Help with Listening In sentences we say many «.mall words with a schwa /e/ sound. These are called weak forms.
a) R2.9Listen to the difference between the strong and weak forms of these words.
strong
weak
and
/send/
/en/
to
/tu:/
/te/
of
~/ov/
/av/
the
/di:/
/de/
R2.8 look at R2.8, p146. Listen again. Notice the sentence stress and weak forms. Are weak forms ever stressed?
Help with Vocabulary Connecting words
a) Look at sentences 1-5. Then fill in the gapsin the rules with the words in bold.
The King found' his wife with another man so he killed her.
The King didn’t kill Shahrazad so/because he couldn’t live without her.
Shahrazad wasn’t sure the King loved her because/until he married her a second time.
a) Work in pairs. Choose a story youboth know. Make notes on these things.