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Numbers
- Numbers and prices (700 - 716 - 760, $39 - $39.19 - $39.90...)
- Numbers and times (2 1/2, 2:30, 230...)
Sounds
- The vowel sound /aɪ/ (size, nine, right...) Sample
- Contrasting vowel sounds (1): /aɪ/, /eɪ/ (spine,
fine, brain, vein...)
- Contrasting vowel sounds (2): /e/, /i:/ (Depp - Deep, Pitt - Peet...)
- Similar sounds (wear - there, I'd - ride...)
- Contrasting vowel sounds (3): /ɜ:/,
/ɔ:/ (work - walk, were - wore...)
- Vowel sounds and rhymes (The mountaineer began to cry. Because the mountain was too high.)
- The letter i: /aɪ/, /ɪ/ (like, while, sit, kit...)
Words
- Clothes vocabulary (striped, checked, faded...)
- Country and nationality word stress (Japan - Japanese, Brazil - Brazilian...)
- Word stress in long words (photographer, photographic, herbivorous...)
Phrases and sentences
- Long sentences (The construction of the house is progressing rapidly. I like sitting on the veranda watching the neighbours.)
- Sentence stress (1) (I live in a house in the country.)
- Sentence stress (2): with can and can't (I can go to the meeting. Yes, I can.)
- Sentence stress (3): visiting family (It's
cold. In fact, I prefer to go home in the summer.)
- Strong and weak forms of auxiliary verbs (Have you checked your emails recently? No, I haven't.)
Contractions
- Contracted would (I'd go on holiday
to the Moon. He told me that he'd phone...)
- Contractions and weak forms (I wouldn't listen to him. You should tell him.)
Past
- Regular verbs (want - wanted, decide - decided, live - lived...)
Questions
- Different questions (How are you? Who are you? What's he like? What does he like?)
- Question tags and intonation (You speak German, don't you? Your wife's a doctor, isn't she?)
- Intonation (When does the flight leave? Is it
a good hotel?)
- Rising and falling intonation (Do you work? What do you do?)
Shifting stress
- Clarification and correction (Is that Jenny's
coat? No, it's my coat.)
- Emphasis (What do you think of the new computer?
It's quite fast. It's quite fast.)
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