results potato sometimes language river

pronounce tonight painful cinema practice

started promise another government teachers

remember already repeat photograph hospital

Entrance

Exit

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3. Listen and notice the /t/, /d/, /k/ and /p/ sounds in the underlined words. P23

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Remember that when words finish with certain consonants, such as /t/, /d/, /k/ and /p/, they disappear completely or almost completely when the first consonant of the next word is /t/, /s/, /f/, /l/, /m/, /h/ and /D/.

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* Check: can you pronounce the plosions correctly?

Try by yourself before listening to the audio.1. The girl in the re(d) coat was on a bla(ck) bike jus(t) now.

2. The bi(g) bus from the fa(c) tory is full of people.3. Wha(t) time does he get up every morning?4. This is an ol(d) pi(c)ture of a bi(g) car.5. The ol(d) do(c)tor has a ca(t), too.6. We’re going to work on a farm nex(t) Tuesday.7. What would you like, ho(t) tea or bla(ck) coffee?8. It’s a very col(d) day, but it’s a goo(d) day.9. You can put i(t) down in the bi(g) garden.10.I bought a chea(p) book, but it’s a goo(d) book.