B:2a Listento the minimal pair sentences. c and n;zud Listento six of the sentences write I for lrcl (soundl) or 2 for leel (sound 2). e;zae sentencestress againand underlinethe sentence Listento the minimal pair sentences stress(on page73). EXAMPLEHow do you spell'hear'? szs f Tick the wordsa) or b) that you hear in the sentences. | 74 UNIT 21 ea chair Minimal pair sentences B 2a c Listen to the minimal pair sentences. B72b d Listen to six of the sentences and write 1 for ia sound 1 or 2 for ea sound 2 . B72a e Sentence stress Listen to the minimal pair sentences again and underline the sentence stress on page 73 . EXAMPLE How do you spell hear B73 f Tick the words a or b that you hear in the sentences. 1 a cheers b chairs I I 2 a beer b bear I I 3 a pier Q b pear Q 4 a here O b hair Q 5 a dear Q b Dare O 6 a clear O b Claire O 3 Dialogue a First practise the target sound ea in words from the dialogue. Read the words aloud or visit the website to practise. where there they re pair hair chair Claire square Mary upstairs downstairs everywhere B74 b Listen to the dialogue paying particular attention to the target sound. A pair of hairclips MARY I ve lost two small hairclips Claire. They re a pair. CLAIRE Have you looked carefully everywhere MARY Yes. They re nowhere here. They just aren t anywhere CLAIRE Have you looked upstairs MARY getting impatient Upstairs Downstairs Everywhere They just aren t there CLAIRE Hm Are they square Mary MARY Yes. Why CLAIRE Well you re wearing one of them in your hair MARY Oh Then where s the other one CLAIRE It s over there under that chair. MARY Hm c Practise reading the dialogue aloud. Record your voice to compare your production of the target sound with the recording. UNIT 21 ea chair 75 better - pronounced or silent When there is no vowel following it r is silent. This rule only applies to some speakers of English . in south-east England South Africa Australia. But many native speakers always pronounce r . in southwest England Scotland America. So you may choose to omit this exercise if you are learning a variety of English where r is always pronounced. a Listen and repeat. r not pronounced Claire a pair a square chair r pronounced before a vowel Claire_and Mary a pairof shoes a square envelope b Read these sentences and decide which words have r .
