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A: Can I help you?

B: Yes, I’m looking for a watch. It’s for me.

A: I see. What price are you interested in?

B: The price doesn’t matter. But it must be a gold watch, and automatic. I must have an automatic watch!

A: Hmm … something like this, perhaps. It’s one of our best watches. Made in Switzerland. Fully automatic. With a calendar and …

B: It’s nice … but haven’t you got anything better?

A: Better? Better than this? Well, we have some Orly de luxe watches … probably the best watch in the world. But I’m afraid they’re far more expensive than this one. They cost …

B: Would you show me one, please?

A: Yes, of course. Would you wait here for a moment, please?

Unit 12 Stressed Syllables and Unstressed Syllables

Test 1

Underline the stressed syllable in each word.

Example: sometire some

1. reason resent

2. fish selfish

3. less careless

4. land island

5. refer reference

6. tune fortune

7. full careful

8. parent parental

9. digest(n.) digest(v.)

10. object(n.) object(v.)

Test 2

Listen to the following groups of words. Count the number of syllables. Mark the primary, secondary and weak stress.

Example: inform (2) (• —)

information (4) (–• —•)

1. operate () () operation () ()

2. person () () personality () ()

3. national () () nationality () ()

4. subject () () subjective () ()

5. industry () () industrial () ()

6. major () () majority () ()

7. incident () () incidental () ()

8. occupy () () occupation () ()

9. product () () production () ()

10. converse() () conversation () ()

Listen and repeat the following words. Pay attention to the stressed syllables.

words stressed at the beginning:

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