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Listen again and check your answer.

TASK 5. Underline the words that are pronounced with weak form.

1. 
   When are they coming back? When are we to do it?
   
2. 
   Why are they so angry with you?
   
3. 
   You are good at repairing computers, aren’t you?
   
4. 
   We are having a house built across the road.
   
5. 
   Perhaps you can dump them down somewhere for me.
   
6. 
   You could put the dog on the lead before you got to the main road.
   
7. 
   It must have been rather trying, all things considered.
   
8. 
   He must have had a little stroke before this, I suppose.
   
9. 
   You must do it right away. They must have done it a week ago.
   
10. 
    Why must we help them if they’re unwilling? Why must we cancel it?
    
11. 
    Yes, I would, but don’t misunderstand me…
    
12. 
    But I’ve always found it a very happy place.
    
13. 
    But surely that’s what we mean by a happy place.
    
14. 
    But then surely, that’s a miserable place.
    
15. 
    But when I was just about to make a dash for it.
    
16. 
    This time it was the one about the parrot that played the piano.
    
17. 
    But that was all I could remember.
    

Lesson 21

Syllable formation and syllable division



Lead in

Write the number of syllable next to the words. How many syllables are there in these words?