Introducing new terminology
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Task 5
Microskills: Weak forms of function words
5.1 CD2: 4 Listen to the following pairs of sentences. What is the difference in the pronunciation of the bold words in each pair? What might explain this difference?
1. a. What time does the train leave? b. I’m not sure why he’s late. He does know about the meeting. a. Some researchers have taken a different approach. b. We’ve just got time for some questions. a. It was heated to 150°C for ten minutes. b. There are arguments for and against GM crop trials. a. I’m not sure what you’re getting at. b. There were at least five errors in the programme. a. Increasingly, small memory devices can store large amounts of data. b. Well, I can do it, but I don’t want to. a. Oh, are they going to interview us as well as the students? b. Can you tell us what you’ve found?
2. 3. 4. 5. 6.
5.2 Look back at the words in bold in Ex 5.1. Normally these words are unstressed.
Why has the speaker chosen the stressed form in certain sentences?
In the following extract from the lecture about market research, the lecturer is discussing the advantages and disadvantages of using multiple-choice questions.
Study tip
Many function words, such as conjunctions, articles, prepositions and auxiliary verbs, are difficult to hear when they are unstressed.
5.3 CD2: 5 Listen and complete the extract with three to five words in each space. In each case, at least one of the missing words is a function word.
Multiple-choice questions – dead easy. They reduce interviewer bias; very easy for people to … very easy and fast for people to answer; very . But the argument goes that
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they are rather difficult to design. The thing about multiple-choice questions is that people into certain answers. This is a . If you have a multiple-choice
question and you pilot it, you may find that people are not, they don’t put the issue that you’re asking them into that particular that you’ve imposed. So that’s where will help. Let me just show you an example of this.
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